Hidden History of Indiana

Sift through nearly forgotten and altogether fascinating elements from two hundred years of Hoosier history.A lost river flows in―and under―Southern Indiana. The ghostly remains of a defunct ordnance plant in LaPorte County bely the industriousness of the six thousand men and women who worked there at its height to support the homefront effort during World War II. Balloonists delighted Hoosier crowds in the days before the airplane, and Studebakers roared along on the Studebaker proving grounds just west of South Bend.From the long history of Indiana’s coal industry to the construction of the state’s first railroad, author Edward J. Fujawa offers a fresh angle on the well known while unearthing remarkable and obscure tales from two centuries of Indiana history. Read more