Anderson, Indiana Anderson, Indiana City of Anderson Downtown Anderson Downtown Anderson Location in the state of Indiana Location in the state of Indiana Anderson (Primarily) Anderson is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Madison County, Indiana, United States. It is the principal town/city of the Anderson, Indiana Metropolitan Travel Destination which encompasses Madison County.
Anderson is the command posts of the Church of God (Anderson) and home of Anderson University, which is affiliated with that denomination.
Highlights of the town/city include the historic Paramount Theatre and the Gruenewald Historic House.
Prior to the organization of Madison County, William Conner entered the territory upon which Anderson is located.
Conner later sold the ground to John and Sarah Berry, who donated 32 acres (129,000 m ) of their territory to Madison County on the condition that the governmental center of county be moved from Pendleton to Anderson.
John Berry laid out the first plat of Anderson on November 7, 1827.
In 1828 the seat of justice was moved from Pendleton to Anderson.
The town/city is titled for Chief William "Adam" Anderson, whose mother was a Delaware Indian and whose father was of Swedish descent.
Chief Anderson's Indian name was Kikthawenund meaning "creaking boughs". The Delaware village was known as Anderson's Town, though the Moravian Missionaries called it "The Heathen Town Four Miles Away." Anderson was also known as Andersonton before being formally organized as Anderson.
In December, 1838, Anderson was incorporated as a town with 350 inhabitants.
The Central Canal, a branch of the Wabash and Erie Canal, was prepared to come through Anderson.
This incorporation was short-lived and Anderson once again went back to village status in 1852.
However, with the culmination of the Indianapolis Bellefontaine Railroad, as well as their station in 1852, Anderson burst to life.
The third incorporation of Anderson as a town occurred on June 9, 1853.
On August 28, 1865, with a populace was nearly 1,300 citizens , Anderson was incorporated as a city.
On March 31, 1887, natural gas was identified in Anderson.
As the Indiana Gas Boom began, this discernment led new businesses that could use natural gas, such as glass-making, to move to the city.
Anderson interval to such proportions that a Cincinnati journal editor labeled the town/city "The Pittsburgh on White River." In 1897 the Interurban Railroad was born in Anderson.
The year 1912 spelled disaster for Anderson: the natural gas ran out, due to the inhabitants squandering their resources.
The town/city left its gas powered lights on day and evening, and there are stories of a pocket of natural gas being lit in the river and burning for a prolonged reconstructionfor the spectacle of it.
This club persuaded the Remy brothers to stay in Anderson and the rest to locate there.
The Church of God of Anderson positioned its world command posts in Anderson in 1905.
Anderson Bible School was opened in 1917, and this was separated from Gospel Trumpet (now known as Warner Press) in 1925.
At the same time, it became known as Anderson Bible School and Seminary.
In 1925, the name was changed to Anderson College and then to Anderson University in 1988.
Over the years, 17 different types of automobiles were produced in Anderson with the Lambert family among the city's leaders in its evolution and Buckeye Gasoline Buggy the Lambert product.
Many other inventions were perfected in Anderson including: the gas regulator (Miron G.
Anderson is positioned at 40 06 00 N 85 40 53 W. The town/city of Anderson is positioned in parts of six townships: Anderson, Union, Richland, Lafayette, Adams, and Fall Creek.
According to the 2010 census, Anderson has a total region of 41.479 square miles (107.43 km2), of which 41.37 square miles (107.15 km2) (or 99.74%) is territory and 0.109 square miles (0.28 km2) (or 0.26%) is water. Climate data for Anderson, Indiana Of the extant homeholds 28.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 35.8% were married couples living together, 17.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.6% were non-families.
The median age in the town/city was 37.8 years.
22.4% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 11.5% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 24.8% were from 25 to 44; 24.9% were from 45 to 64; and 16.3% were 65 years of age or older.
There were housing units at an average density of 690.3 per square mile (266.5/km ).
There were 25,274 homeholds out of which 27.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.4% were married couples living together, 15.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.0% were non-families.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows 23.2% under the age of 18, 11.2% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 21.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town/city government consists of a mayor and a town/city council.
When General Motors closed its operations in Anderson, the town/city was dealt a primary economic blow as GM was the biggest employer in Anderson. Nevertheless, in 2007, Anderson was ranked 98th in the Forbes List for 100 Best Places for Businesses among Smaller U.S.
Metro areas. However, a more recent (2014) appraisal of Anderson from the Indiana Business Review was different noting that "long-term trends are negative", citing "a long-term downward trend in region employment" and "acceleration in the number of food stamp recipients".
Indiana state median of $48,248).
25.8% of the city's populace was estimated at living below poverty level, vs.
Statewide estimation of 15.4%. Madison County, of which Anderson is the seat, has nearly three times as many food stamps recipients per capita as does Indiana as a whole. 1 Community Hospital Anderson 1,225 6 Anderson University 500 Anderson Speedway The Anderson Center for the Arts Anderson Public Library In addition to Downtown Historic District, Paramount Theatre, Mounds State Park, and The Anderson Center for the Arts, the Anderson Bank Building, Central Avenue School, Gruenewald House, Tower Hotel, West Central Historic District, and West Eighth Street Historic District are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Anderson's enhance school precinct is the Anderson Community School Corporation, which includes one high school, Anderson High School which serves grades 9 12; one junior high school, Highland Junior High School (formerly Highland High School) which serves grades 6 8, six elementary schools (Eastside, Edgewood, Valley Grove, 10th Street, Erskine, Anderson Elementary) which serve k -5, a kindergarten center (Killbuck), and a preschool (Southview).
Until 1997, Anderson had three high schools: Highland, Madison Heights and Anderson.
In 1997 Madison Heights was closed and Anderson High School moved into that facility.
Beginning in the fall of 2010, Highland High School closed and was converted into a junior high school, consolidating all students in grades 9-12 into Anderson High School.
Anderson also has a charter school (non-traditional, tuition-free enhance school) called Anderson Preparatory Academy.
Currently, Anderson Preparatory Academy features grades K-12.
Anderson Preparatory Academy is a college preliminary, military-based academy.
Anderson University and Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana are also positioned inside the city.
In the comic strip Peanuts, a book in the fictional series beloved by Snoopy, "The Six Bunny Wunnies", is called The Six Bunnie-Wunnies and Their Layover in Anderson, Indiana.
(Charles Schulz had been recently awarded an honorary degree by Anderson College.) Anderson is the home of a several characters in the alternate history novel The Man with the Iron Heart by Harry Turtledove.
Don Brandon, Hall of Fame Baseball Coach from Anderson University Rock, Mayor of Anderson, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Quick - Facts: Anderson, Indiana".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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