Indiana State Fair Poster, 1885
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This poster is from the 1885 Indiana State Fair, located in the area bounded by 19th Street, Talbott Street, 22nd Street, and Central Avenue. The fairgrounds were first located here in 1859. Around 15,000 men were detained in this area when it was used as Camp Morton, a prisoner-of-war camp during the Civil War. In 1873, a new exposition building (pictured) was constructed.
Image Courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.
This file appears in: Carving Out a Community Space: Herron-Morton Neighborhood
Carving Out a Community Space: Herron-Morton Neighborhood
HistoryBetween the mid-1970s and late 1980s, the Herron-Morton Neighborhood located between Talbott Street and 22nd Street, was a center of the LGBT+ community in Indianapolis. The Herron-Morton neighborhood takes its name from the John Herron…