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  Crawfordsville, Indiana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County, Indiana, United States.
Crawfordsville was named in honor of Colonel William H. Crawford.
Amtrak Train 50, the eastbound Cardinal, is scheduled to depart Crawfordsville at 10:15pm on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday with service to Indianapolis, Connersville, Cincinnati, Maysville, South Portsmouth, Ashland, Huntington, Charleston, Montgomery, Thurmond, Prince, Hinton, Alderson, White Sulphur Springs, Clifton Forge, Staunton, Charlottesville, Culpeper, Manassas, Alexandria, and Washington, DC, before continuing on to New York City.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crawfordsville,_Indiana   (569 words)

  
 Montgomery County Visitors & Convention Bureau
When you are planning your visit to Crawfordsville, Indiana we invite you to enjoy our General Lew Wallace Study and Museum, where General Lew Wallace wrote his famous novel Ben-Hur.
Located 47 miles northwest of Indianapolis, Crawfordsville is an easy drive on Interstate 74 and less than three hours from Chicago on Interstate 65.
Founded as a town in 1834, Crawfordsville is home to Wabash College, a private, all-male, liberal arts college with an immaculate campus gracing Crawfordsville's west end.
www.crawfordsville.org   (326 words)

  
 History of Crawfordsville - Crawfordsville
Crawfordsville's growth in the nineteenth century came from its position as the county seat.
Crawfordsville and Montgomery County is bustling all year long with festivals and sporting events including the Strawberry Festival in May, the Covered Bridge Festival, several ASA qualifier softball tournaments just to name a few.
Crawfordsville is full of quite tree lined street and neighborhoods, low crime rates and strong family values.
www.neighborhoodlink.com /genpage.html?nid=5628229&nneighid=588760657&nsupercity=588760657   (884 words)

  
 Indiana Historical Society
Writing to his wife back home in Crawfordsville about his plans for the future, he told her that he was sure he would not be going back to his old law practice, terming it "the most detestable of human occupations." Instead, he dreamed of building a study where he could "write, and.
In 1941, however, the Community House, an organization established by the women of Crawfordsville, purchased the study and grounds from Lewis Wallace, the general's grandson, and presented the property to the city for use as a memorial to Wallace's life.
The three and a half acres of grounds surrounding the study include a bronze statue of Wallace, which is a duplicate of the one in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The statue is west of the study and stands in place of a beech tree under which Wallace wrote much of Ben-Hur.
www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/wallace.html   (640 words)

  
 Crawfordsville (Indiana)
Assemblage slabs of "Crawfordsville crinoids" adorn the walls of many museums and are a common element in many university teaching collections.
Yale's holdings from Crawfordsville, Indiana are some of the Peabody's oldest acquisitions and its historically most significant material.
The Crawfordsville fauna (crinoids, sponges, trilobites) is preserved in iron pyrite; a by-product of the deltaic environment of the Mississippian Edwardsville Formation.
www.yale.edu /ypmip/locations/crawford.html   (73 words)

  
 Indiana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Indiana also claims many famous Fijis, from noted authors to politicians, including three governors of Indiana and two US vice-presidents.
Phi Gamma Delta's second chapter in Indiana was chartered at Hanover College in 1864.
Governor of Indiana 1909-1913 and US Vice President 1913-1921, Thomas R. Marshall (Wabash 1872) was a regular speaker at Phi Gam events throughout his life.
www.phigam.org /history/Sites/indiana.htm   (899 words)

  
 Montgomery County, Indiana History and Genealogy Research Guide and Links
Crawfordsville, Montgomery County with a brief history from 1813, and links to local museums and sites.
The Ben Hur Museum in Crawfordsville, IN - "...The Ben-Hur Museum was built by General Lew Wallace for use as his private library and a quiet place where he could write..." This site includes an Historical Sketch of Lewis (Lew) Wallace (1827-1905).
Lewis Wallace was born in Brookville, resided in Covington, Fountain County, and moved to Crawfordsville, IN in 1853.
home.att.net /~Local_History/Montgomery-Co-IN.htm   (690 words)

