Connersville, Indiana
City of Connersville, Indiana Body Connersville City Council Website Fayette County/ Connersville Website Connersville is a town/city in Fayette County, east central Indiana, United States, 66 miles east by southeast of Indianapolis.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of and the biggest and only incorporated town in Fayette County. It is home to the county's one and only high school.
Connersville is positioned at 39 39 14 N 85 8 16 W (39.653931, -85.137709). The town is oriented roughly north-south, extending 5 miles north-south and 3 miles east-west from center of town, with most of the town positioned in the southern 2/3.
Annexations have pushed the town/city limits of Connersville north along Indiana 1 (Western Avenue) to the county line.
According to the 2010 census, Connersville has a total region of 7.755 square miles (20.09 km2), of which 7.74 square miles (20.05 km2) (or 99.81%) is territory and 0.015 square miles (0.04 km2) (or 0.19%) is water. Most of the town is positioned on the north bank of the west fork of the Whitewater River.
The small-town region (and all of Fayette County and the state of Indiana) are part of the Eastern (U.S.) Broadleaf Forest Environment biome.
Connersville, IN, gets 41 inches of precipitation per year.
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Connersville is a chartered town/city under the state of Indiana, with an propel mayor, clerk/treasurer and 7-member town/city council.
City government consists of eight departments: Mettel Field/Airport, EMS/First Aid, Fire Department, Parks & Recreation, Police Department, Street Department, Connersville Utilities (water, sewer, storm drains), Transfer Station & Recycling.
See also: Fayette County, Indiana History Connersville is titled for settler John Conner, older brother of William Conner, an early Indiana settler and politician.
Anthony Wayne at Fallen Timbers in 1794, followed on August 3, 1795, by the Treaty of Greenville (Ohio) ceding most of Ohio and a sliver of southeastern Indiana to the United States.
The Valley, running south and southeasterly from east central Indiana to the Ohio River Valley, provided a convenient conduit for migration through Fort Washington (Cincinnati) from points east, settlements on the Ohio River, and pioneer from Kentucky to northern and central Indiana Territory.
An Indian trail alongsideed the river from the Ohio Valley northward to the forks, then went along the East Fork to Eli Creek, thence taking a northwesterly direction passing through what was later Connersville, and then on to the Delaware villages strung along the White River from north of present-day Indianapolis to undivided Muncie.
John Conner, brother William and the rest appeared in the Whitewater Valley in 1802, establishing a fur trading post in an unpopulated region near what was later to turn into Cedar Grove on the Whitewater River (Franklin County) at the very fringe of the white man's penetration into the wilderness of Indiana.
In 1808, as a result of reduction of Indian hunting grounds by treaty, the trading post, known as "Conner's Post", was relocated 20 miles north on the Whitewater River junction with an Indian trail between the Ohio River 70 miles to the southeast and hunting grounds to the north.
This tract encompassed a strip twelve miles in width lying west of the 1795 Greenville treaty line which ran from the midpoint of the Indiana/Ohio border southwest to the Ohio River cutting off a thin wedge of southeastern Indiana.
Sales of enhance territory by the United States Government in Indiana began in 1801.
In that year the Cincinnati, Ohio, Land Office began selling territory in a wedge of government territory in southeastern Indiana known as the "Gore" (organized as Dearborn County in 1803) which encompassed all of what is today Fayette County.
John Conner laid out the town on the north side of the west fork of the Whitewater River in March 1813 adjoining to the fur trading post.
The first constructions in the town were a saw foundry and grist foundry north of town utilizing water power, and a general store and distillery in town.
1818, and Connersville was chosen as the county seat.
The first postal service in Connersville opened in January, 1818. The first courthouse was started in 1819 and rather than in 1822. The first newspaper, the Indiana Statesman, was started in 1824.
A seminary building was constructed in 1828, later razed, and the first regular school building in Connersville was constructed on the site in 1858.
The Indiana Gazetteer in 1833 stated the populace of Connersville as 500.
Connersville served as an meaningful link on the Whitewater Canal linking the Whitewater River to the Ohio River, opened in 1847. The canal ceased to be used for through traffic in 1849, though limited small-town commerce continued.
The first barns , the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Indianapolis Railroad, reached Connersville in 1864.
It extended from Rushville through Connersville and Oxford to Hamilton, Ohio.
The Roots blower, a type of air turbine, was invented by the Roots brothers in Connersville in the 1850s, patented in 1859 and produced in Connersville for over 150 years.
The town of Connersville became a chartered town/city in June, 1869, and William H.
The Connersville Electric Light Company commenced operations in August 1890 as the first supplier of electric power in the city.
Prior to the advent of automotive manufacturing, Connersville for decades was colloquially known as the "furniture and buggy town" because of the dominance of those two industries in the town.
At Connersville High School. Automobiles produced in Connersville include Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Ansted, Empire, Lexington and Mc - Farlan.
The Willys MB Jeep body was produced in Connersville amid the 1940s.
