July 14, 2023
What is a Hoosier
The Indiana Historical Society’s traveling exhibit “What is a Hoosier” will be in Huntington now through August 14. ...
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July 17, 2021
“Indiana’s Six” Vice Presidents
Dan Johns will present the program “Indiana’s Six” which is an overview of the office of the vice president and the lives and careers of the six vice presidents from Indiana.The program is free to members and there is a $3 charge for non-members. Historical...
April 26, 2018
Broadway School
Little is known or written about a school that once set south of the Wabash Railroad on the east side of Broadway between Kocher Street and State Street. That is, except, for the many poems, music and published works, left to my mother by the...
April 24, 2018
Schaefer Drug Store
A corner with a long history in the development of Huntington is the southeast corner of Jefferson and Market Streets. In the 1840s a red framed store building sat on this corner belonging to Thomas Staily and was later purchased by Samuel Purviance. The earliest known use...
April 21, 2018
Sowerwines
Where now stands a parking lot at the northwest corner of Jefferson and Franklin Streets had, at one time, many business activities. The location housed the first wood structure courthouse, built in 1839 by John Tipton. Court was held on the second floor and the lower floor...
April 19, 2018
Changing Names
An often asked question is “what were the original names of towns in Huntington County before they gained their present name?” “West Point” was founded in 1885 but was soon changed to “Bippus.” James Crosby founded “Kelso” in 1856, named after a town in Scotland, but...
April 16, 2018
History of the Huntington County Historical Society
The society was known to be active as early as 1926. Milo Feightner, who was acting president at the time, talked on the preservation of relics in Huntington County. The organization became inactive for a considerable number of years but returned in 1953. It is not...
April 12, 2018
Horror in a Small Town
On Sunday July 28, 1968 at about half past midnight, Burl Lyles parked his car on a country lane, along with his girlfriend Karen, two and one half miles southeast of Huntington on reservoir land. Not realizing the horror that was about to interrupt their evening,...
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