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Madison County, IN Housing Statistics

Madison county indiana dp 4 profile of selected housing characteristics SubjectNumberPercent Total housing units56,939100.0UNITS IN STRUCTURE1-unit, detached44,16677.61-unit,…

Fort Stanwix

(Encyclopedia) Fort Stanwix, colonial outpost on the site of Rome, N.Y., controlling a principal route from the Hudson River to Lake Ontario. Originally a French trading center, it was rebuilt by the…

Monroe, Paul

(Encyclopedia) Monroe, Paul, 1869–1947, American educator, b. North Madison, Ind., grad. Franklin College, 1890, Ph.D. Univ. of Chicago, 1897. At Teachers College, Columbia, he was professor of…

Presidential Range

(Encyclopedia) Presidential Range, group of the White Mts., N N.H., so called from the names of its peaks. Mt. Washington (6,288 ft/1,917 m) is the highest peak in New Hampshire; a meteorological…

Fort Bridger State Park

(Encyclopedia) Fort Bridger State Park, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, SW Wyo. The supply post, founded by U.S. fur trader James Bridger in 1843, was an important station on the Oregon Trail. The…

Moose Factory

(Encyclopedia) Moose Factory, trading post, NE Ont., Canada, near the mouth of the Moose River on James Bay. A fort was built there by Charles Bayly, governor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the…

Hall, Fort

(Encyclopedia) Hall, Fort: see Fort Hall.

Mims, Fort

(Encyclopedia) Mims, Fort: see Fort Mims.