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2 Responses for "Fiery Crash Closes I-465 Today"

1. M. Anderson

   July 15th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

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   If you went east on US 36, Rockville Rd. and went as far as Holt Rd. or Washington St.,you were in Garden City which is a place dating to early days of the new capital city which raised table produce from the many ‘truck’ gardens and orchards in the area run by family farmers such as the Ristows, Hunts, Dodds, Stelzners and many others. This produce was ‘trucked’ (originally by horse-drawn wagons) to the new centrally located City Market. We fed the city.
   Other areas nearby include other “gardens” such as Biltmore, Drexel, Fleming, Mickleyville, Indiana Park, Maple Heights, Wayne Park, Lynhurst and others lost to memory.
   Garden City remains because of the Wayne township elementary school (the last of those once located in the aforementioned Drexel, Fleming, Mickleyville, Biltmore, etc. and because two of the historic farming operations still remaining: Stelzner’s on Vermont St. and Ristow’s Rockville Rd. site (now the 3rd Dammann’s) as opposed to the Ristow cousin’s Roena (now Gasoline Alley) location. Each dates to at least the late 1800s as family farms still in production. Dammann’s/Ristow’s is now a nursery supplying it’s other sites in year round operation with original and newly added greenhouses.
   Come visit us sometime.
   http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/indy/gcca

2. Jason Bean

   July 24th, 2008 at 10:03 am

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   That’s really cool information and history that you’ve shared. I’ll have to be sure and check out your site later today.