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Terre Haute, Indiana City of Terre Haute Downtown Terre Haute, looking southwest Downtown Terre Haute, looking southwest Official seal of Terre Haute, Indiana Airports Terre Haute Regional Airport Public transit Terre Haute Transit Terre Haute (/ t r ho t/ terr- hoht) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, near the state's border with Illinois.
Located along the Wabash River, Terre Haute is the self-proclaimed capital of the Wabash Valley.
The town/city is home to a several higher education establishments, including Indiana State University, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Terre Haute is notable for being the home of Socialist Party of America prestige and five-time presidential nominee, Eugene V.
3.1 Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex 7.1 Terre Haute Parks Department 7.4 Baseball The Terre Haute Rex Terre Haute is positioned alongside the easterly bank of the Wabash River in Indiana.
According to the 2010 census, Terre Haute has a total region of 35.272 square miles (91.35 km2), of which 34.54 square miles (89.46 km2) (or 97.92%) is territory and 0.732 square miles (1.90 km2) (or 2.08%) is water. In the late 19th century (particularly amid the Terre Haute Oil Craze of 1889), a several petroleum and mineral wells were productive in and near the center of the city.
Pioneer Oil of Lawrenceville, IL, began drilling for petroleum at 10th and Chestnut streets on the Indiana State University ground in late December 2013, the first petroleum well drilled in downtown Terre Haute since 1903. That well produced petroleum into the 1920s.
Terre Haute is at the intersection of two primary roadways: U.S.
(US 41 is now locally titled "3rd Street," but historically it was "7th Street," making "7th and Wabash" the Crossroads of America.) Terre Haute is positioned 77 miles (124 km) southwest of Indianapolis and inside 185 miles (298 km) of Chicago, St.
Climate data for Terre Haute, IN (1981-2010) Terre Haute's name was derived from the French phrase terre haute (pronounced [t ot] in French), meaning "Highland." (Terre Haute's presently affiliated Order of the Arrow lodge of the Boy Scouts of America is titled after the last prestige of the Wea village, Jacco Godfroy.) The village of Terre Haute, then a part of Knox County, Indiana, was platted in 1816.
When the village's 1,000 inhabitants voted to incorporate in 1832, Terre Haute became a town, and later in 1853 it officially became a city.
Early Terre Haute was a center of farming, milling and pork processing.
The Wabash River, the building of the National Road (now US 40) and the Wabash and Erie Canal linked Terre Haute to the world and broadened the city's range of influence.
Terre Haute's position as an educational core was fostered as a several establishments of college studies were established.
On the evening of Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913, a primary tornado hit Terre Haute at approximately 9:45 p.m. It completed more than 300 homes, killed twenty-one citizens and injured 250. Damage to small-town businesses and industries was estimated at $1 million to $2 million (in 1913 dollars).
By midday on Tuesday, March 25, West Terre Haute (Taylorville) was three-quarters submerged. On Saturday June 16, 1923, and through to the following dawn, the biggest Ku Klux Klan rally ever held in Indiana took place in Forest Park, five miles (eight point zero kilometres) north of Terre Haute.
Proceeds from the rally were to build a $100,000 Klan home just north of Terre Haute.
Communities, Terre Haute experienced economic swings as the country's economic base has evolved.
Economy to a halt, outside influences such as Prohibition and the diminish of the country's barns s had a negative effect on two of Terre Haute's primary industries - distilleries/breweries and the barns repair works.
Terre Haute remained dependent on consumer manufacturers such as Quaker Maid, the world's biggest food refining factory under one roof.
1943 saw the opening of the country's 100th United Service Organizations (USO) facility in Terre Haute.
Following the war, Terre Haute attained several new factories: Pfizer Chemical (1948), Allis-Chalmers (1951), Columbia Records (1954), and Anaconda Aluminum (1959).
Yet, the face of downtown Terre Haute began to change in the late 1960s when Interstate 70 was built, passing through Vigo County about five miles south of the path of U.S.
The Terre Haute Committee for Area Progress advanced the Fort Harrison Industrial Park in the 1970s.
Grow Terre Haute in the mid-1980s urged on the establishment of new stores, factories, and high-tech industrialized parks that helped to stabilize the economy and movement community life.
Like other Midwest manufacturing cities, Terre Haute faced daunting challenges as it neared the end of the 20th century.
Downtown Terre Haute.
The accomplishments of the Terre Haute Economic Development Corporation, in cooperation with town/city and county government, have made the Industrial Park home to some of the world's dominant companies Companhia Siderurgica Nacional's (CSN's) cold-roll steel refining facility, Staples Corporation's Midwest Distribution Center, Advics automotive brake systems manufacturing facility and Thyssen - Krupp Presta's automotive steering systems manufacturing facility and Certain - Teed's fiber cement board manufacturing plant.
