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Indiana DYKs

• ... that Indiana's Morgan-Monroe State Forest features gold panning? ^{June 8, 2008}
• ... that large sandstone boulders rest atop trees in Yellowwood State Forest (example pictured) and no one knows how they got there? ^{June 6, 2008}
• ... that Hardy Lake is Indiana's smallest reservoir at 741 acres of surface area? ^{June 5, 2008}
• ... that the state of Indiana in 1972 set aside 6,000 acres (2,400 ha) of Hoosier National Forest just for the purpose of reintroducing wild turkey to the Hoosier state? ^{May 31, 2008}
• ... that Indiana's Muscatatuck State Park was the first Indiana state park to need no additional financial assistance, even through it never charged admission? ^{May 27, 2008}
• ... that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service paid for the establishment of Muscatatuck National Wildlife Refuge, along the Muscatatuck River, by selling waterfowl stamps? ^{May 22, 2008}
• ... that a Confederate scouting party entered Indiana in June 1863 dressed as an Union army patrol searching for deserters? ^{May 22, 2008}
• ... that Indiana's state parks were initially designed to preserve their natural state, but gradually began to include recreational activities? ^{May 20, 2008}
• ... that DePauw Avenue Historic District, New Albany, Indiana, was once the summer estate of the man who owned two thirds of the plate glass business of the United States? ^{May 14, 2008}
• ... that 37 people were killed during construction of the Big Four Bridge (pictured) connecting Louisville, Kentucky to Jeffersonville, Indiana across the Ohio River?
• ...that two US Presidents, Thomas Jefferson and William Henry Harrison, are responsible for the layout of the Old Jeffersonville Historic District? ^{April 23, 2008}
• ...that Shelby Place Historic District was begun due to the woodworking industries that revitalized New Albany, Indiana? ^{April 10, 2008}
• ...that New Albany, Indiana's Cedar Bough Place is the only "private street" in a city near Louisville, Kentucky? ^{April 9, 2008}
• ....that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
• ...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866? ^{March 17, 2008}
• ...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis' Military Park can never be sold? ^{March 12, 2008}
• ...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
• ...that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
• ...that the Zouave Guards of Indianapolis volunteered to fight before the American Civil War broke out, but their leader Francis A. Shoup (pictured) switched sides and joined the Confederates before the war began?^{March 6, 2008}
• ...that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis? ^{February 29, 2008}
• ...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.? ^{February 28, 2008}
• ...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts? ^{February 27, 2008}
• ...that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana? ^{February 25, 2008}
• ...that four Indiana counties gave land to create Whitewater Memorial State Park as a memorial to fallen American soldiers of World War II? ^{February 24, 2008}
• ...that Clark State Forest was Indiana's largest Civilian Conservation Corps cantonment? ^{February 23, 2008}
• ...that Caesars Indiana's The Glory of Rome is the largest riverboat in North America, and the largest riverboat casino in the world?
• ...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens? ^{February 7, 2008}
• ...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie? ^{February 6, 2008}
• ...that the construction of the James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home was paid for by the owner's contract to supply hardtack to Union troops in the American Civil War? ^{February 5, 2008}
• ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks? ^{February 4, 2008}
• ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible? ^{February 3, 2008}
• ...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing? ^{February 2, 2008}
• ...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars? ^{February 2, 2008}
• ...that Indianapolis' Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States? ^{February 2, 2008}
• ...that the Indiana Historical Society is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains? ^{January 31, 2008}
• ...that Adam R. Johnson's Newburgh Raid, using two stovepipes, charred wood, a broken wagon, and only 27 men, resulted in the first capture of a northern town in the American Civil War? ^{January 26, 2008}
• ...that no commercial boat has beaten the steamboat Robert E. Lee's 1870 speed record between New Orleans and St. Louis of 90 hours and 14 minutes to this day? ^{January 12, 2008}
• ...that during the American Civil War, Indiana, a Northern state, saw one township secede from the Union? ^{January 9, 2008}
• ...that Indianapolis's Scottish Rite Cathedral is the largest building dedicated to Freemasonry in the United States, and features many measurements in multiples of 33? ^{January 6, 2008}
• ...that New Harmony's Atheneum is named after the ancient Greek temple to the goddess Athena, the Athenaion? ^{December 30, 2007}
• ...that only eight of the planned 296 miles of the Indiana Central Canal were built, due to Indiana being bankrupted by the Panic of 1837? ^{December 14, 2007}
• ...that the establishment of Camp Joe Holt, the first significant act to keep Kentucky from fully seceding to the Confederate States of America, had to be done in Indiana? ^{November 18, 2007}
• ...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?^{November 13, 2007}
• ...that Parke County, Indiana bills itself as the Covered Bridge Capital of the World because it has more covered bridges than any other county in the United States? ^{September 16, 2007}
• ...that slavery existed in Indiana as late as 1840, even though Indiana was always a free state above the Mason-Dixon line, and slavery had been outlawed in the region due to the Northwest Ordinance in 1787? ^{June 5, 2007}
• ...that German-born Richard Lieber, the founder of Indiana state parks, started the trend of American state parks having inns and charging fees for using the parks, so that citizens would appreciate them more? ^{May 20, 2007}
• ...that the Kintner-Withers House's Cedar Farm is the only antebellum plantation in the state of Indiana? ^{November 5, 2006.}
• ...that in 1996 Andy Campbell, a ranger serving as Tunnel Mill Scout Reservation's caretaker, was shot to death by a wandering drunk who trespassed onto the property, the first such incident in the history of Scouting? ^{September 5, 2006}