Louis, got its start in Connersville in 1921 by acquisition of Wainwright Engineering, a privately held small-town company manufacturing automotive engines.
In 1969, it was acquired by Eaton, Yale & Towne, and closed its Connersville and Indianapolis plants in 1983.
Fayette County Public Library housing over 139,000 volumes of books and other media, is positioned in the city.
Whitewater Memorial State Park is positioned on a 200-acre lake about 10 miles southeast by east of Connersville near Liberty, Indiana.
Shrader-Weaver Woods Nature Preserve, about 4 miles northwest of Connersville, is 108 acres of pristine woodland offering hiking.
It is positioned about 5 miles southwest of Connersville.
See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Fayette County, Indiana The Whitewater Valley Railroad is a 19-mile-long operating scenic barns and exhibition between Connersville and Metamora.
Fayette County Historical Museum is positioned in the city.
Connersville from the air, looking west.
The Park is home to the Fayette County Free Fair, one of the last no-charge fairs remaining in the state.
About 55% of Fayette county's populace lives in the town.
There is no commercial air or rail (freight) service to Connersville.
Freight moves into and out of Connersville by truck, principally via State Road 1 and Interstate 70 to Indianapolis, and State Road 1, U.S.
Mettel Field is a private aviation airport positioned three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central company precinct of Connersville.
It is owned by the Connersville Board of Aviation Commissioners. The nearest commercial airport is Cincinnati International Airport, 62 miles to the southeast.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Connersville.
There is no transit bus service to Connersville, but small-town enhance transit is available to all inhabitants by calling the enhance transit office.
Indiana 1.svg Indiana State Road 1 runs north-south through downtown Connersville north to beyond Fort Wayne and south to Lawrenceburg Indiana 44.svg Indiana State Road 44 runs east-west through downtown Connersville west to Martinsville and east to the Ohio state line Indiana 121.svg Indiana State Road 121 runs north-south from intersection with SR44 in downtown Connersville south to Metamora Connersville City Cemetery, In the middle of town, Dale Cemetery, just west of downtown, and Tullis Chapel Cemetery, 3 miles southwest of town, are the only small-town cemeteries.
Fayette Regional Hospital, positioned in the north central part of town, is Fayette County's only hospital.
All enhance schools belong to the Fayette County School Corporation.
There are about 1,200 students in high school, 700 in middle school, 1,800 in enhance elementary schools, and 300 in parochial elementary schools (as of 2012).
The Connersville Center offers extension courses through Indiana University East.
Connersville High School Connersville Middle School (formerly Junior High North formerly Connersville Sr.
Whitewater Career Center (formerly Connersville Area Vocational School) Connersville has a daily journal called The News Examiner in continuous printed announcement (including predecessor papers) since 1849.
Radio station WLPK-AM 1580, owned by Rodgers Broadcasting Corporation and licensed to Connersville, operates with small-town programming and classic hits format.
For many years Connersville simulcast AM/FM WCNB/WIFE radio.
Connersville High School's daily TV news program, CHS Today, was the first student-produced TV news program in the United States. It began in 1970 with presenters Dennis Sullivan and Ron Stevens.
Basketball, 1972 Graduate of Connersville High School, and member of 1972 Indiana High School basketball champions. Gray is buried in Dale Cemetery, positioned on Memorial Drive in Connersville.
Gray Road, on the west side of Connersville, is titled for him.
Scott Halberstadt, tv actor, was born in Connersville in 1976 and graduated from Connersville High School in 1994.
Hall, nation singer and Grand Ole Opry member, spent time in Connersville early in his longterm position and wrote "Thank You, Connersville" about the experience.
Matt Howard, a three-time Academic All-American starting forward for Butler University's men's basketball team who has since played professionally for a several European teams, is a 2007 graduate of Connersville High School. He played in the 2010 and 2011 NCAA Championship games. In February 2011, Howard was chose as the top Academic All-American in the University category (chosen from all twelve Academic All-America teams, including football). Huston, Treasurer of the United States 1889 91, lived in Connersville most of his life, beginning a small-town bank, Citizen's Bank.
April Mc - Divitt, 1999 Indiana Miss Basketball and four-time Academic All-American, is a graduate of Connersville High School.
Pereyra, founder of Going Bonkers Magazine, raised in Connersville, Indiana and attended middle school and high school. Betsy Ross, former ESPN anchor, graduate of Connersville High School, now freelance broadcaster/emcee in Cincinnati, Ohio. Robert Wise, one of Hollywood's most acclaimed administrators and producers, graduated from Connersville High School in 1932.
Connersville Township, Fayette County, Indiana History of Fayette County, Indiana: Containing a History of the Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.
Chamber of Commer history of Connersville City of Connersville, Indiana website IN-7, "Connersville Industrial Park, Eleventh & Twenty-first Streets, Connersville, Fayette County, IN" Municipalities and communities of Fayette County, Indiana, United States
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