The revitalization of the downtown region can be traced to the assembly of First Financial Bank's new command posts building in the late 1980s and creation of the city's first tax increment financing (TIF) district, which funded the first downtown parking structure.
With the accomplishments of nonprofit groups such as Downtown Terre Haute and the expansion of the ground of Indiana State University, many positive shifts have once again spurred expansion downtown.
Several new hotels and businesses have been added to the "Crossroads of America" near 7th & Wabash, outside events and celebrations attract crowds nearly every weekend amid the summer months and the 7th Street Arts Corridor and Terre Haute Children's Museum, instead of in 2010, movement the appeal of the downtown area.
In 2015 Indiana State University partnered with developers to build a student housing facility in the heart of downtown.
In addition to significant, recent advancements in manufacturing, downtown revitalization and higher education, Terre Haute continues to be a primary county-wide center for community care, retail shopping, recreation, entertainment and the arts.
City of Terre Haute Terre Haute Regional Hospital Duke Bennett, Republican, began his third term as Terre Haute's mayor in January 2016.
Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex Terre Haute is the locale of the Federal Correctional Complex, positioned on Highway 63, two miles south of the city.
The complex includes a medium security Federal Correctional Institution and a high security United States Penitentiary. The penitentiary homes the Special Confinement Unit for inmates serving federal death sentences. On June 11, 2001, Timothy James Mc - Veigh, convicted of use of a weapon of mass destruction in the Oklahoma City Bombing, was put to death there by lethal injection.
Terre Haute is served by the Vigo County School Corporation.
Terre Haute is also home to multiple college studies establishments.
Indiana State University (ISU) is positioned in downtown Terre Haute.
Ivy Tech Community College, a full-service improve college, and Harrison College are also positioned in the city.
Terre Haute is served by two airports.
The Terre Haute Regional Airport is home to Hulman Field (HUF).
Terre Haute International Airport also homes a flight academy thru Indiana State University. Sky King Airport is 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Terre Haute and mostly serves as training and recreational flights.
Terre Haute is served by multiple exits.
Exit 3 serves West Terre Haute, Indiana via Darwin Road, which provides easy access to downtown Terre Haute via US 150.
Exit 1 onto National Drive is marked for both Terre Haute and West Terre Haute, but is only accessible via the eastbound lanes of I-70.
US 40 ran through Terre Haute on Wabash Ave., but in January 2011 INDOT gave the road to the town/city and paid the town/city to take care of Wabash Ave.
It is the chief north-south thoroughfare on Terre Haute's west side.
US 150.svg US 150 enters Terre Haute from neighboring West Terre Haute, Indiana.
SR 63 enters Terre Haute on the city's north side crossing the Wabash River.
SR 641, also known as the Terre Haute Bypass, is a universal presently underway by INDOT.
The Terre Haute Transit Utility provides bus service via seven day and three evening routes throughout the city.
Terre Haute has been recognized as a Tree City USA by the Division of Forestry for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources since 1999 and also received the Growth Award, which notes a higher standard of excellence for urban forestry management.
Terre Haute Parks Department The Terre Haute Parks Department owns over 1,000 acres (400 ha) of dedicated land, including improve parks, neighborhood parks, block parks, two golf courses, as well as trails, greenways, and boulevards. Some highlights of the Terre Haute Parks Department include: Deming Park - positioned on the East side of Terre Haute at Fruitridge and Ohio Boulevard.
It is home to the Oakley Playground, Clark-Lansdbaum Holly Arboretum, an 18-hole disc golf course, a enhance pool, the Spirit of Terre Haute Minitature Train, and a range of sport facilities including basketball and tennis courts. Dobbs Park - positioned on the East Side of Terre Haute, Dobbs Park is a unique City Park which includes a Nature Center and a Native American Museum with an heirloom garden, a 3-acre (1.2 ha) pond, a restored prairie, a butterfly garden, and 3 miles (4.8 km) of trails which will take you past restored wetlands, through pine woods, old expansion and second expansion forest as well as a 25-acre (10 ha) State Nature Preserve. National Road Heritage Trail a multi-use paved trail extending approximately 6.5 miles (10.5 km) from the Twigg Rest Area, to the Indiana State University ground downtown.
The facility is part of 240 acres (0.97 km2) that comprise the Wabash Valley Family Sports Center east of Terre Haute.
Indiana State University's Cross-Country team uses the Gibson Course for its home meets.
