Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), I-69 Corridor oral histories
Collection
Identifier: OH286
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises typed transcripts and audio CDs containing files from oral history interviews with six interviewees in Greene and Monroe counties, Indiana in 2015, regarding companies and individuals involved in the I-69 Section 4 mitigation. These interviews are as follows:
1. Ronnie Wilcoxin interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/02/19, regarding Clifty Church in Greene County and the surrounding community.
2. Patrick J. Munson, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/05, regarding Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works archaeological site in southwest Indiana. Jason Goldbach, an archaeologist with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
3. Cheryl Munson, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/05, regarding Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works archaeological site in southwest Indiana. . Jason Goldbach, an archaeologist with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
4. Anthony Haag, interviewed interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/13, regarding Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division and its history with the surrounding communities. Bethany Hughes, an associate with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
5. Pat Fell-Barker, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/19, regarding chairman of the board of B. G. Hoadley Quarries and the limestone quarrying industry in Bloomington, Indiana. Bethany Hughes, an associate with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
6. William Bybee, interviewed by Kelly Molloy on 2015/04/22, regarding Bybee Stone Company and the dimension limestone industry in Monroe County.
1. Ronnie Wilcoxin interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/02/19, regarding Clifty Church in Greene County and the surrounding community.
2. Patrick J. Munson, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/05, regarding Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works archaeological site in southwest Indiana. Jason Goldbach, an archaeologist with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
3. Cheryl Munson, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/05, regarding Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works archaeological site in southwest Indiana. . Jason Goldbach, an archaeologist with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
4. Anthony Haag, interviewed interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/13, regarding Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division and its history with the surrounding communities. Bethany Hughes, an associate with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
5. Pat Fell-Barker, interviewed by Melissa Burlock on 2015/03/19, regarding chairman of the board of B. G. Hoadley Quarries and the limestone quarrying industry in Bloomington, Indiana. Bethany Hughes, an associate with Weintraut and Associates, was also present.
6. William Bybee, interviewed by Kelly Molloy on 2015/04/22, regarding Bybee Stone Company and the dimension limestone industry in Monroe County.
Dates
- 2015-2019
Creator
- Indiana. Department of Transportation (Client, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Legal title, copyright, and literary rights resides with the creators of the documents or their legal heirs and assigns. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Biographical Note
Ronnie Lee Wilcoxen was born on June 28, 1942, in Shoals, Martin County, Indiana. He married his wife, Ann in 1972 and they moved to Greene County, Indiana, to be near her family and they moved into a house right next to the church. Wilcoxen worked as a crane operator, a softball umpire, a volunteer firefighter, and doing accounting for an art program. The Wilcoxens kept an eye on the church property and helped with its upkeep. He and his wife became members of the Old Clifty Church Memorial Association board of directors in Greene County, Indiana. The church was located at 3044 Clifty Road, southeast of Bloomfield. Ronnie Wilcoxen died on June 9, 2016, in Bloomington, Indiana.
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Dr. Patrick J. Munson was a professor emeritus of anthropology at Indiana University. He was born in 1940 in Lewistown, Illinois. He and his wife Cheryl moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in 1971. In 2001, the couple began studying the Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works site in Monroe County, Indiana.
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Cheryl Anne Munson was a research scientist at the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a member of the Monroe County Council. She was born 1944 in Denver, Colorado, and was married to Dr. Patrick J. Munson. They moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1971. She first studied geology at the University of Arizona School of Mines and Minerals. However, due to a dearth of opportunities for women in structural geology, she gravitated to archaeology and anthropology because of her interest in field work. Munson then went to graduate school for those fields at the University of Illinois. While Arizona had been more open to women in archaeology and anthropology, the Midwest proved different and Munson became a trailblazer for women in those fields in the region.
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Anthony Thomas Haag was a senior engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division. He was born in February of 1964 in Daviess County, Indiana. Three of his grandparents worked at Crane, including during its construction during the early World War II, the Vietnam War, and other times, as well as his parents.
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Patsy "Pat" Fell-Barker was the chairman of the board of B. G. Hoadley Quarries in Bloomington, Indiana. She was born April 22, 1933, in Aurora, Indiana.
