The Battle Ground Story: Battle Ground’s Methodist Camps By Sandy Lahr Reprinted from the TCHA Member Newsletter of August 1990, vol. 23, No. 8 “Stop the singing and give me a chance to shout!!!,” Rev. John W. T. McMullen, so inspired and so full of spiritual emotion, cried out to Prof. Elderkin and his great […]
Richard Benbridge Wetherill 1859- 1940 by Russell Cosper The following article is a reprint from the TCHA member newsletter of December, 1981. It is printed here in honor of the 90th anniversary of the incorporation of the Tippecanoe County Historical Association on December 4, 1928. Although the expression has become a cliché, the Tippecanoe County […]
German-Americans in Tippecanoe County and the Great War Cultural Attack on the Home Front By Guest Blogger Mary Anthrop “Every day is like Fourth of July and I am in the midst of one of the greatest battles of history. During the past week we have averaged about four hundred prisoners…. It appears as though […]
The First Official Air Mail Flight by guest blogger Angelina Fielding The first official air mail flight took place in Lafayette, Indiana on August 17, 1859. John Wise used his famous balloon Jupiter to fly and deliver mail for the Lafayette Postmaster. Although the flight failed to reach its target destination, it was the first […]
Family Photo Mysteries by Quentin Robinson, Tippecanoe County Historian. A while back I was looking at an old photo album which had, I think, belonged to my grandmother Robinson. Most of the pictures in it date from the teens through about 1940. This picture really caught my attention. Why is the buggy hanging from the […]
A Famous Artist in Our Backyard by guest blogger Angelina Fielding Buried in the Greenbush Cemetery are the remains of the famous frontier artist George Winter. Winter is known for his paintings of nineteenth century Pottawatomi and Miami Native Americans who lived in the Wabash Valley. He worked both in watercolors and oils, and created […]