  
 Crawfordsville Crinoids
Crawfordsville Crinoids Structure Study: Cyathocrinites iowensis (Family Cyathocrinidae - left) with Platycrinites saffordi stem (right); the stem served two main functions: (1) placing the crown into the water column to filter out food particles, and (2) anchoring the crinoid in the substrate
This is a fine example of the variety of diverse crinoids to be found in the Crawfordsville deposits.
Museum-quality is probably an understatement for this exquisite crinoid plate from the famous Crawfordsville beds.
www.fossilmuseum.net /Fossil_Galleries/Crawfordsville_Crinoid_Gallery/Crawfordsville_crinoids.htm   (681 words)

  
 Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - Maurice Thompson
Maurice Thompson was born on September 9, 1844, to Grigg and Diantha (Jalgger) Thompson in Fairfield, Indiana.
In fact, like many of his peers, Thompson believed that the wetlands of west central Indiana were actually responsible for negative effects on the residents.
There lies in the State of Indiana an area of a few square miles which is, perhaps, deserving of as much historical honor as any space its size in America.
www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/thompsonm.html   (1433 words)

  
 Crawfordsville News
Police and health care professionals in Indiana are meeting here on Tuesday to learn more about how to spot trends in illegal trafficking and abuse of prescription drug medication, along with combating the rise...
Every autumn people flock to the Indiana back roads to enjoy the changing foliage and the local harvest festivals.
A consortium of agencies that find employment for people with disabilities paused from their efforts Thursday morning to honor nearly 20 companies in Greater Lafayette and the surrounding area that hire their...
www.topix.net /city/crawfordsville-in   (692 words)

  
 Crawfordsville Crinoids
What is most noteworthy about the Crawfordsville crinoids is the size of the calices, with some approaching and even exceeding 10 cm in length, rendering them most appealing to collectors.
The first crinoid calyx collected from the Crawfordsville, Indiana area was by 9 year old Horace Hovey in 1842, who was collecting "encrinites" along the banks of Sugar Creek for sale.
Seafloor conditions in the Crawfordsville area were obviously vary favorable to the proliferation of crinoids, an environment that had both shallow water conditions and an influx of silt from a neighboring delta.
www.fossilmall.com /Science/Sites/Crawfordsville/Crawfordsville.htm   (490 words)

  
 Crawfordsville Indiana Historic Structures
Crawfordsville's history dates back to 1813 when three rangers, Williamson Dunn, Henry Ristine and Major Ambrose Whitlock noted it as an ideal spot for a settlement.
Crawfordsville was laid out in March, 1823 by Major Whitlock, incorporated as a town in 1834, and declared county seat in 1822.
Crawfordsville is also home to Wabash College, founded in 1832.
www.preserveindiana.com /pixpages/c_ville.htm   (592 words)

  
 LOIS PATRICIA PHILON PAPERS, 1970-1987
She was the director of the League of Women Voters of Indiana (1968-70), a lobbyist at the Indiana General Assembly (1969-74), chair of the Crawfordsville Commission on the Status of Women (1976), state chair of the Indiana Women’s Political Caucus (1979), and Branch Coordinator for Planned Parenthood, Crawfordsville (1981).
She was director of the Indiana Citizens for Modern Courts of Appeal, Inc., (1969-70), and appointed to the Lew Wallace Study Board of Managers for the City of Crawfordsville in 1980.
Included are maps of Montgomery County and Crawfordsville during the 1970s (folder 1), and campaign posters and pamphlets concerning candidates in state and federal elections.
indianahistory.org /library/manuscripts/collection_guides/M0773.html   (1824 words)

  
 Crawfordsville, Indiana IN, city profile (Montgomery County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Indiana > All counties > Montgomery County > Crawfordsville
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Crawfordsville was $16,945, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Crawfordsville, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $399.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5278   (568 words)

  
 Montgomery County Histories in Microfilm and Microfiche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Title: Atlas of Montgomery co., Indiana; to which are added various general maps, history, statistics, illustrations, &c.
Title: A portrait and biographical record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain counties, Indiana, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States.
Title: Standard atlas of Montgomery county, Indiana; including a plat book of the villages, cities and townships of the county; map of the state, United States and world...
www.statelib.lib.in.us /www/isl/indiana/histories/montgomery.html   (733 words)

