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Endangeredmost Time Is Running out to Save These Important Hoosier Places from the PRESIDENT STARTERS SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2020 ROUND OF APPLAUSE Celebrating inspiring preservation leaders HOME GROWN Southern Indiana farm wins Arnold Award 10 EndangeredMost Time is running out to save these important Hoosier places FROM THE PRESIDENT STARTERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS Olon F. Dotson Muncie Hon. Randall T. Shepard Virtual Honorary Chairman Jeremy D. Efroymson Indianapolis Parker Beauchamp Chairman Melissa Glaze Visit Roanoke How about some James P. Fadely, Ph.D. new online tour is helping Past Chairman Tracy Haddad Columbus Winona Lake’s Billy Sunday Sara Edgerton good news? Vice Chairman David A. Haist Home Museum open its Culver Marsh Davis Adoors to anyone with an Internet IN A RARE AND WONDERFUL President Bob Jones blast of bipartisanship, Evansville connection. In 1891, Billy Sunday left Doris Anne Sadler Congress recently passed the Great American Outdoors Act. Secretary/Assistant Treasurer Christine H. Keck a professional baseball career to Evansville Approved by large majorities in the House and Senate, the Thomas H. Engle become one of America’s best-known M1019 SOCIETY, INDIANA HISTORICAL Assistant Secretary Matthew R. Mayol, AIA Indianapolis evangelical ministers, converting his act provides support for our nation’s natural landscape and Brett D. McKamey Treasurer Ray Ontko athleticism into energetic sermons historic national parks. A majority of Indiana’s delegation on Richmond Judy A. O’Bannon peppered with baseball metaphors. Capitol Hill supported the measure. Secretary Emerita Martin E. Rahe Linked In Cincinnati, OH In 1911, he and his wife Helen built The Great American Outdoors Act, at last, provides DIRECTORS James W. Renne a Craftsman bungalow they called Interest in cycling has resurged in 2020 as a Hilary Barnes Newburgh Mount Hood in Winona Lake, the full and permanent funding for the Land and Water Indianapolis socially distant activity taking advantage of a growing George A. Rogge family’s home base between speak- Conservation Fund at $900 million annually—as authorized The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Gary system of trails and city bike lanes. In the late 1800s, Baskerville-Burrows Sallie W. Rowland ing engagements. To make the in 1964 but not realized until now—from oil and gas rev- Indianapolis Indianapolis house available to visitors who could avid cyclist Arthur Newby established Indianapolis enues. This is great news for the natural environment within Candace Chapman Peter J. Sacopulos Chain and Stamping Company, manufacturer of bicy- Evansville Terre Haute not access the upper level, Grace the 85 million acres of public lands. And, it provides $9.5 bil- Edward D. Clere Robert L. Santa College used a Historic Preservation cle chains and parts. The company reportedly grew to lion over the next five years to address deferred maintenance New Albany Bloomington Education Grant from Indiana supply around 60 percent of American-made bicycle Mike Corbett Charlitta Winston Landmarks and Indiana Humanities to in our national park system, which contains 134 historical Noblesville Indianapolis chains, catering to such customers as the Wright create the online tour of the second parks or sites, 83 national monuments, 62 national parks, Ellen Swisher Crabb John D. Zeglis Brothers, who used their chain on their Wright Indianapolis Culver story, which incorporates original 25 battlefields or military parks, and 30 national memori- Cheri Dick Beau F. Zoeller documents and audio, including Flyer. Newby also championed construction of the Zionsville Indianapolis als. That’s a welcome step toward addressing the estimated Helen Sunday describing several arti- Newby Oval around 30th Street and Central Avenue, $12 billion needed to tackle deferred maintenance in these OFFICES & HISTORIC SITES facts in the house. Take the tour by a wooden racing track where up to 20,000 fans could visiting bit.ly/BillySundayHomeTour. places, which attract over 318 million visitors annually. Headquarters Southeast Field Office watch cyclists test their skills. On November 5, a Applications for the next round of Looking into the House and Senate bills that led to the act, Indiana Landmarks Center Aurora virtual talk investigates Newby’s legacy and the reach 1201 Central Avenue (812) 926-0983 Historic Preservation Education I was fascinated to find the late Representative John Lewis Indianapolis, IN 46202 Southwest Field Office of his company’s successor, Diamond [email protected] Evansville Grants are due September 30, 2020; (317) 639-4534 (812) 423-2988 Chain. See p. 18 for details. among the champions of the Great American Outdoors (800) 450-4534 learn more at indianahumanities.org. Western Regional Office Act, which he introduced in the House last year. Add to the Northwest Field Office Terre Haute Gary (812) 232-4534 legacy of a great American hero this act that will help restore (219) 947-2657 Huddleston Farmhouse dignity and sustainability to the lands and historic sites we Central Regional Office Cambridge City Indianapolis (765) 478-3172 share as a nation. (317) 639-4534 