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Paul Revere’s Many Rides
April 18, 2025
A scrap of paper in the Massachusetts State Archives tells a great story. Dated August 1775, it is an invoice for £11, one shilling (about $2,000 today) submitted to the Massachusetts provincial government by Paul Revere.
Most people got married in June because they took their yearly bath in May, and they still smelled pretty good by June. Since they were starting to smell, however, brides carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odor. Hence the custom today of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
By Stephen Saalman
A rich silver mine has recently come to light in Harrison Township, Spencer County, IN. The deposit of ore is said to occupy an extensive belt, beginning in Martin County and running southeast into Dubois, the northern part of Spencer, Perry and on into Crawford County.
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Ohio River
Buzzard Roost, Indiana
Stephen Saalman
There is an ancient Indian spiral petroglyph on the Indiana side along the river at Buzzard Roost. The petroglyph is in the form of a spiral snake carved into stone, and river floods have eroded some of it over the hundreds and possibly thousands of years since it was carved.
Stephen Saalman
Perry County, Indiana
On River Rd. (soon to be reopened) between Tell City and Cannelton was the location of "Fulton's Mine," said to be the first used in Indiana, and in 1811, to have furnished coal to the first steam boat on the Ohio River, the "New Orleans," which was owned by Robert Fulton and piloted by Nicholas Roosevelt. This area has great cliffs of massive sandstone, which belittle the narrow river valley below.
Galerie Bilderwelt // Getty Images
Rangers led the way in the D-Day landings 80 years ago
Among the 150,000 soldiers who landed on and fought across the hostile beaches of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, were 1,000 members of a new, specially trained unit – the U.S. Army Rangers.
Wesselman Woods in Evansville is the largest tract of urban old-growth forest in the United States.
The land was once occupied by Indigenous cultures including the Miami, Wea and Shawnee.