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4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) The Monon Railroad ( reporting mark MON ), also known as the Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railway ( reporting mark CIL) from 1897 to 1971, was an American railroad that operated almost entirely within the state of Indiana. The Monon was merged into the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in 1971, and much ...
The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with access from the Great Lakes all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. Over 460 miles long, it was the longest canal ever built in North America. The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and ...
The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a sandstone boundary marker obelisk located near the end of Chicago 's Avenue G, just west of the State Line Generating Plant of Hammond, Indiana. Since 1988 it has been 159.359 miles (256.463 km) north of the Wabash River . The obelisk was constructed by the Office of the United States ...
State Line and Covington Railroad: C&EI: 1877 1877 Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad: State Line and Indiana City Railway: PRR: 1887 1901 South Chicago and Southern Railroad: Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis Railway: NYC: 1889 1915 New York Central Railroad: Syracuse and Milford Railway: 1907 1923 N/A Terre Haute and Alton Railroad: NYC: 1851 1856
The history of Indianapolis spans three centuries. Founded in 1820, the area where the city now stands was originally home to the Lenape (Delaware Nation). In 1821, a small settlement on the west fork of the White River at the mouth of Fall Creek became the county seat of Marion County, and the state capital of Indiana, effective January 1, 1825.
Between 1870 and 1900, Chicago grew from a city of 299,000 to nearly 1.7 million and was the fastest-growing city in world history. Chicago's flourishing economy attracted huge numbers of new immigrants from Eastern and Central Europe, especially Jews, Poles, and Italians, along with many smaller groups.
The history of human activity in Indiana, a U.S. state in the Midwest, stems back to the migratory tribes of Native Americans who inhabited Indiana as early as 8000 BC. Tribes succeeded one another in dominance for several thousand years and reached their peak of development during the period of Mississippian culture.
US Census Bureau map depicting territorial acquisitions, 2007. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the Japanese-ruled Northern Mariana Islands came under control of the United States. [ 1] The United States of America was formed after thirteen British colonies in North America declared independence from the British Empire on July 4, 1776.