Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
1916

Indianapolis, a city, the capital of Indiana and of Marion co., is on the West Fork of the White River, 109 miles NW. of Cincinnati, on the Pitts burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis, the Lake Erie and Western and several other railroads. Lat. 39° 40' N. ; Ion. 86° 8' W. The site is nearly level and covers a very ex tended area. The streets generally cross one another at right angles, and especially in the residence quarter present a fine appearance in their handsome houses and shaded lawns. The city contains a fine court-house, the state institution for the deaf, dumb, and blind, a hospital for the insane, a state library, a public library (with upward of 100,000 volumes), masonic hall, the Heron Art Museum and Art School, city hospital, the University of Indianapolis, medical colleges, and various collegiate institutions. The capital building, measuring 492 feet in length, was erected at a cost of $2,000,000. Other noteworthy buildings are the new post-office, city-hall, Commercial Club, the Propylsaeum (used for literary purposes), national arsenal, the chamber of commerce, and an academy of music The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, by Bruno Schmidt, of Berlin, having a shaft 285 feet in height, stands in Monument Place. Indianapolis is noted for the beauty of its parks (Riverside, Garfield, St. Clair, Brookside, etc.), which together cover an area of nearly 1300 acres. The railroads centring in it traverse localities unsurpassed in agricultural resources, and furnish the best facilities for bringing the country products to the city and for distributing the city manufactures through the country. The region is rich in mineral re sources, and Indianapolis derives great advantages from the proximity of large natural gas- and oil-fields. The city's industries are represented by about 1100 manufactories employing more than 25,000 people, with an annual output of $70,000,000 worth of products. Among the leading industrial establishments are agricultural-implement factories, architectural-iron works, belting-factories, car-works, carriage- and wagon-factories, canned-goods factories, chemical- works, electric-light machinery factories, numerous foundries, engine- and boiler-works, fertilizer-factories, milling machinery works, railroad-frog and switch-works, furniture- factories, malleable-iron works, medicinal laboratories, pork-packing establishments, stove-foundries, starch-works, stave- and heading-factories, breweries, woollen-mills, etc. Other manufactures are those of terra-cotta, glass, pianos and organs, sewing-machines, and cotton goods. The receiving-yards for lire-stock cover upward of 100 acres and the stock-sheds have a capacity for 4000 cattle and 35,000 swine. The grain-elevators have a capacity for 1,000,000 bushels. Owing to its central location and railroad facilities, Indianapolis is a favorite meeting-place for organized bodies and is widely known as the Convention City." The place became the capital of the state in 1825. Pop. in 1850, 8090 ; in 1860, 18,611 ; in 1870, 48,244 ; in 1880, 75,056; in 1890, 105,436; in 1900, 169,164. Elevation above the sea, 700 feet.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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