This is Dean Breymeyer's typewritten account of the history of Mudlavia Hotel in Warren County Indiana, collected by Stuart L. McDonald. This document lists what is in the water at the spring near Mudlavia Hotel.
Photograph of heavy water production facility. In 1943, du Pont was awarded a contract to build a heavy water production facility to support the research and development of the atomic bomb. Heavy water production took place between 1944 and 1946...
Jeff LaBaw's transcribed interview of Charlie Perdieu's account of a weather lore that explains that the position of the moon,if it looks like it can hold water, it wont rain.
Journalism; Indiana State Normal School; Education; Literature; College yearbooks;
A monthly journal written and published by the students and faculty of Indiana State Normal School. The last issue of the school year was dedicated to the graduating senios and printed in the style of an annual yearbook.
This is Scott Dean's typewritten account of a Blue Hole in Sullivan County near Hymera. According to legend, the Blue Hole is a lake called "Water Lily".
Diseases; Springs; Water; Mineral waters; Minerals; Sanatoriums;
Mike McGill collected a legend from Jim Bailey pertaining to sanitariums using mineral water back in the day to cure diseases in Martinsville, Indiana.
This is Art Robertson's typewritten account of the legend of a blue hole near his hometown of Seymour in Jackson County, Indiana. This tale features two aspects of the blue hole legend, the first being a train that has fallen into the water, and a...
This is Kathy Matthews' typewritten account of a river in Orange County that has no streams or path, but flows all the same. According to legend, the river was the sight of an accident where a man and his wife were swept into the water without a...
Holes; Steam-engines; Water; Criminals; Automobiles; Wabash River (Ind.);
This is Gary Greiner's typewritten account of the story of the Vigo County, Indiana, Blue Hole located near the Wabash River on the outskirts of Terre Haute. He tells of how the water level of the hole rises and falls with the river; in the 1930s a...
This is Dale D. Bringham's typewritten account of a Blue Hole in Vigo County, Indiana, near Terre Haute. This legend involves some construction workers in the 1940s who left their ladder and tools in a well that they were digging. When they...