Richmond, Indiana City of Richmond, Indiana Wayne County Courthouse in Richmond Wayne County Courthouse in Richmond Location in the state of Indiana Location in the state of Indiana Richmond / r t m nd/ is a town/city in east central Indiana, United States, bordering on Ohio.
It is the governmental center of county of Wayne County, and in the 2010 census had a populace of 36,812.
Situated largely inside Wayne Township, its region includes a non-contiguous portion in close-by Boston Township where the Richmond Municipal Airport is located.
The town/city is sometimes called the "cradle of recorded jazz" because some early jazz records were made there at the studio of Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company. The town/city has twice received the All-America City Award, most recently in 2009.
Richmond is positioned at 39 49 49 N 84 53 26 W. According to the 2010 census, Richmond has a total region of 24.067 square miles (62.33 km2), of which 23.91 square miles (61.93 km2) (or 99.35%) is territory and 0.157 square miles (0.41 km2) (or 0.65%) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 36,812 citizens , 15,098 homeholds, and 8,909 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 83.9% White, 8.6% African American, 0.3% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.9% from other competitions, and 4.0% from two or more competitions.
As of the census of 2000, there were 39,124 citizens , 16,287 homeholds, and 9,918 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 86.78% White, 8.87% African American, 0.27% Native American, 0.80% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 1.09% from other competitions, and 2.14% from two or more competitions.
Richmond lies on the flat lands of easterly Indiana.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 11.0% from 18 to 24, 27.5% from 25 to 44, 21.6% from 45 to 64, and 16.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
About 12.1% of families and 15.7% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 22.8% of those under age 18 and 10.8% of those age 65 or over.
Richmond is still home to a several Quaker establishments, including Friends United Meeting, Earlham College and the Earlham School of Religion.
The first postal service in Richmond was established in 1818. Early cinema and tv pioneer Charles Francis Jenkins grew-up on a farm north of Richmond, where he began inventing useful gadgets.
As the Richmond Telegram reported, on June 6, 1894, Jenkins gathered his family, friends and newsmen at Jenkins' cousin's jewelry store in downtown Richmond and projected a filmed motion picture for the first time in front of an audience.
Richmond is believed[by whom?] to have been the smallest improve in the United States to have supported a experienced opera business and symphony orchestra.
The Whitewater Opera has since closed but the Richmond Symphony Orchestra has continued.
In the 1920s amid the nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Indiana had the biggest Klan organization in the country, led by Grand Dragons D.
At its height, nationwide membership amid the second Klan boss reached 1.5 million, with 300,000 from Indiana.
Records show that Richmond (home to Whitewater Klan #60) and Wayne County were Klan strongholds, with up to 45 percent of the county's white males having been Klan members.
Forty percent of Richmond's Kiwanis club members, thirty percent of its doctors, and 27 percent of its lawyers were Klan members, but none of the city's bank executives or most powerful company leaders were members. In 1923 a reported 30,000 citizens watched a Klan parade through Richmond streets. In 1922, Robert Lyons introduced the Klan in Richmond, initially by recruiting at Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church where his father had been pastor until his death seven years earlier. The Klan polished its reputation by making contributions of cash and goods to Protestant churches and organizations, including the Salvation Army. Thomas Barr, son of Daisy Douglas Barr, nationally prominent Quaker minister and Klan official, attended Earlham College and was a KKK ground recruiter. Also notable was the fact that Hoagy Carmichael recorded "Stardust" for the first time in Richmond at the Gennett recording studio.
A group of artists in the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries came to be known as the Richmond Group.
The Richmond Art Museum has a compilation of county-wide and American art. Many consider the most momentous painting in the compilation to be a self-portrait of Indiana-born William Merritt Chase. One of the extant Madonna of the Trail monuments was dedicated at Richmond on October 28, 1928 The monument sits in a corner of Glen Miller Park adjoining to US 40.
Richmond's cultural resources include two of Indiana's three Egyptian mummies.
One is held by the Wayne County Historical Museum and the second by Earlham College's Joseph Moore Museum, dominant to the small-town nickname of "Mummy capital of Indiana". Richmond was once known as "the lawn mower capital" because it was a center for manufacturing of lawn mowers from the late 19th century through the mid-20th century.
The farm machinery builder Gaar-Scott was based in Richmond.
The Davis Aircraft Co., builder of a light parasol wing monoplane, directed in Richmond beginning in 1929.
After starting out in close-by Union City, Wayne Agricultural Works moved to Richmond.
Wayne was a manufacturer of horse-drawn vehicles, including "kid hacks", a precursor of the motorized school bus.
From the early 1930s through the 1940s, a several automobile designers and manufacturers were positioned in Richmond.
Among the automobiles locally produced were the Richmond, assembled by the Wayne Works; the "Rodefeld"; the Davis; the Pilot; the Westcott and the Crosley.
In the 1950s, Wayne Works changed its name to Wayne Corporation, by then a well-known bus and school-bus manufacturer.
Richmond was known as the "Rose City" because of the many varieties once grown there by Hill's Roses.
The annual Richmond Rose Festival honored the rose trade and was a prominent summer attraction.
Richmond is noted for its rich stock of historic architecture.
In 2003, a book entitled Richmond Indiana: Its Physical Development and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920 by Cornell University architectural historians, Michael and Mary Raddant Tomlan, was presented by the Indiana Historical Society.
Five large districts, such as the Depot District, and a several individual buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Historic American Buildings Survey and the Historic American Engineering Record.
Richmond has four colleges: Earlham College, Indiana University East, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, and the Purdue Polytechnic Institute - Richmond.
Richmond is home to two seminaries: Earlham School of Religion (Quaker) and Bethany Theological Seminary (Church of the Brethren) Richmond High School includes the Richmond Art Museum and Civic Hall Performing Arts Center and the Tiernan Center, the 5th-largest high school gym in the United States.
Seton Catholic High School (founded 2002), a junior and senior high school, is a theological high school.
Andrew Church of the Richmond Catholic Community.
New Creations Christian School, positioned on the ground of New Creations Chapel, serves elementary, middle school, and high school students.
The Richmond Japanese Language School ( IN Ritchimondo(IN)Hoshu Jugyo Ko) a part-time Japanese school, holds its classes at the Highland Heights School. Richmond is the command posts of Friends United Meeting, and hosts the Quaker Hill Conference Center, of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Richmond Municipal Airport is a public-use airport positioned five nautical miles (6 mi, 9 km) southeast of the central company precinct of Richmond.
It is owned by the Richmond Board of Aviation Commissioners.
Richmond is served by Interstate 70 at exits 149, 151, 153, and 156.
Richmond is also served by WJYW which is repeated on 94.5 and 97.7.
Richmond is considered to be inside the Dayton, Ohio, tv market and has one full-power tv station, WKOI, which is affiliated with TBN.
Hicksite Friends Meeting House, 1150 North A Street, Richmond, Indiana, now homes the Wayne County Historical Museum.
Wayne County Historical Museum Richmond Art Museum Richmond Downtown Historic District Old Richmond Historic District Richmond Railroad Station Historic District Richmond Civic Theatre (plays, classic movies, and children's theater) a b "G001 - Geographic Identifiers - 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1".
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