Taverns (Inns)

Scope and Contents This collection consists of four items: a typescript history of "The Old Tavern" that was located near Elizabethtown (undated); a typescript copy of "A Brief Review of the Organization and Activities of the Columbus Grange No. 2174" by Mrs. W. H. Newsom, a charter member of the Grange (February 7, 1934); a typescript of the "History of Sandcreek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana" by May Adams Arbuckle and copied on June 26, 1934; and a handwritten prison "confession" by John Jones and dated...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the of business papers of John Borden, stock certificates and receipts of the Borden family in Indiana ranging from 1715 to 1902. Also included are William W. Borden’s letters, a scrapbook of notes and clippings of his geological work, and the papers of John M. Johnston, a Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana judge. Johnston’s papers include correspondence with Thomas A. Hendricks, Oliver P. Morton, Noah Noble, and James Whitcomb.There is also an oversize...

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of a typed document entitled "Tales of a Wayside Tavern: A Few Yarns Spun by Bige Hatfield” written by Carl Anderson in Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, undated, regarding the Lewis House inn and the stories told there by "Bige Hatfield" during the early 20th century.

Scope and Contents This collection includes correspondence, pencil drawings, negatives, 35mm slides, and family photographs from Christian Schrader in Indianapolis, Indiana ranging from circa 1842 to 1987, regarding Schrader’s family, friends, and early Indianapolis. Schrader includes rough dates for the subjects he depicts in the drawings, but many of them were created from his recollections later in life. There are also oversize drawings (OBE017).Negatives are available for most of the drawings. In...

Scope and Contents This collection includes three documents, two handwritten and one typed on Indianapolis Star letter head. All three documents list various old taverns that can be found around the state of Indiana. The first is a description of different taverns in the order that one would encounter them in while walking through an area near Greensburg. The next paper is a list of different towns of Indiana. The final document is typed and lists several historic taverns in...