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Indiana 
Famous for: Auto Racing-Indianapolis Speed Way (the Brick Yard), Hard Wood Forests, Maple surip, fire flys. or lighting bugs at night they are beautiful.
Indiana, has had many famous and colorful residents including, John Dillinger
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Bird, Cardinal} {State Flower, Peony}
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Economy:
manufacturing, steel, electrica, transportation equipment, machinery, chemicals,
corn,
sorghum, grains, soybeans, hogs, cattle, limestone, coal, petroleum.
why residents of the state are called " Hoosiers "; the most believable is that its use spread from the days of the Ohio Falls Canal construction in the 1820s, when a contractor, Samuel Hoosier, gave employment preference to those living on the Indiana side of the Ohio River.
Indiana is at its most appealing in the fall, is a welcome contrast to the central cornbelt, boasting several quaint towns such as Nashville, Vincennes, Madison and Corydon . Thriving Columbus exhibits a great array of contemporary architecture
Despite some beautiful dunes and beaches, the most lasting memories provided by Indiana's fifty-mile lakeshore (by far the shortest of the Great Lake states) are of the grimy steel mills and poverty-stricken neighborhoods of towns like Gary and East Chicago . In northern Indiana, the area in and around Elkhart and Goshen contains one of the nation's largest Amish settlements . The central plains are characterized by small market towns, except for the sprawling capital, Indianapolis , which has brightened up its downtown in recent years to the point that it's not a bad stopover. Hilly southern Indiana, at its most appealing in the fall, is a welcome contrast to the central cornbelt, boasting several quaint towns such as Nashville, Vincennes, Madison and Corydon . Thriving Columbus exhibits a great array of contemporary architecture for such a small city, and former resort town West Baden Springs is restoring the elegant hotel that made it famous.
Dozens of explanations have been offered as to why residents of the state are called " Hoosiers "; the most believable is that its use spread from the days of the Ohio Falls Canal construction in the 1820s, when a contractor, Samuel Hoosier, gave employment preference to those living on the Indiana side of the Ohio River.
INDIANAPOLIS began life in 1821, when a tract of barely inhabited marshes was designated the state capital. Its location in the middle of Indiana's rich farmland bore terrific commercial advantages, but the absence of a navigable river prohibited the transportation of bulky materials such as coal and iron to sustain heavy industry. Though home to more than sixty car manufacturers by 1910, the city never seriously threatened Detroit's supremacy. Nevertheless, it has become one of the biggest cities in the world not accessible by water, attracting food, paper and pharmaceutical industries, including the giant Eli Lilly Corporation.
Today
the city has shaken off such nicknames as Naptown, India-no-place and Brickhouse
in the Cornfield in favor of its chosen designation as the country's unofficial
amateur sports capital - "amateur" events like the Pan-American Games and
national Olympic trials being worth big money these days. (Major league
pro teams include the basketball Pacers and the football Colts.) In recent
years, it has constructed several world-class sports stadia (including
the retro-styled Conseco Fieldhouse downtown) along with new hotels, a
gaggle of top-class museums and a zoo - and its old downtown landmarks
have become cultural, shopping and dining complexes. No longer is it (quite)
true that nothing happens here except for the glamorous Indianapolis 500
car race each May - "the most televised annual event in the world".
