Articles in: Encyclopedia Evansvillia
- 21 weeks 5 days ago
In the late 1930s, Harlem postal worker Victor Hugo Green began a career as a travel agent and set about publishing a travel guide meant to help...
- 28 weeks 4 days ago
Over the years there have been tales of ghosts, haunted places, unexplained lights, and other supernatural happenings in Evansville, but in 1877 an...
- 38 weeks 2 days ago
As Evansville copes with COVID-19, taking a look back more than 100 years ago, we can see the effects of the last pandemic on the city. Evansville...
- 46 weeks 4 days ago
Evansville, like other cities in the U.S., participates in the U.S. Census every 10 years for a variety of benefits (other than it being required in...
- 1 year 3 weeks ago
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony, who authored the...
- 1 year 13 weeks ago
While many parts of Evansville’s history are no longer visible, the new Evansville African American Heritage Trail is preserving prominent...
- 1 year 23 weeks ago
History states that Hannah and Lt. George W. Jacobs arrived in the city of Evansville in 1818, after embarking on a flatboat down the Ohio River from...
- 1 year 32 weeks ago
On Oct. 10, 1979, hundreds gathered on the grounds of the brand new Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana. In attendance were architect Richard Meier, Lt...
- 1 year 41 weeks ago
On May 23, 1969, civic and government leaders gathered to dedicate the new Civic Center complex. More than 50 years since that date, the importance...
- 1 year 48 weeks ago
D-Day — the invasion of France on the beaches of Normandy occurred on June 6, 1944, and was the largest amphibious warfare operation in the...
- 2 years 2 weeks ago
Outside of the Children’s Room at Willard Library is a display case filled with egg ornaments; all are decades old. They are the work of former...
- 2 years 21 weeks ago
For years Thanksgiving Day has been linked with sports. In Evansville, that has not been an exception.
On Nov. 11, 1911, the Courier reported “...
- 2 years 32 weeks ago
In October 1928, Evansville was preparing to take to the air. The city already had agreed to purchase more than 200 acres around the Heerdink farm...
- 2 years 49 weeks ago
Usually referred to as the General Cigar Building, the four-story brick building at the corner of Second and Court streets serves as the home of...
- 3 years 3 weeks ago
Few people on the elevated section of the Lloyd Expressway west of Pigeon Creek realize they are crossing a former lake. Fewer still know of the...
- 3 years 13 weeks ago
January 7, 2018, marked the 200th anniversary of the formation of Vanderburgh County. The creation of the county was the result of Warrick County...
- 3 years 22 weeks ago
In a time before malls and online shopping, the holiday season in Evansville meant you were in need of a trip Downtown.
The stores were not only for...
- 3 years 31 weeks ago
In January 1924, as the new Bosse High School on the East Side opened, faculty members petitioned the school board to name the athletic field “...
- 3 years 39 weeks ago
In northeast Evansville, more than 70,000 residents occupy what 19th century writers referred to as Evansville’s City of the Dead.
The current...
- 3 years 49 weeks ago
Walking through Oak Hill Cemetery, one would be hard pressed to find a connection to the Memorial Day extravaganza we know as the Indianapolis 500....
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