The Country Club of Terre Haute Baseball The Terre Haute Rex The Terre Haute Rex is Terre Haute's collegiate summer baseball team, established in 2010.
The team gets its name from a product with a historic connection to the community, Rex Coffee, roasted and packed in downtown Terre Haute by Clabber Girl Corporation and for many years a homehold name athwart the Midwest.
The Rex is building on a rich history of experienced baseball in Terre Haute stretching back to 1884 that includes some of the most famous names associated with the game, including Hall-of-Famers Mordecai Brown and Max Carey, Josh Devore, Negro League Baseball All-Star Junius Bibbs, Vic Aldridge, Art Nehf (who holds the National League record for most World Series games pitched), Paul "Dizzy" Trout, Jumbo Jim Elliott, Harry Taylor and Bill Butland.
Terre Haute North grad Josh Phegley is presently a member of the Oakland A's, and Terre Haute South grad A.J.
Terre Haute has made a very valiant accomplishment to revitalize the businesses and culture in its downtown district.
From festivals, exhibitions, restaurants, shopping, and the addition of multiple hotels in the region it has greatly improved the overall image of downtown Terre Haute.
Its revitalization accomplishments were recognized in 2010 when the Indiana Chamber of Commerce titled Terre Haute Indiana's Community of the Year. Located on Seventh Street between Wabash Avenue and Ohio Street, Terre Haute Arts Corridor includes the Swope Art Museum as well as two arcades: the Halcyon Contemporary Art Gallery and Gopalan Contemporary Art. The first Friday of every month features art openings, musical performances, and socializing. The Turman Art Gallery at Indiana State University features rotating exhibitions by student and faculty artists.
The cornerstone of the Terre Haute Arts Corridor is the historic Indiana Theater.
Terre Haute is home to a several arts non-profits, including Wabash Valley Art Spaces and Arts Illiana.
Community Theatre of Terre Haute presented its first shows in 1928. A staple of the Terre Haute arts scene, Community Theatre is a volunteer theatre producing five varied chief stage plays and musical productions per year.
Terre Haute also features the Crossroads Repertory Theatre, a experienced theater business with over a 40-year history.
The ground of Indiana State University holds a Performing Arts Series as well to give its students and the improve the opportunity to appreciate the arts and world-class entertainment at an affordable price.
Terre Haute has multiple music venues and a strong music community.
Terre Haute is also the place of birth of musician/actor Scatman Crothers.
The Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra is the earliest experienced orchestra in the state of Indiana, predating the Indianapolis Symphony by four years.
The Terre Haute Symphony started as a volunteer group of musicians who provided improve entertainment, and has evolved into a group of highly skilled, paid experienced musicians who complete auditions to demonstrate their skill level.
Terre Haute is also home to various other music organizations such as the Terre Haute Community Band, Terre Haute Sinfonietta Pops Orchestra, Terre Haute Children's Choir, Terre Haute Masterworks Chorale, Banks of the Wabash Chorus which performs in Harmony Hall, the Sweet Harmony Women's Barbershop Chorus and The Wabash Valley Musicians Hall of Fame.
Terre Haute native Paul Dresser was a late-nineteenth-century singer, actor, songwriter, and music publisher, who became "one of the most meaningful composers of the 1890s". In 1913 the Indiana General Assembly titled Dresser's biggest hit, "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away" as the state song of Indiana. The Paul Dresser Birthplace in Fairbanks Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Vigo County Historical Society operates the property as a exhibition, open by appointment. In 2014, a bronze sculpture, sponsored by Art Spaces and created by Teresa Clark to jubilate the composer, was dedicated in Fairbanks Park near the Dresser House. The exhibition will be moving to downtown Terre Haute into a 40,000 square foot, four-level building that was constructed in 1895.
This move will problematic a triangle of exhibitions downtown with the Terre Haute Children's Museum and the Clabber Girl Museum just blocks away.
The three-story Children's Museum is at the intersection of Wabash Avenue and Eighth Street in downtown Terre Haute.
The Clabber Girl Museum is positioned at Wabash and Ninth Street in downtown Terre Haute.
The Indiana Association of Track & Field and Cross Country Museum is a new addition to the Terre Haute Convention & Visitors Bureau.
- Wabash Valley Outdoor Sculpture Collection; Arts Illiana; and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Permanent Art Collections provided arts, cultural, surroundingal and educational affairs throughout 2013 that concentrated on the Wabash River, and how it affects our lives.
Terre Haute has three sister town/city relationships: One well known Terre Haute legend is the story of Stiffy Green, a contemporary bulldog that allegedly at one time guarded the mausoleum of florist John G.
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