Mar 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History, New & Exciting
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus America has a long tradition of citizen soldiers who would organize to protect the community. This goes back to the Pilgrims at Plymouth and the Revolutionary War Minutemen at Lexington and Concord. It became...
Feb 12, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Guest Blog
By Anusha, Crossroads Discovery Center Intern The Future collection, part of the Crossroads Discovery Center collection of digitized resources, contains three editions of the newspaper – published in June, July, and August of 1929. Based in Noblesville, The...
Nov 10, 2025 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian In the past, people have said that William Conner was the first settler of Hamilton County because he established a trading post here in 1802. However, while he had a license to trade with the Native Americans, the fact is...
Sep 16, 2025 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian If you’ve read much Indiana history, you’ve heard about the attempts to build canals and the failures that resulted. One of the classic stories is that of the Central Canal which only now exists in two sections between...
May 19, 2025 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian The railroad known as the Midland was a venture that began in high optimism and then struggled through 110 years of bankruptcies, reorganizations, and mechanical malfunctions. It was organized in 1871 as the Anderson,...
