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Indianapolis metropolitan area

  • IndianapolisOn the 6th of January 1821, the Indiana General Assembly named a new capital city Indianapolis. Surveyors Alexander Ralston and Elias Pym Fordham designed a…
  • Westfield, IndianaOn the 6th of May 1834, three men from North Carolina named Asa Bales, Ambrose Osborne, and Simon Moon laid out the first streets of Westfield.
  • Carmel, IndianaIn the 1820s, the United States government put lands in what is now Hamilton County up for sale. Farmers flocked to the west bank of the White River seeking…