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Ainsworth, Indiana
http://ainsworthindiana.blogspot.com
An amateur historian desultorily researches Ainsworth, Indiana (which no longer exists); life and and a camera beside the Grand Trunk Railroad.
- Added on: Aug 26th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Ainsworthiana
- Listed in: History Personal
- Tags: history maps hobart railroad wildflowers ainsworth
Recent Posts
Commerce: Popp
The Popp Family (click on image to enlarge)When I wasn't looking, Charles (pictured above) and Lucy Popp swept into Ainsworth and opened a grocery store. The first I ever heard of these two was when Lucy made it into Along the Route for getting hers...
Train Graffiti
A freight train stopped in Ainsworth this morning.(Click on image to enlarge)I hustled out there with my camera to get some pictures of chalk and other line graffiti.♦ ♦ ♦The newspaper a...
Grand Trunk Western Transit Freight Waybill 1957
Here it is, folks, the post you've been waiting for — an unused 1957 Grand Trunk Railroad Freight Waybill!Grand Trunk Western RR Waybill 1957 I have reached the pinnacle. I can end my blog no...
The Clearing in the Woods
If you go wandering in Deep River County Park north of the railroad bridge, you might accidentally stray from the path, inadvertently fight your way through the blackberry thorns, unmindfully duck and weave through the low-hanging branches, coinciden...
The Wandering Post Office
(Click on images to enlarge)The Ainsworth Post Office, in its 52-year existence, revolved clockwise around the Ainsworth Triangle to end exactly where it began. (1) In January 1882, Ainsworth's first post office opened in a general store (I think th...
Hobart Then and Now: Main Street, West Side
Post-1907 and 2009(Click on images to enlarge)We're on Main Street, looking at the west side, facing south from a point slightly north of Third StreetThe postcard has been used but somehow escaped a postmark. Although the Strattan building (the big ...
