Crown Hill

Crown Hill
Author: Christina M. Abt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780990551805

We think of a house as a place that we build and shape to reflect who we are. But what if the reverse were also true? What if a house could shape those who enter to reflect its own being? Cross over Crown Hill's welcoming threshold. Enter into this home's caring essence. Meet those who have come to define its one hundred and fifty year existence. Connect with Mary and Owen Southwick within their 1880's Crown Hill life, Experience the details of the Southwicks' tumultous marriage that leads to their spiritual destiny. Move forward into the new century with the 1908 Crown Hill arrival of the Randall Family. Patriarch Edward Randall is a renowned Buffalo, New York attorney, yet his lingering involvement with the spirit world disquiets his family and disrupts Crown Hill's tranquility. Fall into Meg Flynn's Crown Hill life spanning the 21st century. Meg is a newly divorced woman beginning again but what are the details of her past that she has never known and which Crown Hill persistently reveals? Become part of the fabric of Crown Hill as woven by those who have cherished it as their home, as shared by the one who knows their stories best...Crown Hill.

Crown Hill Cemetery

Crown Hill Cemetery
Author: W. C. Madden
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738532509

Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery is noted for its unique beauty and historic significance. Dedicated on June 1, 1864, the cemetery, at more than 555 acres, is the final resting-place to over 185,000 citizens and is one of the most historically significant areas in the city. Many of the country's great leaders, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and artists are buried within the cemetery's confines including: President Benjamin Harrison, Col. Eli Lilly, and the infamous John Dillinger, to name just a few. Within these pages of vintage photographs, the history and beauty of Crown Hill Cemetery is revealed. Author W.C. Madden examines such structures as the inspiring Waiting Station and Gothic Chapel, both of which were built in the 1800s. He also details the ground's viscerahl history exemplified by the National Cemetery, dedicated to those who served our country, and the Confederate lot on the cemetery's south grounds.

Crown Hill

Crown Hill
Author: Douglas A. Wissing
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Indianapolis
ISBN: 9780871953018

Listed on the national register of historic places in 1973, Crown Hill cemetery has been a vital part of the Indianapolis community dating back to its first interment, Lucy Ann Seaton, on June 2, 1864. since then, Crown Hill has grown from a "rural cemetery" into the nation's third largest private cemetery and is a community treasure that serves a broad range of needs and stands as a monument to the memories of hundreds of famous Hoosiers and the thousands more who selected Crown Hill as their final resting place. Published by the Indiana Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Crown Hill Heritage Foundation, Crown Hill examines the cemetery's complete history and places its story in the larger historical context of the development and growth of american landscape architecture. In addition, the book includes vignettes of the famous families and individuals buried and/or entombed at Crown Hill and numerous photographs.

Where They're Buried

Where They're Buried
Author: Thomas E. Spencer
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 635
Release: 1998
Genre: Cemeteries
ISBN: 0806348232

This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.

Report

Report
Author: Indiana. Adjutant General's Office
Publisher:
Total Pages: 852
Release: 1868
Genre:
ISBN:

Report

Report
Author: Indiana. Dept. of Geology and Natural Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1914
Genre: Botany
ISBN:

The 15th report covers the years 1885-86.

Road Trip

Road Trip
Author: Andrea Neal
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0871953951

The bicentennial of Indiana’s statehood in 2016 is the perfect time for Hoosiers of all stripes to hit the road and visit sites that speak to the nineteenth state’s character. In her book, Andrea Neal has selected the top 100 events/historical figures in Indiana history, some well-known like George Rogers Clark, and others obscured by time or memory such as the visit of Marquis de Lafayette to southern Indiana. These highly readable essays and photographs that accompany them feature a tourist site or landmark that in some way brings the subject to life. This will enable interested Hoosiers to travel the entire state to experience history at firsthand. Related activities and sites include nature hikes, museums, markers, monuments, and memorials. The sites appear in chronological order, beginning with the impact of the Ice Age on Indiana and ending with the legacy of the bicentennial itself.