The Gas Boom of East Central Indiana

The Gas Boom of East Central Indiana
Author: James A. Glass
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738539638

One of the most dramatic eras in Indiana history, the natural gas boom in the east central region transformed a mostly agricultural area into a major industrial center. The discovery of natural gas created major cities in the place of county seat towns, boomtowns where there had been villages, and factories towering over former farm land. The impact of the boom lived on even after gas itself failed. Through a collection of vintage images, authors James A. Glass and David G. Kohrman provide an overview of the boom era and its legacy in the four county seats of the gas belt: Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo, and Marion, as well as smaller communities such as Elwood, Fairmount, and Gas City.

Gas Boom of East Central Indiana

Gas Boom of East Central Indiana
Author: James a. Glass
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2005-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781531623623

One of the most dramatic eras in Indiana history, the natural gas boom in the east central region transformed a mostly agricultural area into a major industrial center. The discovery of natural gas created major cities in the place of county seat towns, boomtowns where there had been villages, and factories towering over former farm land. The impact of the boom lived on even after gas itself failed. Through a collection of vintage images, authors James A. Glass and David G. Kohrman provide an overview of the boom era and its legacy in the four county seats of the gas belt: Muncie, Anderson, Kokomo, and Marion, as well as smaller communities such as Elwood, Fairmount, and Gas City.

Guide to Indiana's Historic Sites – East Central Edition

Guide to Indiana's Historic Sites – East Central Edition
Author: Paul R. Wonning
Publisher: Mossy Feet Books
Total Pages: 223
Release:
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1311951539

Take a fun tour through the rich history of Indiana using East Central Indiana Day Trips as your guidebook. This tourism guide will help visitors find all the historical treasures in east central Indiana. Take a fun tour through the rich history of Indiana using Southwest Indiana Day Trips as your guidebook. This tourism guide will help visitors find all of the historical treasures in south central Indiana. East Central Indiana Cities and Towns East Central Indiana has some wonderful cities and towns ranging from charming small towns like Liberty, Greenfield and Shelbyville to the larger cities like Richmond and Muncie. Each of these towns and cities has many things to do for your family as it explores the regions roads and highways. East Central Indiana Wineries Southwest Indiana has several interesting wineries that produce some fascinating wines. East Central Indiana State and Local Parks From parks along the Ohio River to wonderful woodland hikes, the parks in Southwest Indiana include four state parks, several nature preserves and some relaxing local parks. These provide some great day trips for people to explore to hike, picnic or just plain enjoy nature. They provide fun things to do in Southwest Indiana. East Central Indiana Museums and Historic Sites Explorers in the area can stage a day trip to learn the region's rich history by visiting the museums and markers located in the various cities and towns of East Central Indiana. Many host interesting family events that are fun and educational. The counties included in this historical travel book include: Delaware County Fayette County Hancock County Henry County Jay County Madison County Randolph County Rush County Shelby County Union County Wayne County tourism, road trip, day trip, travel guide, guidebook, local, historical markers, travel

Energy in American History

Energy in American History
Author: Jeffrey B. Webb
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1315
Release: 2024-05-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Contextualizes and analyzes the key energy transitions in U.S. history and the central importance of energy production and consumption on the American environment and in American culture and politics. Focusing on the major energy transitions in U.S. history, from the pre-industrial era to the present day, this two-volume encyclopedia captures the major advancements, events, technologies, and people synonymous with the production and consumption of energy in the United States. Expert contributors show how, for example, the introduction of electricity and petroleum into ordinary American life facilitated periods of rapid social and political change, as well as profound and ongoing impacts on the environment. These developments have in many ways defined and accelerated the pace of modern life and led to vast improvements in living conditions for millions of people, just as they have also brought new fears of resource exhaustion and fossil-fuel induced climate change. Today, as America begins to move beyond the use of fossil fuels toward a greater reliance on renewables, including wind and solar energy, there is a pressing need to understand energy in America's past in order to better understand its energy future.

Electric Indiana

Electric Indiana
Author: Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2023-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0253067146

In the early twentieth century, an epic battle was waged across America between the interurban railway and the automobile, two technologies that arose at roughly the same time in the late 1890s. Nowhere was this conflict more evident than in the Midwest, and specifically Indiana, where cities of industry such as Indianapolis, Gary, and Terre Haute were growing faster every day. By 1904, Indianapolis had opened the Traction Terminal, which was widely acclaimed to be the largest and most impressive interurban station in the world. Yet, today there is only 90-mile remnant of this one great system still operating within Indiana. Featuring over 90 illustrations and featuring contemporary accounts and newspaper articles from the period, Electric Indiana is a biographical study of the rise and fall of a onetime important transportation technology that achieved its most impressive development within the Hoosier state.

Indiana

Indiana
Author:
Publisher: PediaPress
Total Pages: 445
Release:
Genre:
ISBN:

Hillbilly Highway

Hillbilly Highway
Author: Max Fraser
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2023-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691250294

The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social consequences Over the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, as many as eight million whites left the economically depressed southern countryside and migrated to the booming factory towns and cities of the industrial Midwest in search of work. The "hillbilly highway" was one of the largest internal relocations of poor and working people in American history, yet it has largely escaped close study by historians. In Hillbilly Highway, Max Fraser recovers the long-overlooked story of this massive demographic event and reveals how it has profoundly influenced American history and culture—from the modern industrial labor movement and the postwar urban crisis to the rise of today’s white working-class conservatives. The book draws on a diverse range of sources—from government reports, industry archives, and union records to novels, memoirs, oral histories, and country music—to narrate the distinctive class experience that unfolded across the Transappalachian migration during these critical decades. As the migration became a terrain of both social advancement and marginalization, it knit together white working-class communities across the Upper South and the Midwest—bringing into being a new cultural region that remains a contested battleground in American politics to the present. The compelling story of an important and neglected chapter in American history, Hillbilly Highway upends conventional wisdom about the enduring political and cultural consequences of the great migration of white southerners in the twentieth century.

Indiana's Historic National Road

Indiana's Historic National Road
Author: Alan E. Hunter
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738560557

The Indiana National Road Association hopes the photographs and stories within this book will give readers an appreciation for the 200-year past of the Historic National Road, often called "The Road that Built the Nation." This federally designated All-American Road retains much of the integrity from its early days as a pioneer corridor. It is important for people to learn about these stories and about those who lived and worked along the road so that they can understand more about both themselves and the importance of preserving the highway. This volume looks at the section of the road from Richmond to Indianapolis.

Population Trends

Population Trends
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking and Currency. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Urban Growth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 900
Release: 1969
Genre: United States
ISBN:

Population Trends

Population Trends
Author: United States. Congress. House. Banking and Currency Committee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 906
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN: