Winesburg, Indiana
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| Winesburg, Indiana | |
|---|---|
| City | |
| City of Winesburg | |
| Nicknames: The City of Ditches, The Cloud Sump City, The Necropolis City | |
 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 | 46725 |
| Area code(s) | 260 |
Welcome, gentle reader, to the modest home of Winesburg, Indiana, on the World Wide Web.
History
Geography
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
Cultural institutions and points of interest
- The Ingmar Bergman Drive-In Theatre
- Blister's Drug
- The cheese plant
- Damm Theatre—closed
- The eraser works
- The Floss Factory--closed
- Jersey Berm Self-Storage
- Jonesing Funereal Funerals
- John's Awful Awful restaurant
- The Lions Club
- The Winesburg Moist Towelette Company
- The Winesburg Motor Speedway—closed
- The Winesburg Public Library—including the Little Turtle Branch
- The Winesburg YMCA
- The Quonset Hut Museum
- Rupp and Ottings Market
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.
Government
Education
- Abraham Lincoln Middle School (the Flat-Headed Cats; founded 1866)
- James A. Garfield Middle School (the Civets; founded 1882)
- William McKinley Middle School (the Dwarf Coatis; founded 1902
- John F. Kennedy Middle School (the Shrew Tenrecs; founded 1963)
- David Émile Durkheim High School (the Bandicoots; founded 1918)
- Winesburg Normal School and Polytechnic (the Fightin' Ocelots; founded 1906)--domino champions (1907) in the I-AAA league.
Media
Infrastructure
- 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
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.
