Exploring the May 18, 1927, tornado which swept through the heart of downtown Indianapolis and caused serious damage on the near eastside.

Companion Blog Post: "Like the Roar and Hum of a Fast Speeding Railway Locomotive" - The Eastside Tornado of 1927

Note: All sources listed in the above blog post. Most images are the Indiana Historical Society's Bass Photo Collection. The full collection can be accessed at this link: Indiana Historical Society Digital Images - Indiana Historical Society Digital Images.

Fire Tower Blog Post: Eye in the Sky: The Last Indianapolis Fire Tower

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This episode explores a proposal in the early 1920s to construct a dam on the White River at present day 38th Street in Indianapolis in order to create a large lake in the river valley north of that point, The proposed lake would have flooded the town of Rocky Ripple and made Butler University a lakeside campus.

This podcast is based on one of the first blogposts I published on Class900Indy.com back in 2018. An updated version of this blog may be found here: https://www.class900indy.com/post/a-river-runs-through-it-but-we-d-rather-have-a-lake-the-fairview-park-reservoir

Sources for the podcast may be found at the bottom of the blog post above.

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Yesterday’s Indianapolis

Episode 3: “A Veritable Fire Trap”: The National Surgical Institute Fire of 1892

Companion Blog Post: https://www.class900indy.com/post/a-veritable-fire-trap-the-national-surgical-institute-fire-of-1892

As a heads up, this episode contains some graphic descriptions of fire victims. Also, some of the quoted sources use outdated and offensive language when referring to the patients of the Surgical Institute.

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