Museum Blog

Thanks to the efforts of Purdue Extension agents across the state, Hoosiers can proudly say there's more than corn in Indiana. This is...

By 1907, the great gas boom in east central Indiana was over and workers were taking up mile upon mile of pipe lines which would be sold...

Two hundred years ago, a great forest of deciduous trees covered what is now Wabash County. We have descriptions of these woods from...

In 2017, an individual from the Pine Ridge Reservation (also called the Pine Ridge Agency) contacted me with the hopes of obtaining...

Last Saturday, Lagro, Indiana was a happening place. The Lagro Canal Foundation hosted a market, trolley tours, and several speakers...

It’s often the unusual, unexpected, or ironic event that makes news, and that was the case here three times over the years when the fire...

Detroit was once a hotbed of pigeon racing, and there was a Wabash connection. The story is that Belgian immigrants, attracted to Detroit...

City bus service, something that had been attempted here before, came back to Wabash in July 1938 when the City Council granted Leppert...

More than eighty years ago, when commercial radio was still relatively new, families often set their household routine by the schedule of...