  Kentucky DYKs

• ... that the L & N Railroad depot in Hopkinsville, Kentucky's commercial district was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to the fact that one could legally purchase alcohol there? ^{June 14, 2008}
• ... that Hopkinsville, Kentucky's tribute to Confederate veterans was a public drinking fountain? ^{June 12, 2008}
• ... that 13 separate churches served the German population of Louisville in the 19th century? ^{June 11, 2008}
• ... that the oldest firehouse still standing in Louisville, Kentucky was once a church? ^{May 30, 2008}
• ... that the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument barely mentioning Sherman's March to the Sea makes it only one of two Civil War related monuments in Kentucky to stress strong Union sentiment? ^{May 28, 2008}
• ... that among the ways the citizens of Danville, Kentucky memorialized Confederate forces locally included givng up their own grave plots? ^{May 27, 2008}
• ... that the Colored Soldiers Monument in Frankfort, Kentucky is the only one dedicated to Black Union soldiers in Kentucky, and only one of four in the United States? ^{May 22, 2008}
• ... that Kentucky's Livermore Bridge starts and ends in McLean County, but passes over two rivers and Ohio County to reach its destination? ^{May 20, 2008}
• ... that the oldest courthouse west of the Allegheny Mountains is in the historic district of Greensburg, Kentucky? ^{May 19, 2008}
• ... that Jimmy Doolittle commanded a 22 plane demonstration celebrating the opening of Henderson, Kentucky's Audubon Memorial Bridge in 1932? ^{May 18, 2008}
• ... that Kentucky's Union County largely supported the Confederacy in the Civil War and built a monument to its Confederate dead afterwards? ^{May 18, 2008}
• ... that the 1911 Confederate Dedication Day ceremony key speakers at the Battle of Tebb's Bend Monument were former Union officers? ^{May 17, 2008}
• ... that the Confederate-Union Veterans' Monument in Morgantown, Kentucky was built due to the feelings of reconciliation following the Spanish-American War? ^{May 17, 2008}
• ... that Union general Stephen G. Burbridge spent many years trying to remove the letters CSA from the Thompson and Powell Martyrs Monument (pictured)? ^{May 16, 2008}
• ... that Ulysses S. Grant sent his family to live in the Licking Riverside neighborhood of Covington, Kentucky in 1862? ^{May 13, 2008}
• ... that Theodore O'Hara's Bivouac of the Dead, popularized in American Civil War memorials, was actually written for fallen Kentucky soldiers in Latin America a decade before the War? ^{May 10, 2008}
• ... that the portrait bust of the Beriah Magoffin Monument in Harrodsburg, Kentucky was built in Neoclassical style, a style more commonly used a century before the monument was constructed?
• ... that Daniel Carter Beard's boyhood home was a nurses' dormitory when it became a National Historic Landmark? ^{May 8, 2008}
• ... that the first public library in Covington, Kentucky was built by its Trinity Episcopal Church?
• ... that the G.A.R. Monument in Covington, Kentucky is the only American Civil War monument in the Bluegrass state shaped like a sarcophagus? ^{May 3, 2008}
• ... that the Veteran's Monument in Covington in Kentucky is the state's only Civil War platform memorial and also the only one referring to that conflict as the "War Between the States"? ^{May 3, 2008}
• ...that the first refuge from malaria that residents of Memphis, Tennessee had in 1878 was Bowling Green's Louisville and Nashville Railroad Station? ^{April 30, 2008}
• ...that the Confederate Monument of Glasgow, Kentucky honors Confederate soldiers of Glasgow and Barren County, Kentucky, who won more Southern Cross of Honors than those from any other Kentucky county? ^{April 27, 2008}
• ...that the Bourbon County Confederate Monument (pictured) is unique for being shaped like a thirty-foot (nine-meter) chimney? ^{March 29, 2008}
• ...that the French once had an outpost called La Belle, where Louisville now stands? ^{March 28, 2008}
• ...that the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky was the first monument to the Confederate States of America in Kentucky, and long believed to be the first one anywhere? ^{March 28, 2008}
• ...that three-foot tall stone slabs were placed every five miles to mark the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee? ^{March 23, 2008}
• ...that when built in 1868, Louisville's Fourteenth Street Bridge was the longest iron bridge in the United States? ^{March 22, 2008}
• ...that the influx of Irish to Louisville (example of Irish-built housing pictured) led to the diminishing of slaves in Louisville by 1860? ^{March 17, 2008}
