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Indiana's Pioneer Heritage and the End of the Twentieth Century
James H. Madison

Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington

Indianapolis pageant, October 1916, for the centennial of statehood, December 11, 1916.
Indiana Division, Indiana State Library.

Every December 11 Hoosiers celebrate their state's birthday. As with all birthdays and
anniversaries we reminisce and honor and glorify, as we look backward in hopes of seeing
where we have been and where we are going.

Indiana Counties at Statehood
December 11, 1816