Apr 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History, New & Exciting
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Emeritus When you look at the history of inventors in Hamilton County, occasionally a long-forgotten figure will emerge. One such person was R. Walter Wilson, known as Walter or just R.W. He was born in 1873 to a Quaker...
Apr 13, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Guest Blog, New & Exciting
By Anusha, Crossroads Discovery Center Intern “Oh, it doesn’t bother me to tell my age. I think I’m 84. I was born in 1898. Would that be right?” (Audrey Haworth in Interview by Lois Kaiser Customoris) Born in Aroma, Indiana, on June 20th, 1898, to Olive “May”...
Mar 20, 2026 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
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...
