Footnotes: Grant County Indiana History: Recent Episodes
William Munn
Grant County Historian Bill Munn and WBAT's Big John Morgan discuss Marion's Shotgun Houses, designed by famed architect Samuel Plato. Pictures and maps may be viewed at https://billmunn.substack.com/p/samuel-platos-shotgun-houses.
The maps referred to in the piece are Sanborn Fire maps. I needed more coffee.
Originally broadcast on 1400 WBAT 12.12.22
If you have stories about these houses, please let me know.
Bill
Fairmount News editor tells about going with "Pap" to buy hides in southwest Grant County in 1880. In another episode, he makes the journey again in a Model T Ford.
BIG Doings!
Visit seven significant examples of late 19th-century and early 20th-century architecture in the Washington- Adams Street Neighborhood.
Sponsored by SOS Marion, dedicated to the preservation and restoration of historic structures in Marion, Indiana
Powel Crosley made his fortune by figuring out the next thing. One of those was his car made in Marion.
In 1843 young Frederick Douglass speaks at a meeting of the Indiana Ant-Slavery Society in Jonesboro, Indiana
From Marion, Indiana candy shop to the world stage. What's Harpo Marx have to do with it?
This was originally broadcast on "Moments in Grant County History" on WBAT AM Marion,, Indiana
The story of the Gas Boom success of JL McCulloch, J. Wood Wilson and the Ball Brothers fruit jar factories