Major Groundbreaking Wednesday [Greenlawn?]

Did you notice that this big money project glossed over 
the possibility of human remains from Greenlawn Cemetery?

 Officials from Indy Eleven and Keystone Group were joined Wednesday by state and city leaders at the groundbreaking for Eleven Park, a new development centered around a multi-purpose soccer stadium, which will serve as the new permanent home for the Indianapolis men's and women's soccer teams.

            Demolition is already set to begin immediately and continue over the next few months, according to Indy Eleven. 

            Upon completion, the stadium is expected to seat 20,000 people and include more than 600 apartments, 205,000 square feet of office space, 197,000 square feet of retail space alongside restaurants, hotels, green space and more. 

            Officials said they hope building on what they called an "underutilized portion" of downtown will make a new mark on Indianapolis. 

 

National Archives Online Military Programs

If you are interested in genealogy and military history, 

go to archives.gov and enjoy these two June programs.

The glider pilots were especially important during the D-Day operation.

 

Memorial Weekend: Black Troops In WW2

As the nation celebrates Memorial Day, let's remember some unfinished business.

Most Americans think of WW2 as the great triumph of democracy over evil, but that 

U.S. military had a few evils of its own. Read about the treatment of black soldiers 

and sailors in this 24-page article in our library. 

 

State Archives Update

We wanted to bring you up to date on the construction progress 

of the new Indiana State Archives building as of yesterday.

[See Below]

You're welcome.

 

Civil War Hospital Newspaper at State Library

 The Indiana State Library digitized this newspaper recently. 

If you have a connection, you can access it at their site.

African American History, Part Two

The second session of this Freetown Village series is coming up. 

We attended the first one and enjoyed the conversations. 

Come on down and put in your two cents (or two dollars) worth. 

See you there!

 

Check Out This USCT Resource

The State Archives has this searchable Civil War database 

of Indiana African-American Soldiers. 

We didn't know about the Mexican border duty.

 

State Library Resumes Evening Events

If you are a worker bee or just have have trouble getting to the Genealogy Division,

you should take advantage of these evening hours. 

See you there!

 GSMC will have a resource table at this event. Stop by and say hey!

Ancestor In The 20th Indiana?

The Spring 2023 issue of TRACES magazine from the Indiana Historical Society 

has a great 12-page article on this Civil War regiment. 

The article includes many illustrations; we suggest you check it out. 

[Our GSMC library has a copy.]

 

Palatines Meet May 20 At IHS

 

Greenlawn Still Making News

GSMC representatives were among about 100 city residents in the audience at the Biltwell Event Center Tuesday evening to get the latest update on the Henry Street Bridge project.

A prominent part of the presentation was about plans to handle 

possible human remains from Greenlawn Cemetery.

Everything from the right side of the sketch below to Kentucky Avenue 

goes through the Greenlawn site, so how can they NOT find remains.

This meeting did not even cover the soccer stadium, which will also be in the Cemetery area.

GSMC plans to follow these projects closely to make sure the contractors do it right!

 

Study the Cruiser USS Indianapolis

Join us for an updated look at our namesake Navy ship on Saturday.

 

Warren Central Resources Increased

We nearly doubled our Warren Central collection this week, thanks to the Pollard family.

Researchers could still use a lot more; 

can you help by contributing some of your material?

 

Pollard-Murphy-Heller Family Collection Added

We just added the below collection of a Warren Township family. 

Shirley's children sent us a great boxful of materials 

that included lots of Warren Central High School items.

We were surprised to discover that Shirley is buried right here in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Kinda like one of the gang!

We have a good space for YOUR family, too!

 

Have A Family Story In Photos?

Our family photo collection just grew larger with the recent addition of the Meier and Wechsler files. These are courtesy of Member Partner Judy Jones. 

We have two more collections in process and soon to be added.

We would like to add your family to this lineup. 

Come on in now and take care of that!

 

Check Out Early County Roads

Our ancestors sometimes had a hard road to travel. 

Take a look at some early transportation routes on this blog.

intransporthistory.home.blog

Thanks to Marlena Linne for this heads up.