• ...that the Kentucky Irish American counted among its subscribers Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman? ^{March 17, 2008}
• ...that Basil W. Duke became the chief consul and lobbyist for the L&N Railroad after the American Civil War, even though he led many efforts in destroying their property during the war? ^{February 27, 2007}
• ...that the hiring of Tom Jurich by the University of Louisville was dubbed "the most significant day in the recent history of college sports in Kentucky"? ^{February 27, 2007}
• ...that eighteen fallen Confederate soldiers were moved when the Confederate Monument in Georgetown was dedicated? ^{February 16, 2008}
• ...that the oldest black church in Kentucky is the Second Christian Church in Midway, Kentucky's historic district? ^{February 16, 2008}
• ...that most of the American Civil War events in Midway, Kentucky, including that which the Martyrs Monument in Midway commemorates, involved the stealing of horses?
• ...that Louisville's Union Station was reported to be the largest such facility in the southern United States? ^{February 11, 2008}
• ...that the United States Navy's Naval Ordnance Station in Louisville, Kentucky was chosen due to being so far inland as to prevent enemy airstrikes? ^{January 30, 2008}
• ...that Bullitt's Lick was the first industry and supplier of salt in what is now the Commonwealth of Kentucky? ^{January 28, 2008}
• ...that the Pewee Valley Confederate Memorial 7is the only American Civil War obelisk monument in Kentucky to be made of zinc? ^{January 27, 2008}
• ...that the hollow log pipes of the 1787 Mann's Lick salt furnace allegedly still existed in the 1940s? ^{January 26, 2007}
• ...that over 10,000 people attended the 1876 dedication of the Confederate Monument in Bowling Green, Kentucky? ^{January 25, 2008}
• ...that the Unknown Confederate Soldier Monument in Hart County, Kentucky is unique for being built with geodes, and for honoring a Louisiana soldier who died accidentally by his own rifle?^{January 25, 2008}
• ...that the story of Stephen Foster visiting what is now My Old Kentucky Home State Park may have started in order to raise the sale value of the property? ^{January 21, 2008}
• ...that Queen Elizabeth II was given a Louisville Stoneware musical box at the 2007 Kentucky Derby? ^{January 21, 2008}
• ...that none of Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were ever used, as Louisville was never endangered while they existed? ^{January 21, 2008}
• ..that the St. James-Belgravia Historic District of Louisville, Kentucky, the site of the 1883-87 Southern Exposition, has buildings modeled after London's Belgravia? ^{January 20, 2008}
• ...that the statue of King Louis XVI built in 1829, currently at the Metro Hall in Louisville, Kentucky, was endangered by the Second French Revolution in 1830?
• ...that the traditional song Happy Birthday to You was first sung at the Little Loomhouse of Louisville, Kentucky? ^{January 15, 2008}
• ...that Louisville's Eleven Jones Cave is the only known location for the Louisville cave beetle, Pseudanophthalmus troglodytes? ^{January 15, 2008}
• ...that the Ladies' Confederate Memorial in Lexington, Kentucky was described by Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper as "the most perfect thing of its kind in the South"? ^{January 11, 2008}
• ...that only 10% of the monuments to the American Civil War in Kentucky were dedicated to Union forces, even through the state produced 90,000 Union troops compared to 35,000 for the Confederacy? ^{January 8, 2008}
• ...that the Rowan County War resulted in 20 deaths, talk of dissolving Rowan County, Kentucky, and the founding of what would become Morehead State University? ^{December 27, 2007}
• ...that American Civil War leader William Tecumseh Sherman said, "No single body of men can claim more honor for the grand result than the officers and men of the Louisville Legion"? ^{December 20, 2007}
• ...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"? ^{September 1, 2007}
• ...that the Prussian Nicola Marschall was the designer of the Confederate States of America's first flag, the Stars & Bars? ^{August 29, 2007}
• ...that the United States Marine Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky is considered the best remaining antebellum hospital in the US? ^{May 30, 2007}
• ...that the Louisville Water Tower is the oldest ornamental water tower in the world? ^{May 13, 2007}
• ...that the 32nd Indiana Monument at Cave Hill Cemetery is the oldest surviving monument of the American Civil War? ^{May 11, 2007.}
• ...that the average speed of the contestants in the Great Steamboat Race, held each year before the Kentucky Derby, is only 7 miles per hour? ^{May 2, 2007.}

