He later became the Highway Commissioner for the State of Indiana and was assigned to building a highway from Indianapolis, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky.

Columbus is host to the oldest theater in the State of Indiana, the Crump Theatre, which was built in 1889 by John Crump.

Indiana adopted the nickname " Hoosier State " more than 150 years ago.

* Historic New Harmony of New Harmony, Indiana, administered by the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites.

Both stories, Milan and Crispus Attucks, are memorialized for their accomplishments and tradition at the Indiana State Museum as well as at the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame in New Castle, Indiana.

After the 1997 season ( when Bloomington North won the final single-class State Championship ), the IHSAA controversially did away with the single-class system, ending the run of single-class champions in Indiana.

Smaller schools such as the University of Notre Dame, Indiana State University, Ball State University, Butler University, the University of Evansville, IUPUI, IPFW, and Valparaiso University add to the mix.

* Bonzi Wells, a Muncie, Indiana native, was a four-year letterwinner at Ball State, finishing his career as the Mid-American Conference's all-time leading scorer, and leading the NCAA in steals.

* Led by the legendary French Lick standout Larry Bird, Indiana State was the runner-up in the 1979 NCAA Tournament.

* Indiana State, led by All-American Jerry Newsom, was the 1968 NCAA College Division Runner-up.

* Indiana State won the 1950 NAIA Championship.

* Indiana State was the runner-up in the 1946 and 1948 NAIA championship games.

A member on the Indiana State Sycamores ' team was Clarence Walker, an African-American athlete from East Chicago, Indiana.

** Indiana State finished third in 1953 and fourth in the 1949 NAIA tourney

* In 1936, Indiana State was the runner-up in the U. S. Olympics Trials for basketball.

* Indiana State Police, law enforcement agency of Indiana

In 1886, Landis first ventured into Republican Party politics, supporting a friend, Charles F. Griffin for Indiana Secretary of State.

A similar story involves the National Road, which began in Cumberland, Maryland, and slowly extended westward, reaching Indiana in 1829-1834.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

* His name appears on streets in South Bend and in Stevensville, Michigan ( where Rockne had a summer home ) and a travel plaza on the Indiana Toll Road.

* Northern Indiana Toll Road — $ 1, 790, 000 per mile

These were the Indiana Toll Road, Ohio Turnpike, and New Jersey Turnpike.

Construction of the National Road stopped in 1839, and much of the road through Indiana and Illinois remained unfinished, and was later transferred to the states.

The National Road continued into Indiana along modern U. S. 40, passing by the cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis.

* Indiana National Road Association-National Road in Indiana

* 20px Indiana State Road 42

* 20px Indiana State Road 75

* 20px Indiana State Road 236

* 20px Indiana State Road 240

* 20px Indiana State Road 243

In the United States, for instance, the Kansas Turnpike, Ohio Turnpike, Pennsylvania Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike, most of the Indiana Toll Road, and portions of the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York Thruway, and Florida's Turnpike currently implement closed systems.

Instead, settlers from Ohio and Indiana who had heard of the prairie lands came to occupy them, reaching the Michigan Territory over a branch of the Chicago Road leading from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

* is only long and links I-94 at exit 1 near New Buffalo to State Road 39 north of LaPorte, Indiana.

* 20px Indiana State Road 44

* 20px Indiana State Road 101

* 20px Indiana State Road 227

Indiana State Road 19 and Indiana State Road 28 intersect in the county seat of Tipton.

Other Indiana businesses use Hoosier in the name of their companies: 1 ) Hoosier Racing Tire, manufacturer of racing tires ; and 2 ) Hoosier Bat Company, manufacturer of wood baseball bats.

* May 2 – The first game of Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis, Indiana.

* March 18 – The Tri-State Tornado, the deadliest in U. S. history, rampages through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people and injuring 2, 027.

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* 61 km < sup > 2 </ sup > – Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

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For example, in 1915, Frank S. Betz Co., a medical supply company in Hammond, Indiana, advertised Tincture of Opium, U. S. P., for $ 2. 90 per lb., Tincture of Opium Camphorated, U. S. P, for 85 cents per lb., and Tincture of Opium Deodorized, for $ 2. 85 per lb.

John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was born on June 22, 1903, in the Oak Hill section of Indianapolis, Indiana, the younger of two children born to John Wilson Dillinger ( July 2, 1864 – November 3, 1943 ) and Mary Ellen " Mollie " Lancaster ( 1860 – 1907 ).

U. S. soybean futures, for example, are of standard grade if they are " GMO or a mixture of GMO and Non-GMO No. 2 yellow soybeans of Indiana, Ohio and Michigan origin produced in the U. S. A. ( Non-screened, stored in silo )," and of deliverable grade if they are " GMO or a mixture of GMO and Non-GMO No. 2 yellow soybeans of Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin origin produced in the U. S. A. ( Non-screened, stored in silo ).

* February 2, 1960: Hartford City, Indiana Principal Leonard Redden shot and killed two teachers with a shotgun at William Reed Elementary School in Hartford City, Indiana, before fleeing into a remote forest, where he committed suicide.

Miami went on to lose to the Indiana Pacers 4 – 2 in the Conference Semifinals.

During the 2005 playoffs, they easily defeated the Philadelphia 76ers 4 – 1 and then rallied from a 2 – 1 deficit to finish off the Indiana Pacers, 4 – 2.

However New Jersey won game 2 to tie the series at 1 – 1 heading back to Indiana.

They defeated Reggie Miller and the Indiana Pacers 4 – 2 in the 2000 NBA Finals to win their first title since 1988.

The Mercury then went on to beat the Indiana Fever 3 – 2 in the best of 5 series to capture the second title in their franchise history.

In 1821, Parke County was formed, and on January 2, 1824, the Indiana General Assembly created Vermillion County out of Parke County ; the act took effect on February 1.

Indiana actually has 2 such counties, with nearby Allen County also bordering 9 counties.

The tornado affected Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana killing 695 and injuring over 2, 000.

The town's population did not exceed 2, 000 until after 1887, when the region began to grow because of the Indiana Gas Boom.

The population was 2, 893 at the 2010 census. Delphi is home to Carroll county's largest employer Indiana Packers Corp maker of the famous Indiana Kitchen bacon brand of bacon.