Feb 17, 2025 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Staff Picks For Adults
By Jessica L., Local History and Genealogy Librarian March 2025 will mark one hundred years since Madge Oberholtzer, a woman from Irvington in Indianapolis, was attacked and killed by D. C. Stephenson. Stephenson was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana...
Oct 17, 2024 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian It’s not often that I find a straight-forward ghost story, but while doing some research on another topic, I found an 1899 incident at a house in southwest Noblesville that doesn’t seem to have an explanation. It is...
Sep 19, 2024 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian Noblesville will soon have a professional basketball team, thanks to the Indiana Pacers G-League team moving from Fort Wayne, which makes it worth looking back at the history of the sport in this area. Of course, high...
Aug 20, 2024 | Crossroads Discovery Center, Highlights in History
By David Heighway, Hamilton County Historian I’ve covered early circus activity in Hamilton County before. Pushing it farther back, we have a record of the earliest appearance of a circus or menagerie show in the county. A reminiscence by Augustus Finch Shirts in the...
Aug 9, 2024 | Crossroads Discovery Center
By Ann G., CRDC Assistant Manager Newspapers.com is one of the best benefits of your library card! It is a database of newspapers that have been filmed (digitized) and are searchable by key word, date, and title. The newspapers are from all over the U.S. (and even...
