Winesburg, Indiana
Winesburg, Indiana | |
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City | |
City of Winesburg | |
Nicknames: The City of Ditches, The Cloud Sump City, The Necropolis City | |
Location of Winesburg in Whitley County. Coordinates: 41°15′37″N 85°35′30″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Indiana |
County | Whitley |
Township | Etna-Troy |
Elevation | 840 ft (256 m) |
Time Zone Summer (DST) |
UTC-5 (Eastern [EST]) UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP Code | 46000 |
Area code(s) | 260 |
Welcome, gentle reader, to the modest home of Winesburg, Indiana, on the World Wide Web.
History
The City of Winesburg, Indiana's Land Acknowledgement Statement
The City of Winesburg is located within the traditional homelands of the Myaamia and Shawnee people, who along with other indigenous groups ceded these lands to the United States in the first Treaty of Greenville in 1795. The Miami people were forcibly removed from these homelands in 1846. Winesburg, Indiana, recognizes The Miami Nation of Indians in Indiana and their Tribal Complex in downtown Peru, Indiana. We support the restoration of federal tribal recognition (illegally withdrawn in 1897) and encourage all to visit The Tribal Complex or its Facebook Page: facebook.com/cranesnestmni. Also see: The Shawnee Tribal page at shawnee-nsn.gov and the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma at miamination.com.
Geography
The West Fork of the Fork River brought early settlers to Winesburg, Indiana.
Demographics
Historical population | |||
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Census | Pop. | %± | |
1860 | 887 | — | |
1870 | 1,663 | 87.5% | |
1880 | 2,244 | 34.9% | |
1890 | 3,027 | 34.9% | |
1900 | 2,975 | −1.7% | |
1910 | 3,448 | 15.9% | |
1920 | 3,499 | 1.5% | |
1930 | 3,805 | 8.7% | |
1940 | 4,219 | 10.9% | |
1950 | 4,745 | 12.5% | |
1960 | 4,803 | 1.2% | |
1970 | 4,911 | 2.2% | |
1980 | 5,091 | 3.7% | |
1990 | 5,706 | 12.1% | |
2000 | 7,077 | 24.0% | |
2010 | 8,750 | 23.6% | |
2019 (est.) | 9,234 | 5.5% | |
U.S. Decennial Census |
Economy
Factories, businesses, employers of note
- Blister's Drug
- Broken Mirror Boutique
- The Cheese Plant
- The Creek Chub Bait Company
- The Huddle House
- Juanita's Quick Nails
- The Junior League Gift Wrapping Table
- The Pink Pearl eraser works
- The Floss Factory—closed
- John's Awful Awful restaurant
- The Winesburg Moist Towelette Company
- Rupp and Ottings Market
- JG Butler House m o v i n g
- The State of Indiana Hair Dump
- Winesburg Memory Care
Cultural institutions and points of interest
- CThe Annual Metal Detector Migration
- The Ingmar Bergman Drive-In Theatre
- The Cloud Sump and Contrail Viewing Station
- Damm Theatre—closed
- The Doppler Effect Research Station
- The Historically Preserved Telephone Booth
- Jersey Berm Self-Storage
- Jonesing Funereal Funerals
- The Lions Club
- The Mint Fields
- The Winesburg Motor Speedway—closed
- The Winesburg Public Library—including the Little Turtle Branch
- The Winesburg YMCA
- The Quonset Hut Museum
- The Zen Garden (formerly, Glenglen Mall's parking lot)
- Stu Madden's Gazing Ball Barn
- The Movable Museum of Michael Wilkerson's Gremlin
- The Whinesburg Winery
- The Canola Fields
Sports
Parks and recreation
The Winesburg Park Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of all parks within the city limits.
- Acquired in 1955, Throw Park (named after the American Writer and Naturalist, Henry David Thoreau, who said "The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.")[1] is 246.8 acres in the NW quadrant of the city. The mostly wooded and undeveloped park does feature the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball courts; two box hockey boxes; a corn hole pitch; a lighted lacrosse, flag football, soccer field; a dozen tether ball poles under repair; a competitive clothesline court; and a field for flying radio controlled scale model aircraft and Asian fighting kites. Amenities include a restroom contained in the replica of Thoreau's Walden Cabin and a drinking fountain. There is also the Cloud Sump Platform for viewing clouds adjacent to the Winesburg & Winesburg RR right-of-way and the popular Swan Boats on the West Fork of the Fork River.
- The Attractive Nuisance Park has been closed since 1996. Court case is still pending.
- FDR National Shelter Belt: Winesburg Segment: Weeping Willow Windbreak
- Someone has been painting the trunks of Elm Trees white.
Government
Education
- Abraham Lincoln School (the Flat-Headed Cats; founded 1866)
- James A. Garfield School (the Civets; founded 1882)
- William McKinley School (the Dwarf Coatis; founded 1902
- John F. Kennedy School (the Shrew Tenrecs; founded 1963)
- David Émile Durkheim High School (the Bandicoots; founded 1918)
- The Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic (the Fightin' Ocelots; founded 1906)--domino champions (1907) in the I-AAA league.
- The Winesburg School of Chiropractic
Media
Infrastructure
- The Winesburg and Winesburg Railroad (W&W)
- The Winesburg Cancer Center
- The Winesburg Necropoli
- The Winesburg Park Board
- The Winesburg Post Office
- The Winesburg Public Works
- Tab Gallenbeck, shoveler of road salt
- The Winesburg Waterworks
- Electric Power Grid Transformer Fires
Notable citizens
Please see the main list of notable citizens over here.
Sister city
In popular culture
Winesburg, Indiana, was not the inspiration for Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life (1919). No, absolutely not.
References
Bibliography
- Michael Martone, The Blue Guide to Indiana (Tuscaloosa, AL: Fiction Collective 2 [University of Alabama Press], 2001), ISBN 1-57366-095-7, OCLC 46401580.
External links
Sponsors
The enormous expense of the Winesburg, Indiana, Wiki could not be borne by the city's budget alone. According to the City Manager, JerCom Industries charges exactly €41,365 per annum to host the Wiki. To defray costs, W.INwikiAdmin begrudgingly added salesman to his multitudinous online responsibilities. The full list of sponsors is legally required to be a matter of public record and may be found here. Fortunately, Sunheart Metalworks stepped up and covered all but €4 of the annual cost.
Sunheart Metalworks
- Horses shod
- Plow points sharpened
- Farm implements built and repaired
- Accepting applications for apprentice smiths, with potential placement at the Sunheart Vocational School and Center for Transcendental Meditation
Serving the blacksmithing needs of the Winesburg vicinity since 1867.
General Smithing, Proprietor
House of Davis, Indiana