History Blogs
For close to a century, from around 1717 to around 1820, the fur trade powered the economy of the area that would become Hamilton County, as the first known business and the root of all that came afterward.
On September 17, 1864, Noblesville experienced a bloody riot: The Battle of Tappin’s Woodpile.
Thomas Blaine Stanley was a Hamilton County native who began his career hoping to be an artist and ended by being known for his marketing expertise.
Carl G. Fisher was an automobile salesman in Indianapolis who used Hamilton County as a testing ground for some vehicles and gave the local people a look at the future of transportation.
As part of my blog posts about Juneteenth, I’ve mentioned the African American soldiers listed on the monument at ...
This is another part of Hamilton County’s history with steamboats. Many people probably remember the various ...
When you look at the history of inventors in Hamilton County, occasionally a long-forgotten figure will emerge. In 1905, R. Walter Wilson created a system to get steady electrical power from windmills.
In the 1800s, Hamilton County had several attempts at creating militia groups to defend the area.
We think of driverless cars as some of today’s cutting-edge technology, but people have been experimenting with the concept for a long time. One such experiment on a Hamilton County farm in the 1930s attracted national attention.
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