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William Bybee was born May 29, 1951, in Bloomington, Indiana. His family was engaged in the stone industry for multiple generations and did menial work at the company growing. After studying geology for three years at Indiana University, Bybee worked on several boats down in the Gulf of Mexico. Bybee worked in that industry for 18 years, living in different places across North America. He returned to Indiana and began working for the family business in Elletsville, Indiana. Bybee became president of the Bybee Stone Company in Elletsville, serving from 2002 to present, as of 2026.
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Dr. Patrick J. Munson was a professor emeritus of anthropology at Indiana University. He was born in 1940 in Lewistown, Illinois. He and his wife Cheryl moved to Bloomington, Indiana, in 1971. In 2001, the couple began studying the Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works site in Monroe County, Indiana.
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Cheryl Anne Munson was a research scientist at the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University, Bloomington, and a member of the Monroe County Council. She was born 1944 in Denver, Colorado, and was married to Dr. Patrick J. Munson. They moved to Bloomington, Indiana in 1971. She first studied geology at the University of Arizona School of Mines and Minerals. However, due to a dearth of opportunities for women in structural geology, she gravitated to archaeology and anthropology because of her interest in field work. Munson then went to graduate school for those fields at the University of Illinois. While Arizona had been more open to women in archaeology and anthropology, the Midwest proved different and Munson became a trailblazer for women in those fields in the region.
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Anthony Thomas Haag was a senior engineer at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division. He was born in February of 1964 in Daviess County, Indiana. Three of his grandparents worked at Crane, including during its construction during the early World War II, the Vietnam War, and other times, as well as his parents.
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Patsy "Pat" Fell-Barker was the chairman of the board of B. G. Hoadley Quarries in Bloomington, Indiana. She was born April 22, 1933, in Aurora, Indiana.
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William Bybee was born May 29, 1951, in Bloomington, Indiana. His family was engaged in the stone industry for multiple generations and did menial work at the company growing. After studying geology for three years at Indiana University, Bybee worked on several boats down in the Gulf of Mexico. Bybee worked in that industry for 18 years, living in different places across North America. He returned to Indiana and began working for the family business in Elletsville, Indiana. Bybee became president of the Bybee Stone Company in Elletsville, serving from 2002 to present, as of 2026.
Historical Note
The oral history project was part of an agreement between the Federal Highway Administration and the Indiana State Historic Preservation Officer on May 11, 2011, to research the cultural and natural environment, as well as the community history, along the I-69 corridor, with specific references to historic properties within section 4 of the tier 2 study, which focuses on an area located in Monroe and Greene counties in Indiana. This was specifically concerning the I-69 Section 4 Mitigation (DES No. 1297894, DHPA 1016), which stretched from Evansville to Indianapolis in Indiana and the oral history project was overseen by Indiana Department of Transportation and conducted by a local history contractor, Weintraut and Associates, Inc. ofZionsville, Indiana, in 2015.
Extent
0.02 Cubic Feet (2 transcripts, 2 audio discs (CDs))
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by subject, then chronologically.
Custodial History
This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation from the Indiana Department of Transportation on 2019/10/11.
Accruals
No further additions are expected.
Processing Information
Collection processing completed 2026/01/07 by Brittany Kropf. EAD finding aid created 2026/01/07 by Brittany Kropf.
- Church buildings
- Greene County (Ind.)
- Interstate 69
- Interstate Highway System
- Iron industry and trade
- Limestone industry
- Limestone industry -- Indiana
- Monroe County (Ind.)
- Optical disks
- Oral history
- Oral history -- Indiana
- Oral history interviews
- Quarries and quarrying
- Randolph Ross and Son's Virginia Iron Works (Ind.)
- Transcriptions
Creator
- Indiana. Department of Transportation (Client, Organization)
- Weintraut and Associates, Inc. (Contractor, Organization)
- Burlock, Melissa (Interviewer, Person)
- Goldbach, Jason (Interviewer, Person)
- Hughes, Bethany (Interviewer, Person)
- Molloy, Kelly Lally (Interviewer, Person)
- Bybee, William, 1951- (Interviewee, Person)
- Fell-Barker, Patsy, 1933- (Interviewer, Person)
- Haag, Anthony Thomas, 1964- (Interviewee, Person)
- Munson, Cheryl, 1944- (Interviewee, Person)
- Munson, Patrick J., 1940- (Interviewee, Person)
- Wilcoxen, Ronnie Lee, 1942-2016 (Interviewee, Person)
- Title
- Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT), I-69 Corridor oral histories
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Repository
Contact:
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204 U.S.A.
317-232-3671
