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The Indianapolis, IN Atlas is a full-color street atlas, including: Avon, Beech Grove, Brownsburg, Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Mooresville, Noblesville, Plainfield, Southport, Speedway, Westfield, and Zionsville
Recently named the best city in the country for a college graduate to begin his/her career, Indianapolis is a fantastic city for the young and young at heart professional. This guide is the second edition of the only guide to Indianapolis for the young professional! Whether you are considering the move to Indy, new to the city, or just trying to find better ways to connect to Indy, this book written by a young professional for other professionals will help you plug in and get connected with several different groups, businesses, and organizations of Indianapolis.
(2)On a bright October morning in 1904, thousands of people flocked to Nassau County on rural Long Island to witness the first international motor sports competition in America: the newly created Vanderbilt Cup. By 1906, the number of spectators multiplied to a quarter million and America s place in motor racing history was assured. In 1908, the Vanderbilt Cup was joined by a second international competition, the International Grand Prize, the first grand prix held outside France. By 1913, the Indianapolis 500 would supplant the Vanderbilt Cup and Grand Prize as America's preeminent race, forever turning mainstream America's attention away from road racing and toward the oval tracks then proliferating around the country. Concentrating on the years between 1904 and 1916 and featuring a wealth of photographs, this book examines the early and relatively unknown history of American motor racing. Beginning with an overview of motor racing history, it covers the French origins of the sport and the first international competitions such as the annual Gordon Bennett Cup and the ill-fated Paris to Madrid race. The primary focus is on America's first three races of international stature: the Vanderbilt Cup, the International Grand Prize and the Indianapolis 500. Compiled in great part from contemporary sources such as newspaper accounts and automotive journals, the book covers not only these races, but also the ways in which each spurred development of the American automobile industry, making it at last a true competitor for that of Europe.
Reference Guide to downtown Indianapolis for those living in or thinking of moving to Indianapolis.
(5)The possibility of the paranormal has become prevalent in television and movies in recent years. Now both the novice and the more experienced researcher can investigate haunted sites for themselves. This intriguing account covers everything from high-tech gadgets to inborn psychic abilities while instructing readers on how to locate friendly or not-so-friendly apparitions at haunted locations throughout the area. Numerous sites of criminal activity, suicides, disturbed remains, horrific fires, and tragic accidents abound in Indiana, providing hundreds of opportunities for ghost hunting.
(2)Here, for the first time, curious onlookers and fans of Indiana high school hoops have a book which guides them to and through the Hoosier Hysteria experience. Drawing on years of research and roadtrip miles, author Dale Lawrence visited nearly 400 high school gymnasiums and attended games at over 100 sites to bring you this one-of-a-kind guide to rivalries, school nicknames, little-known traditions, directions to both gyms and traditional pre-and-post game eateries, and more.
(3)Test your Indiana smarts! Indiana Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Indiana. Filled with interesting questions and answers regarding well-known and not so well-known facts about this dynamic state, Indiana Trivia focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the Hoosier State. You’ll discover:
- The highest point in Indiana
- What original member of rock group Van Halen was born in Indiana
- Indiana’s first African-American state senator
- Hoagy Carmichael’s actual first name
- How many Big Ten basketball championships Bobby Knight garnered
- Indiana’s official state bird
- And more!
Designed for use in a wide variety of settings—home, office, school, parties, and more—Indiana Trivia is readily adaptable for use with trivia format games and will provide hours of entertainment and education. It’s perfect for Indiana natives, transplants, and those just passing through, too!
(4)Written by a local author, this guide includes details about hotels, restaurants, annual events, attractions, nightlife, parks and recreation, real estate, and much more.
(1)In "Indiana's Best Restaurants", noted TV personality and columnist Reid Duffy showcases thirty Indiana restaurants which have stood the test of time. All of the restaurants highlighted in this book have been in existence for twenty-five years or more, in some cases for several generations. The book offers a gastronomic Who's Who of the Hoosier State from Phil Smidt's restaurant in Hammond and Tippecanoe Place in South Bend to well-known Indianapolis restaurants such as Acapulco Joe's and Shapiro's to Chez Jean on the outskirts of Indianapolis on down to the Red Geranium in the southernmost part of the state. Duffy gives us a brief history of each restaurant's existence and comments on their best known dishes. Each of the thirty restaurants has provided signature recipes to entice and excite Hoosier palates. Besides the thirty iconic restaurants, Duffy also includes chapters on comfort food restaurants (distinctive inexpensive fast food), well known steak houses, ethnic restaurants, and a list of new restaurants which the author believes are destined to hold up over the years.
(2)Enjoy a welcome change of pace and discover a world you may not know exists in your own backyard. Day Trips describes hundreds of fascinating and exciting (and many free of charge) things to do, most within a two-hour drive of Indianapolis. Explore the gorges, gullies, streams, and waterfalls of Shades State Park in Waveland. Travel back in time aboard the old trains of the Indiana Railway Museum in French Lick. Take a moment to smell the roses at Glen Miller Park in Richmond. Enjoy a simulated moon walk at Science Central in Fort Wayne. Drive through the celebrated covered bridges of Rockville. Each day trip includes travel directions, destination highlights, other places to visit along the way, choice restaurants and lodging (including price ranges), and shopping.