Morris-Butler House Eastern Regional Office Indianapolis Cambridge City (317) 639-4534 (765) 478-3172 Veraestau raised by Eagle Scout Northern Regional Office Aurora South Bend (812) 926-0983 (574) 232-4534 Reece Thompson to restore French Lick and West Thorntown’s Colored Cemetery, Marsh Davis, President Northeast Field Office Baden Springs tours Wabash (866) 571-8687 (toll free) fund a ground penetrating (800) 450-4534 (812) 936-5870 Southern Regional Office radar study of the grounds, install a New Albany (812) 284-4534 decorative fence around its boundaries, and erect Vacant, moldering, and with estimated repairs climbing into the an Indiana Historical Bureau marker noting its his- millions, Gary’s 1930 Theodore Roosevelt High School joins Indiana On the ©2020, Indiana Landmarks; ISSN#: 0737-8602 torical significance. Learn more about the project, a Landmarks’ 10 Most Endangered list in 2020. Read about the school Cover Indiana Landmarks publishes Indiana Preservation bimonthly winner of this year’s Sandi Servaas Memorial Award, and other sites in imminent jeopardy on pp. 8-15. PHOTO BY BRAD MILLER for members. To join and learn other membership benefits, visit indianalandmarks.org or contact memberships@ on p. 4. FAMILY © THOMPSON PHOTO indianalandmarks.org, 317-639-4534 or 800-450-4534. To offer suggestions forIndiana Preservation, contact editor@ indianalandmarks.org. 2 INDIANA PRESERVATION COLLEGE ©GRACE indianalandmarks.org 3 AWARD WINNERS Indiana Historical Marker. For the site’s dedication in August 2019, Reece located and invited descendants of those buried in the cemetery to attend as guests of honor. “He spent hours and hours and brought together a team of diverse individuals to bring attention to people whose history had been lost,” notes Shannon Hudson, author of Abolitionists Inspiring the on the Underground Railroad: Legends from Montgomery County, Next Generation Indiana, who assisted with the project. “It was long overdue.” IN 2016, A DIMINUTIVE SIGN ON A WOODEN In Evansville, teacher Jon Carl inspires other young people to post reading “Colored Cemetery, est. 1836” and four unre- take a closer look at the landmarks around them, netting him markable gravestones near a farm field in Thorntown offered our second 2020 Sandi Servaas Memorial Award. the only hint of the site’s history as a final resting place for An Evansville native, Jon recalls being devastated as a the community’s early African American residents. Today, a 13-year-old by the demolition of the city’s 1902 L&N Railroad decorative fence surrounds restored gravestones, and a new Depot in 1985. As a field surveyor documenting the county’s Evansville his- Fifteen years later, Jon’s “Feel marker offers deeper interpretation of the cemetery’s heritage. historic structures in the ’90s, he gained deeper appreciation of tory teacher Jon the History” classes have engaged Carl (above) won For restoring the cemetery and bringing wider attention to local landmarks and architecture, knowledge he shares today Indiana Landmarks’ hundreds of students in research- its story, Reece Thompson earned Indiana Landmarks’ 2020 with students in his history classes at Reitz High School. 2020 Sandi Servaas ing and creating nearly 75 videos Sandi Servaas Memorial Award. Reece is one of two recipi- “I love it when kids recognize a building that they have lived Memorial Award exploring the history, architecture, ents of the award this year. The winners receive a $1,000 with their whole life but have never taken the time to stop and for inspiring his condition, and use of Evansville students to deeper prize and the original sculpture “No Doors to Lock Out the really study,” says Jon. “Now they care about it and want to appreciation of local landmarks. The local PBS affiliate, Past” by Evansville sculptor John McNaughton. know its history and its future.” landmarks, leading WNIN, considered the video essays As a high school sophomore in 2016, Reece was looking In 2005, Terry Hughes, a friend and member of the them in researching high-enough quality to air on its and creating videos for an Eagle Scout project when he recalled a local news- Lebanon student Colored Cemetery Committee. He Vanderburgh County Historical Society, encouraged Jon to station, and community groups exploring Evansville Reece Thompson paper article about the Thorntown Colored Cemetery. Just collected donations, secured per- take advantage of emerging technology to guide students in history and buildings. have used them in raising money (above) won Indiana PHOTOS © JON CARL after the Civil War, members of the local Quaker commu- Landmarks’ 2020 Sandi mits and a corporate sponsor, wrote creating local history documentaries. for local landmarks including the nity purchased the cemetery’s ground to provide a resting Servaas Memorial grants, and rallied 28 volunteers to Owen Block and Old Vanderburgh place for the town’s Black residents, who were not allowed Award for restoring help repair headstones. County Courthouse. The classes to be buried within city limits. Today, the Thorntown the Thorntown Colored Though only four headstones also created walking tours of local Cemetery (below Colored Cemetery is Boone County’s only known African left).
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