Our past, their present
Subtitle: historical essays on Putnam County, Indiana
By: by John J. Baughman
Contributors: Putnam County Museum (Ind.)
Series: Publication No. 1
Publisher: Putnam County Museum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Greencastle, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
Subjects: Biography; History
Notes: Consists of a collection of essays written 1993-2001.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 464-470) and index.
Table of contents: title: Early Putnam County land rush (Jan. 1995); title: Ten O' Clock Line (Feb. 1997); title: Putnam County place names (Feb. 1993); title: Ephraim Dukes (May 1998); title: Putnam County court houses (April 1994); title: Greencastle before the Civil War (Jan. 1996); title: Ghost towns and lost communities (Dec. 1997); title: Early Greencastle schools (July 1997); title: Early Greencastle churches (April 1998); title: Greencastle founding fathers of the University (May 2000); title: National Road and the opening of Putnam County (July 1999); title: Early Greencastle and college relations (June 1996); title: Alexander C. Stevenson, the county's most famous citizen (June 1993); title: Western Plough Boy, Greencastle's early newspaper (Sept. 2000); title: County militia "protects" us from Indian attack (Oct. 1999); title: The Gillespie-Lynch home from 1830 (July 2000); title: First murder and execution by hanging (Aug. 1994); title: Roberts gravesite on the DePauw campus (Dec. 1994); title: Methodist Roberts Chapel, Presbyterian Church (May 2001); title: Butternuts: Putnam County's Confederate sympathizers (March 1999); title: Abraham Lincoln's relationship with Greencastle (Nov. 1999); title: The saga of Harper Evans and the Groveland murder (Aug. 1998); title: The county remembers with the Civil War monument (May 1996); title: Putnam County railroads, essential for progress (Sept. 2002); title: Harmonia College of Russellville (Sept. 1994); title: Putnamville metropolis on the National Road (Aug. 1993); title: Famous old East College (April 2001); title: Disastrous and challenging fires of 1874 and 1875 (Oct. 2002); title: Opera house for everybody (March 1993); title: Seller's cave: not just for college students (May 1997); title: The strange Mill Creek township (June 1995); title: Shh! We don't have a county poor farm (July 1996); title: Our African-American heritage, exodusters of 1879 (Jan. 1998); title: Charming and historic Clinton Falls (May 1994); title: Early Greencastle water supply (March 1998); title: Industrial development, the Iron and Nail Factory (April 1993); title: Saloons and temperance (Sept. 1997); title: Lighting Greencastle with electricity (Jan. 1994); title: Horticulture and the Ragans of Fillmore (Oct. 1997); title: Unique McKim Observatory (Nov. 1995); title: DePauw in fiction: David Graham Phillips (Feb. 1998); title: The famous and dignified "Towers" home (Dec. 1995); title: Greencastle's horse drawn street car line (July 1993); title: Greencastle livery stables (Jan. 2001); title: The imposing Lockridge-Allison home (June 1997); title: Popular president Hillary Asbury Gobin of DePauw (July 1998); title: A house on Liberty Street (Nov. 1998); title: The O'Hairs, a growth industry (Sept. 1998); title: Familiar sight: Brick Chapel (Aug. 1996); title: The Greencastle Lilly heritage (Nov. 2000); title: Eli Lilly and Greencastle (Dec. 2000); title: Lincoln scholar, Jesse Weik (Oct. 1996); title: Elisha Cowgill, Greencastle artist (Oct. 1994); title: James W. Cole, pumps and lightning rods (June 1999); title: African Methodist Episcopal Church (Feb. 1995.); title: Pearl Bryan, Greencastle's most famous girl (Sept. 1996); title: Putnam County 1900 (Dec. 1999); title: Greencastle hotels (May 1993); title: Cupola House, a Christmas story (Dec. 1993); title: Russellville, a treasure for Putnam County (Jan. 2000); title: Some famous physicians (Jan. 1999); title: Fern Cliff, everybody's nature park (Sept. 1995); title: Bainbridge, story of continuous success (June 1998); title: Greencastle post office (March 1996); title: More women's clubs than women (March 2001); title: The successful Roachdale library (April 1996); title: Our beloved interurban (july 1995); title: Forgotten township of Jackson (Oct. 2000); title: American presidential visits to Greencastle (March 1994); title: The Methodist Children's Home (July 1994); title: The Barnaby sawmill (Dec. 1996); title: World War I in Putnam County (June 1994); title: Greencastle High School (Aug. 1999); title: Dr. Overstreet, 46 years as dentist (April 1997); title: Robe-Ann Park (Nov. 1993); title: Our first county hospital (Nov. 1994); title: Greencastle first radio station (Nov. 1996); title: Greencastle bookstores (Oct. 1998); title: The Crawford Hotel (June 2001); title: Lueteke: everyone's favorite baker (May 1999); title: Reelsville-Pleasant Gardens (July 2001); title: Martha Jane Ridpath, feminist ahead of her time (Feb. 1994); title: Dancing at DePauw (Sept. 1993); title: Adam Wagner, shoeshiner extraordinaire (April 1995); title: DePauw jazz of the 1920s (March 1997); title: Bank robbery: John Dillinger's half hour in Greencastle (March 2000); title: Indiana State Farm: early history (Jan. 1997); title: Town photographer, J. O. Cammack (Feb. 1996); title: Two noteworthy Greencastle educators (Feb. 2001); title: Our Catholic St. Paul's Academy (Nov. 1997); title: An Air Force plane crash in World War Greencastle (Aug. 1995); title: Buzz bomb (May 1995); title: The 1957 Putnam County flood (Aug. 1997); title: DePauw College student hangouts (April 1999); title: Putnam County Fair (March 1995); title: Dean of Men, Louis Dirks (Sept. 1999); title: Greencastle's movie houses (Dec. 1998); title: Three popular restaurants (Oct. 1993); title: Greencastle's zinc mill (June 2000); title: Two women physicians before their time (Aug. 2000); title: Asbury Towers for seniors (April 2000); title: History preservation and who did it (Aug. 2001); title: Greencastle neighborhoods.