A mini mobile travel guide to Indianapolis, Indiana. Short insider lists of the very best things Indianapolis has to offer: hotels, restaurants, bars, sports, music, museums, parks, trails and shops. Built-in maps and external links. Designed especially for eBook readers. It's the right advice at the right price. More at www.helpmeguides.com.
The Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company was the ultimate survivor of the more than forty smaller companies which organized, struggled to exist, and finally became a part of the actual operating system popularly known as THIE. From its conception in 1907 as the lessee of several existing larger companies, the THIE system became a worthy competitor for the state's other large interurban company, the Union Traction Company of Indiana. While the mileages operated by the two concerns were roughly equal, and continually changing, THIE did outperform UTC in several categories, such as stock hauling and safety (the THIE safety record far out performed UTC's, both if frequency of accidents and number of fatalities). The history records THIE,s growth from a tiny city installation in Brazil to a multi-county system serving areas of large population such as Indianapolis down to tiny Amo and Dunreith. Covered too are city lines in Crawfordsville (and its pitched battle to originally build!) New Castle, Richmond, and Terre Haute, along with the connecting Lebanon and Thorntown Traction as well as a line which started but petered out five miles out of town - the Covington and Southwestern Traction Company. Other subjects covered are the THIE passenger and freight service, despatching practices, stations and terminals, rolling stock rosters, mileage tables, and other necessary ancillary data to round out the line's history.
Featuring 44 of the best hikes in the greater Indianapolis area, this exciting new guidebook points locals and visitors alike to trailheads within an hour's drive of the city.
There is no better way to see America than on foot. And there is no better way to appreciate what you are looking at than with a walking tour. Whether you are preparing for a road trip or just out to look at your own town in a new way, a downloadable walking tour is ready to explore when you are.
Each walking tour describes historical and architectural landmarks and provides pictures to help out when those pesky street addresses are missing. Every tour also includes a quick primer on identifying architectural styles seen on American streets.
There was nothing organic about the founding of Indianapolis. In 1820 the legislature in the original capital at Corydon appointed ten commissioners to select a site for a new capital. They mounted their horses and rode out to the geographic center of the new state of Indiana and designated a swampy spot along the White River to be "Indianapolis." Surveyor E.P. Fordham laid out a square mile plot of land and Alexander Ralston, who had worked on laying out the streets of the first swamp-turned-city, Washington, D.C, three decades earlier, created the street grid. Ralston's plan called for a central circle that the governor would live in and an expensive mansion was constructed in 1827 but having the state's chief executive live smack in the middle of town did not prove practical. No governor ever moved in and the mansion was torn down in 1857. A soaring 284-foot limestone and bronze monument to Indiana's Civil War veterans was placed on the site in 1901 and has been the center of town ever since.
Indianapolis would grow to become the country's largest city not on a navigable river but transportation would prove a key to the town's identity. The National Road began heading west from the Potomac River in Cumberland, Maryland in 1811 and reached Indianapolis in 1830. The railroad arrived in the 1840s and there were so many that the first "union" station in the world was conceived here. America's first beltway was created when railroad tracks were laid around the town. Indianapolis became the major transportation center in the state that fancies itself "The Crossroads of America."
With the advent of the automobile Indianapolis staked its claim as the car capital of the world. The nameplates of Dusenberg, Marmon and Stutz were as well known in the early 1900s as Ford, Chevrolet and Chrysler are today. Eventually the town's remoteness from the supply of raw materials left the playing field to Detroit but the town's automobile legacy was immortalized in 1911 with the building of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The first 500-mile auto race was won by the Marmon, an Indianapolis-built car.
In 1919 the city successfully lobbied Congress to become the home of the newly created American Legion, mostly due to its central location. Five blocks of open space were created and our walking tour will begin at its center...
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(4)The goal of the Indianapolis Colts is to have a franchise continually synonymous with success. Under the supervision of Jim Irsay, the Colts have been one of the NFL's top teams for the past eight seasons. The club has been a regular playoff participant, and the quest of the club was culminated with the Super Bowl XLI title. True Blue chronicles the Colts 2006 journey, a ride that produced a 9-0 start in consecutive regular season for only the second time in NFL history and the club's first world championship in 36 years. True Blue provides editorial and pictorial coverage of the players and staff from the start of the season in New York until the final gun at Miami brought the Super Bowl XLI title. The club's wonderful season is captured in True Blue.
(3)This new guide to Indianapolis for the young (or young at heart) professional answers the following questions: where can one obtain leadership training in Indy? Where can someone get free wi-fi access with a great cup of coffee, and where can one learn about starting a business, or connecting philanthropically. This nearly 200 page guide contains 40-plus categories of information, clubs, groups and organizations for those new to Indianapolis or just want to learn more about how to connect to this great city.
(7)In 1816, the U.S. Congress decided to give the newly formed State of Indiana four square miles of land to lay out a capital city. Just where the capital city would be platted, however, was unknown. Four years later, the spot was finally chosen near where Fall Creek meets the White River. From that moment forward, despite a few bumps along the way, Indianapolis began its development into one of the nation's great cities. Over the course of that development, many buildings, companies, legends, and people have come and gone. While they are now only shadows of the past, they help to form the history and heart of Indianapolis.
