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National Geographic : 1936 Sep
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INDIANA JOURNEY Photograph from Pictures, Inc. A MEMORIAL TO GEORGE ROGERS CLARK NOW RISES WHERE FORT SACKVILLE STOOD WHEN BRITAIN RULED ALONG THE WABASH The white circular monument, with columns, honors the American soldier who was sent by Governor Patrick Henry of Virginia, during the Revolution, to make war in this wilderness. His capture of Kaskaskia, his march through Indians, mud, and flood to victory at Fort Sack ville-as Vincennes was then called-form a classic in the annals of military exploits (Plate II). This air view was made on June 14, 1936, when the President delivered an address. Because Lincoln's family, migrating to Illinois, crossed the river here, the bridge is named for him. the teams while men and boys herded other animals after the wagons. Today Indianapolis stands, a typical, well-balanced Midwestern city, intersected by four national highways used by three fourths of all transcontinental motorists (Color Plates III-V and pages 294, 296). High above the city rises America's largest neon aviation beacon, usually vis ible from 75 miles away. About the city runs the first belt-line railway built in America, and the seven acre Union Station with elevated tracks accommodates 40 trains at once. Every 24 hours, 82 mails-by air, rail, and truck reach the city; and it averages a convention a day-five days out of every week the year round. One auditorium seats 10,000. What a change since Henry Ward Beecher preached here in his small church, and edited his farm paper! Get up early, any morning, and you see some 500 trucks coming into town from all directions, hauling hogs, cattle, calves, and sheep to the largest stockyards east of Chi cago. Among world grain markets the one here ranks sixth, and as a cash mart it leads in the United States. Some 840 factories make many things, from insulin and inner tubes, automobiles and canned food, to birdcages and popcorn machines. One shop can make 5,500 bi cycle tires every day. Another makes chains-chains that went with Admiral 279
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