October 15, 1966 Angel Mounds near Evansville is added to the National Register of Historic Places.

October 18, 1954 The Regency TR-1, the first transistor radio, begins production in Indianapolis.

October 20, 1900  Zaharakos Candy Shop opened in Columbus.  Still in business, the store features a soda fountain from the 1904 World’s Fair, Tiffany-style stained glass, and coin-operated music machines from a century ago.

October  21, 1794 The U.S. Army moves into a new stockade fort named for General Anthony Wayne.  It grows to become Indiana’s second largest city.

Our Where in Indiana? from last week was taken at the Jasper county courthouse in Rensselaer.

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Indiana Statehouse Tour Office

Indiana Department of Administration

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Indiana Quick Quiz

1. What is the Beast of ‘Busco?

2. Where in Indiana, during the last week of October and the first week of November, can you see 12,000 sandhill cranes, as they stop on their way south for the winter?

3. In which Indiana city was foot care pioneer, Dr. William Scholl born?

4. Which Indiana city is known as the Casket Capital of the World?

Answers Below

Did You Know???

A law was passed in 1923 in South Bend, making it illegal to force a monkey to smoke a cigarette.

Answers

1. A 400 pound turtle, the size of a dining room table. The turtle named Oscar, was said to have been seen in a lake in Churubusco, in 1949.

2. Jasper-Pulaski State Fish and Wildlife Area

3. LaPorte

4. Batesville