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This is a preview of the full content of our Indiana’s Best app.

Please consider downloading this app to support small independent publishing and because:

  • All content is designed for mobile devices and works best there.
  • Detailed in-app maps will help you find sites using your device’s GPS.
  • The app works offline (one time upgrade required on Android versions).
  • All advertising (only present on Android versions) can be removed.

The app will also allow you to:

  • Add custom locations to the app map (your hotel…).
  • Create your own list of favourites as you browse.
  • Search the entire contents using a fast and simple text-search tool.
  • Make one-click phone calls (on phones).
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History

Baking the old fashioned way in Prophetstown

Travel back into the past to a time and place where horse and buggies navigate dirt roads, women in bonnets and plain dress make their best pies and breads to sell by the road raising money for one room schoolhouses.

Those portals to the past can be found along the back roads of Indiana where old Mills still operate turning out flour, grits and pancake mixes and Covered Bridges take you across streams and rivers. And for those of us who like a ghost story or two, several of these 19th century bridges are considered to be Haunted Bridges.

Indiana became a state in 1816 but before then Early Indiana was very much the domain of hardy pioneers and frontiers people. Their lives can be retraced at lincolnpioneervillage.com/, Spring Mill State Park, and www.browncountyhistorycenter.org/pioneer-village.html

Read the full content in the app
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1790–1820 Early Indiana

1820–1850: Stage-coach era

1850–1870 Civil War era

1870–1910: Turn-of-the-century Indiana

Haunted Bridges

Vincennes

Text © Jane Ammeson

Image by Jane Simon Ammeson