The Story of Indiana In 100 Landmarks

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>America turns 250. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Let's go find the candles.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Looking for a history lesson that doesn't feel like homework? You've found it. At 250history.com the Semiquincentennial Series brings each state's distinctive landmarks to center stage to tell their fast and fun story. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>We've wandered through big cities tiny towns muddy trails and neon-lit highways-uncovering 5000 historic gems along the way.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Semiquincentennial isn't just a mouthful-it's a reminder that history is alive sometimes weird and always waiting to be rediscovered. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Whether you're traveling by road by printed page or by imagination; whether you are a lifelong native or visiting for a week we invite you to explore 100 Indiana landmarks that illuminate the one-of-a-kind story of the Hoosier State. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>National Road... famous buckwheat pancake flour... treaty houses...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Hoosier hysteria... kissing bridges... Indiana plows... Dan Patch... In-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>diana crazy house... communal utopias... water cures... the CCC...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Riley Day... gas boom... the golden age of motoring... art colonies...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Country Place Era... iron horses... fire towers... jewel box banks... trol-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ley parks... Indian boarding schools... The Brickyard... Crossroads</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>of America... King Coal... Athens of the Prairie... Meskers... round</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>barns... atmospheric theaters... Hoosier sheeting... This book will have</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>you telling stories like a native in no time.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The photos and stories collected here are a fast and fun way to learn</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the explanations behind the quirks the traditions and the secrets that</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>make Indiana uniquely Indiana. What Hoosier building was a 19th cen-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>tury disruptor to America's textile industry? Solved. Where was Amer-</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>ica's first municipal sports stadium built? A mystery no more. What as</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>the first union railroad station in America? Identified. What was the</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>first northern town captured by rebels in the Civil War? Revealed. What</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>cause storied Tomlinson Hall to burn in 1958? No one knows.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is a story only Indiana can call its own. A story told in 100 landmarks. Almost all the selections within are open to the public or at least visible from public spaces. So fire up the GPS and see the story of the Hoosier State standing in plain sight on Indiana streets!</span></p><p></p>