How Flora's Community be part of the Indiana's Bicentennial Celebration in 2016

1. How Can Flora Be Part of the Celebration?
The Indiana Bicentennial 2016

2. Becky Skillman, Co-chair, President/CEO, Radius Indiana
Lee Hamilton, Co-chair, Director, Center on Congress - Indiana University
First Lady Karen Pence, Bicentennial Ambassador
Judge Sarah Evans Barker, U.S. District Court - Southern District of Indiana
Charlie Brown, State Representative, Indiana State House District 3
Howard Cohen, Chancellor Emeritus, Purdue University, Calumet
Steve Ferguson, Chairman, Cook Group
Tony George, Owner, Vision Investments, LLC
P.E. MacAllister, Chairman, MacAllister Machinery Company
James Madison, Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
Mickey Maurer, Chairman, National Bank of Indianapolis
Mary McConnell, Indiana State Director, The Nature Conservancy
Jim McCormick, Owner, Bestway Express Inc.
Senator Jim Merritt, Indiana Senate
Ellen Rosenthal, President/CEO, Conner Prairie Interactive History Park
Chief Justice Randall Shepard, Indiana Supreme Court
Indiana Bicentennial
Commission Members

3. INDIANA BICENTENNIAL THEMES
Celebrate history…Ignite the future
NATURE
CONSERVATION
YOUTH AND
EDUCATION
COMMUNITY
INVOLVEMENT
HISTORICAL
CELEBRATION
• Historical Celebration
• Youth and Education
• Community Involvement
• Nature Conservation

4. Indiana
1816

5. Carroll County Formation
• 1828 – Carroll County and Delphi founded
• 1828 – Deer Creek, Rock Creek, & Tippecanoe Twps.
• 1830 – Jackson Township
• 1831 – Adams & Clay Townships
• 1832 – Burlington Township and town; Camden
• 1835 – Carrollton, Democrat, Washington Townships
• 1836 – Jefferson Township
• 1837 – Madison Township
• 1840 – Monroe Township
• 1872 – Flora platted
• 1937 – Liberty Township

6. Past Carroll County Celebrations
• 1916 – State Centennial
• 1924 – Centennial of first county settlement
• 1928 – Centennials of Delphi and Carroll County
• 1932 – Camden Centennial
• 1955 – Carroll County Old Settlers Centennial
• 1966 – Indiana Sesquicentennial
• 1972 – Flora Centennial
• 1976 – U.S. Bicentennial
• 1978 – Burlington Sesquicentennial
• 1982 – Camden Sesquicentennial
• 2005 – Carroll Co. Old Settlers Sesquicentennial

7. Indiana Centennial & Sesquicentennial
• Celebration of Indiana becoming the 19th
state on December 11, 1816
• Centennial celebrated 1916 with first state
parks, many pageants, parades, festivities,
publications—local and state
• 1916 Carroll County celebration led by Mrs.
Charles (Jennie McCain) Buckley
• 1966 Sesquicentennial - Leo Craig (state) and
John Peterson (local)

8. Bicentennial Legacy Projects
• Benefits of Endorsement
– Listing on the 2016 Indiana Bicentennial website,
www.indiana2016.org
– Permission to use the official 2016 Indiana Bicentennial
logo, in accordance with the established logo guidelines,
on Indiana Bicentennial related promotional materials
– Letter of endorsement from the 2016 Indiana
Bicentennial Commission
• Download the Application www.indiana2016.org

9. Carroll County Legacy Projects
Already Approved:
• Carroll County Digital Newspaper Archive
• Flora History is Indiana History – Pop-Up Galleries
• Wabash & Erie Canal Interpretive Center Displays Update
Prospective:
• High School Basketball Histories & Historical Markers
• Bicentennial Park and Bicentennial Monument
• Baum’s Landing Archaeological Exploration
• One Room School Project
• Murals
• … and many more

10. Bicentennial
Park –
Monon High
Bridge and Trail,
Bicentennial
Monument –
East Delphi

11. County Project Examples
• Repaint and rehabilitate historical markers
• Celebrate construction of the courthouse
begun 1916 (cornerstone laid)
• Opera House programs
• Salute to local artists of the past and present
• Digital libraries of newspapers and books
• Write and/or preserve church, club, town,
township, business, site, building histories
• “Brand” annual festival/event: Bicentennial
Bacon Bowl, Bicentennial Hog Jog, etc.

12. Potential Local Projects…..
• Special recognition of the Bicentennial at the
2016 4-H Fair
• Flora Depot restoration project
• Facebook “Flora Memories” page
• Special Bicentennial branding of the Hog Jog,
Car Show, Adams Mill Bridge Run, Midnight
Madness, Farmers Market, etc.
• Historic costumed baseball/horseshoes/
croquet tournaments

13. Legacy Projects Elsewhere
• North Manchester– Bison-tennial project with local K-12
schools, MU, Chamber of Commerce and Civic Groups
• Montgomery County – Restoration of Courthouse Clock
Tower
• Boone County – Senior Biography Project – interviews
with centenarians – booklet of memories and stories
• Tippecanoe County – Greenbush Cemetery Restoration
• LaPorte County – Prominent People - museum exhibit
highlighting local citizens with broad impact.

14. Barns, Farms, Agriculture
Statewide:
• Bicentennial Barns Project
• Heritage Barns of Indiana – Painting project
Local:
• Assist Centennial Farm applicants with research?
• Antique Tractor Club & Adams Mill collaboration?
• 4-H, FFA activities of some sort?
• Barn quilts

15. – Implemented in 2012 with $30M-State & Eli Lilly
– Progress to date: 119 Projects Approved
• Up to $300K/grant, local match required
• 54 different counties
• To date $22.4M BNT funds, $29.7M match
• 58 closed projects, 5,970 acres
• Goal to have at least one project in each
county

16. Legacy Projects
BNT Projects
Both
329 Total Projects
77 of 92 Counties
34 With Both
• IBC Legacy and
• BNT Projects

17. Torch Relay
92 counties; 2300
miles; 5 weeks.
Carroll County
October 6, 2016;
20 torchbearers