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- ...that the Indiana Historical Society (pictured) is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains?
- ...that 150 Irish from Indianapolis participated in the Fenian raids, an attempt to invade Canada from Buffalo, New York in 1866?
- ...that famed Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley would regularly supply the children of the Lockerbie Square with candy on his walks?
- ...that Indiana state governor Frank O'Bannon stayed at Fort Harrison State Park while the governor's mansion was being made handicapped-accessible?
- ...that residents of Indianapolis came to the aid of Confederate prisoners of war at Camp Morton, providing food, clothing, and nursing?
- ...that visitors to James Whitcomb Riley's boyhood home inspired Riley to write many of his poems, including Little Orphant Annie?
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- ...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?
- ...that the Battle of Pogue's Run was done to prevent Democrats from rising against the American Civil War in Indiana?
- ...that the only New Deal housing project with spacious, wide-open areas was Lockefield Gardens?
- ...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?
- ...that Robert F. Kennedy's speech on the assassination of Martin Luther King is believed to have prevented riots from breaking out in Indianapolis?
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- ...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
- ...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis's Military Park can never be sold?
- ...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
- ...that Indianapolis's Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
- ...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
- ...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?
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- ...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?
- ....that attractions at Indianapolis, Indiana's White City Amusement Park included baby incubators and a Mount Vesuvius reenactment?
- ...that the Murat Centre is the only Shrine temple with a French name, and is the largest Shrine temple in North America?
- ...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?
- ...that the Indiana Medical History Museum is the oldest surviving pathology laboratory in the U.S.?
- ...that a blue line marks where Pogue's Run once ran through downtown Indianapolis?
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