Winesburg, Indiana

Winesburg, Indiana
City
City of Winesburg
Nicknames: The City of Ditches, The Cloud Sump City, The Necropolis City
Location in Montgomery County. 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 We support the restoration of federal tribal recognition (illegally withdrawn in 1897) and encourage all to visit The Tribal Complex or its Facebook Page: facebook.com/cranesnestmni.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 in Winesburg, Indiana.

At one point, the West Fork of the Fork River disappears underground only to emerge north of the city of Winesburg.

The West Fork of the Fork River brought early settlers to Winesburg, Indiana.

Demographics

Historical population
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

A view of The State of Indiana Hair Dump located in an exhausted limestone quarry on the outskirts of Winesburg, Indiana. Most cut hair and beard trimmings of the state are transshipped to the Hair Dump for disposal, a consequence of the complicated hygienic statues of Indiana. A cottage industry manufacturing lockets with the discarded locks still thrives on the lips of the old quarry's rim.

• 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

The Cloud Sump and Contrail Viewing Station: It is perhaps a quirk of topography, atmospheric conditions, proximity to the Great Lakes, glide paths of of near-by municipal airfields, or residue from the pharmaceutical crop dusting aeroplanes that has generated these amazing displays of congested clouds aloft of the the town of Winesburg, Indiana.

• 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

  

  The Tetherball Memorial in Throw Park.

Parks and recreation

The Winesburg Park Board is responsible for the development and maintenance of all parks within the city limits.

Descendants of Jeremy Butler serve up a pickle ball on the Jeremy Butler Memorial Professional Pickle Ball Courts, Throw Park.

Swan Boats Parked on the West Fork of the Fork River.

• 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.") 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.

Punting on the underground West Fork of the Fork River.

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

• WEEP-TV
• WOWO radio

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

Sister city

• Clyde, Ohio.

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.

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.

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