Every year since 1911, Wabash College has played rival DePauw University in a football game called the Monon Bell Classic.

The Greek system has a unique role at Wabash.

The first fraternity appeared at Wabash in 1846 and has been on campus continuously since.

The original Wabash Herald continues and has been called the Parke County Sentinal since 1977.

North of Fulton, Wabash Township has the town of Coal Creek.

Panther Fork, a tributary of the Little Wabash, Wabash and Ohio Rivers has its origin just over the ridge.

The largest commercial area in West Lafayette is the Wabash Landing / Levee area, which has become a thriving urban-type district since the entire area was reconstructed and the Pedestrian Bridge to Lafayette replaced the old State Street bridge.

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He has also served as a board member for Kerr McGee Corporation, Wabash National Corporation, and Duke Realty.

While Al Capone was in charge of the Chicago Outfit it has been reported that some members of organization would take the train from Chicago to Wabash County, Illinois and stay at a remote hotel called the Grand Rapids Hotel on the Wabash River next to the Grand Rapids Dam.

The Kansas State University Marching Band says that " the Wabash Cannonball has come to represent the survival of the underdog in the hearts and minds of all true K-State fans, and has earned a secure place in the KSUMB's history and traditions.

The new Amtrak service used the old Wabash station, which still stands and has become an antique store.

" An Indiana newspaper compared the song in popularity to " Swannee River " and wrote of the song, " Mr. Dresser ... has endeavored to perpetuate the beauties of the Wabash as did Stephen Foster that of the Suwanee River, and certainly no song since the latter has awakened so much interest among lovers of a good song, nor has any other American author seemed as capable of filling the void left vacant by Foster.

The song has since eclipsed " On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away " in public use.

Schneider has teamed up with Wabash National to provide the company with its 40, 000 trailers.

After undergoing restoration, one half of this bar has been installed in a new tavern that occupies the former Frog's Bistro across Wabash Avenue from the old hotel.

A $ 3. 5 million project to renovate and expand the Wabash Station, a rail depot built in 1910 and converted into the city's transit center in the mid-1980s, was completed in summer of 2007.

In the summer of 2010, Wabash reconstructed Mud Hollow and Byron P. Hollett Stadium to provide the football, soccer, baseball and intramural teams with better athletic facilities.

Several new hotels and businesses have been added to the " Crossroads of America " near 7th & Wabash and outdoor events and festivals are area attractions nearly every weekend during the summer months.

Merom's two main attractions are the Bluff Park overlooking the Wabash River and the farm fields of Illinois and the Merom Conference Center, A retreat, conference center and summer camp of the Indiana-Kentucky Conference of the United Church of Christ.

At the time of her diagnosis in the summer of 1954, Vanauken had just resigned to accept a job offer from his alma mater, Wabash College, but asked Lynchburg to rehire him in order to stay near Davy's doctors, which they did.

He met the challenge and gave thorough study to the " liberal arts program " at Wabash.

OLAB is a co-ed program going into its 39th year at Wabash.

At ABC, he covered such events as baseball games, the 1986-1987, college basketball, Indianapolis 500, the 1977 Monon Bell game between DePauw University and Wabash College, five Olympics, as well as the program Wide World of Sports.

These include Wabash College, Kenyon College, Bethany College, The Catholic University of America, Maryville College, Occidental College, The Criswell College, Reed College, The University of the South, Eckerd College, Millsaps College, Hanover College, Wabash College, Rosemont College, Texas A & M-Commerce Honors College, The University of Virginia's Politics Honors Program ,, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham's Mass Communications program.

New Orleans supplied the goods for the trade on the Mississippi, and west of that river, and on the Ohio and Wabash.

They had initially selected the land near the Wabash River for its isolation and opportunity for expansion, but the Harmonites were now a great distance from the eastern markets and trade in this location wasn't to their liking.

Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana, US.

Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School in Crawfordsville was named in 1906 and Tuttle Middle School in 1960, became President of Wabash College in 1862 and served for 30 years.

Voted " Indiana's Best College Sports Rivalry " by viewers of ESPN in 2005, DePauw University and Wabash College play each November — in the last regular season football game of the year for both teams — for the right to keep or reclaim the Monon Bell.

* November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.

It was named for Revolutionary War hero, Gen. Charles Scott, who led the Kentucky Militia at the disastrous Battle of the Wabash in 1791.

The new county was named for Major General Richard Butler, who died at the Battle of the Wabash in 1791.

The name " Wabash " is an English spelling of the earlier French name for the river, Ouabache.

The Vermillion River, for which the county was named, enters from Illinois to the west and crosses the county to empty into the Wabash River near Cayuga.

Its early identity was as an agricultural and pork-packing center and as a port on the then-navigable Wabash River for steamboats and other river-craft.

Golden Gate was built along the railroad tracks and the Little Wabash river for business needs.

The Wabash Railway Company, which built a stretch of the LM & B through Illinois, originally wanted to construct a railway switch at a site known as Weaver City, a small town just west of Ambia in Vermilion County, Illinois ; the owner of the property, however, refused to grant land for it.

The Station was a stop for the 104-mile stagecoach route that ran from Falls Cities to the Wabash River.

Local tradition says the town was named for its first settler, a Spanish laborer working on the Wabash and Erie Canal who built a shack in the area.

The Heyday for the Wabash & Erie Canal was mid 1850s and the canal was closed to traffic around 1870.

Like many other communities along the Lower Wabash Valley, the Owensville Area is particularly known for its watermelons, cantaloupes, and zucchini, all heavily produced in the bottoms located from the north to the southwest of the town.

Inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples, in historic times, native groups were the Shawnee, Wabash, Miami tribe, among those in the Wabash confederacy.

Because the Wabash post was so remote, however, Vincennes had a hard time getting trade supplies from Louisiana for the native nations, who were also being courted by British traders.

It is home to Wabash College, which was ranked by Forbes as # 12 in the United States for undergraduate studies in 2008.

In 1862, Joseph F. Tuttle, after whom Tuttle Grade School was named in 1906 and Tuttle Junior High School ( now Tuttle Middle School ) was named in 1960, became President of Wabash College and served for 30 years.