  
 Our Land, Our Literature: Literature - Caroline V. Krout
Caroline Krout was a lifelong Hoosier author whose writing focuses on the countryside surrounding her Crawfordsville, Indiana, home.
Born in 1852 in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Caroline Virginia Krout wrote only four novels during her literary career.
Unfortunately, her work only troubled her more after she learned that Maurice Thompson, a fellow Crawfordsville author, was writing a book about the same topic and time period.
www.bsu.edu /ourlandourlit/Literature/Authors/kroutcv.html   (1117 words)

  
 Raybestos Products to Get Out of Steel Stamping Business - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
RPC will begin transitioning the steel stamping business to outside suppliers and move the related heavy-duty paper assembly plant to a location near an outside supplier during the fourth quarter of 2005.
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind--Oct. 4, 2005--Raytech Corporation (NYSE: RAY) announced today that it has completed the previously announced closing of its former corporate office located in Shelton, Connecticut.
Raytech Corporation, headquartered in Crawfordsville, Indiana, operates manufacturing facilities in the United States, Germany and China as well as technology and research centers in Indiana and Germany.
www.insideindianabusiness.com /newsitem.asp?id=15360   (484 words)

  
 Crawfordsville Real Estate Agents, Crawfordsville Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Crawfordsville
We also have information on Crawfordsville home selling, home buying and mortgages, movers and other realty services for anyone looking to sell a home or buy a home in Crawfordsville, IN.
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www.loopnet.com /xNet/MainSite/ContentIndexPages/Indiana/Crawfordsville   (347 words)

  
 Crawfordsville, Indiana, Outdoors Recreation
There are plenty of outdoors activities near Crawfordsville, Indiana if you know where to look.
Rattlesnake Creek, Indiana, CR-275 W to Offield Monument Road
Crawfordsville Country Club, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 1 miles away
www.hikercentral.com /metros/18820.html   (745 words)

  
 Two Indiana Banks to Merge - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick
The transaction will allow MainSource to establish a presence in several additional markets and four additional Indiana counties: Crawfordsville, which is in Montgomery County, Covington, which is in Fountain County, Williamsport, which is in Warren County and Lafayette, which is in Tippecanoe County.
Alan will become Chairman, President and CEO of the newly formed MainSource Bank in Crawfordsville.” He added, “We are committed to local decision-making and we stand firm on our commitment to our community banking philosophy.
The Association has been headquartered in Crawfordsville, Indiana since its establishment in 1913 and operates six offices located in Montgomery, Fountain, Warren and Tippecanoe Counties.
www.insideindianabusiness.com /newsitem.asp?id=14915   (784 words)

  
 Crawfordsville & Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce - Welcome!
Crawfordsville and Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce - Welcome!
Blessed with a rich and varied history, Crawfordsville and Montgomery County, located on
Known as “the Athens of Indiana” since the early 1900’s for its
www.crawfordsvillechamber.com   (200 words)

  
 Crawfordsville & Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce - Welcome! (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Crawfordsville, the county seat has consistently appeared in rankings of the 100 Best
culture, progressiveness, and abundance of nationally known writers, Crawfordsville today still embodies many of these same qualities.
Crawfordsville’s still vibrant downtown business district, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places,is currently in
www.crawfordsvillechamber.com.cob-web.org:8888   (200 words)

  
 Crawfordsville, Indiana Hotel Deals | Priceline.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Shop and compare Crawfordsville, Indiana hotel deals at priceline for the guaranteed best prices at leading Crawfordsville, Indiana hotels.
Crawfordsville's only full service Holiday Inn Directions: US 231 and I74, exit 34.
Welcome to the Days Inn Crawfordsville, your ideal choice in Crawfordsville Indiana.
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 CheapTickets: Hotel Details
Crawfordsville's only full service Holiday Inn Directions: US 231 & I74, exit 34.
There isn't much in the city of Crawfordsville.
The fact that there was a restaurant was why I stayed there.
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 Crawfordsville Homes for Sale. Real Estate in Crawfordsville, Indiana
Browse Homes.com for Crawfordsville, Indiana homes for sale, Crawfordsville IN Real Estate Agents or real estate agents, plus Crawfordsville, IN apartments and houses for rent.
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