  Elsewhere

• ... that Edward, Prince of Wales stayed at Perry Belmont's House in Washington D.C. at the behest of President Woodrow Wilson? ^{June 13, 2008}
• ... that the only time a Confederate flag was displayed in Nevada during the American Civil War was over a saloon? ^{June 10, 2008}
• ... that some Aleutian natives were still enslaved in Alaska as late as 1903? ^{June 3, 2008}
• ... that by the time Fort Scott was completed, it was already obsolete? ^{May 31, 2008}
• ... that Eisenhower's home cost more than six times to renovate than it did to purchase, due to union labor and Mamie Eisenhower's whims?
• ... that soldiers from Fort Benning patrolled the woods around the Little White House during World War II?
• ... that prehistoric people used the same 89 °F (32 °C) warm springs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt would use in the 20th century? ^{May 28, 2008}
• ... that after writing Confederates in the Attic, Tony Horwitz was sued for calling Alberta Martin's husband a deserter in the book? ^{May 14, 2008}
• ... that the 27th U.S. President William Howard Taft's boyhood home almost became a funeral parlor?
• ...that Sailor's Creek Battlefield State Park's Hillsman House still has bloodstains on its floor dating to its use as a hospital after the Battle of Sayler's Creek in April 1865?
• ...that the South Carolina secessionists had to relocate from their original meeting site at Columbia's First Baptist Church, due to a smallpox outbreak?
• ...that Jefferson Davis conceded the American Civil War at the Burt-Stark Mansion? ^{February 28, 2008}
• ...that the captain of the steamboat Natchez would increase his boat's speed by putting bacon and hog fat in its engines, and giving his men whiskey? ^{January 13, 2008}

  Current nominees:

  • ... that Andrew Johnson National Cemetery, part of Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, was given to federal control as Andrew Johnson's daughter no longer wanted to maintain it? (self-nom)--Bedford ^Pray 02:35, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that 5,000 people went to Eugene V. Debs' home to attend his funeral sermon in 1926? (self-nom)--Bedford ^Pray 00:13, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that Jenny Wiley State Resort Park is named for a woman who escaped by herself from Cherokees that tomahawked her three-month-old child? (self-nom)--Bedford ^Pray 23:17, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that the Virginia City Historic District comprises where the first silver rush to intensely apply large-industrial mining methods took place?--Bedford ^Pray 03:00, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that the United States owns all of Zachary Taylor National Cemetery (pictured), except where Zachary Taylor and his family are actually buried? (self-nom, 5x expansion)--Bedford ^Pray 00:09, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ...that Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky? (self-nom, 5x expansion)--Bedford ^Pray 00:18, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ...that of the original 400 acres of property the Zachary Taylor House held, less than an acre remains of the property?(self-nom) 5x expansion --Bedford ^Pray 20:39, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that the Latham Confederate Monument (pictured) of Hopkinsville, Kentucky was supposed to honor both Confederate and Union soldiers? (self-nom)--Bedford ^Pray 00:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
  • ... that the Hopkinsville, Kentucky depot (pictured) was a popular stop on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad due to alcohol being legal to buy there? (self-nom)--Bedford ^Pray 23:35, 7 June 2008 (UTC)