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Title: Greater Indianapolis ;the history, the industries, the institutions, and the people of a city of homes
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Indianapolis Public Library United States. Work Projects Administration
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Publisher: Chicago : The Lewis publishing company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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od time thewater at this p)int would swim a horse. Withthis ravine and logues Kun on the east andsouth, and Fall Creek on the north and west,with the river occupying the same valley orbottom as the creek, the city was in flood timealmost on an island; and when the streamswere all flooded at once, as often happened,the jilaie was almost isolated, for there wereno bridges for several years. In April andMay, 1821, the publication of the Gazettewas sus)>endcd for a month, because the edi-tors ba(l gone out of town and could not getback through the floods. On May 10, 1824.the Wsteni Censor apologized for its limitedamount of outside news for the reason thaithe mail carriers had been unable to get outof or into the town. In Manh and April.1820, the mails were slopped for some <lays.The worst of these early floods were in 1824and 1828, and of these the latter did thegreater damage, becauM farmers had begun tocultivate the hottom-hinds. and fences were HISTOKV OF (iKK.VlKi; 1XDIAXAPOUS.
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z « fl O Oh cz < .9 KK g 3 ■^ Z =• Z .-a O z o JilSJUUY Ui UREATEK INDIANAPOLIS. 13 washed away, and fertile fields were enveredwith sand and gravel. The ravines also made some tnnible liythe seejjage of water, which made it dithcultto get dry cellars along their liius. WhenDavid V. Culley, liegister of the Lai\d Otlice,moved his family here in 1838, they lived fora time in a honse on the point between In-diana avenue and Tennessee street (now Capi-tol avenne) just above New York street. Thewest ravine crossed Tennessee street liack ofliis house, and was furnished with a foot-l)ridge for the accommodation of jiedestrians.One day, in a wet season, his daughter (Mrs.Hannah Mansur) went down cellar for somepeaches and while there the cellar «all cavedin, burying her to the neck. When her mothercame in response to her calls for help, shecried: Send .some one to dig me out. Tvesaved the peaches. Possibly there is a con-nection between this and the fact that Mr.Culley later made th

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