The 48 mile Knobstone Trail is Indiana’s longest natural surface foot path.  It’s a very popular backcountry trail that runs along high ridges of southern Indiana’s Clark and Jackson State Forests, offering great views of the wooded foothills of southern Indiana with various glimpses, from time to time, of the Ohio River and even Louisville…

From an article by Dr. Carl Bogardus, Sr. printed in the Scott County Journal and Chronicle, July 23, 1970. On December 31, 1821, the Bethlehem-Rockford State Road was established.  It was surveyed and built in 1822.  This was the road which was in 1825 declared a Post Road by the Government, and in 1836 this…

From an article by Dr. Carl Bogardus, Sr. printed in the Scott County Journal and Chronicle, July 23, 1970. The very first thoroughfares of Indiana, while somewhat remote from interstates of the present day, have yet some relation to the later history of the state, as well as possessing a certain historic value of their…

(Part Two of Two in this Story) In 1912 the Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Company went into receivership and was reorganized as the Indianapolis and Louisville Traction Railway Company with it’s general offices in Scottsburg.  Six Dixie Flyers traveled south to Louisville and six Hoosier Flyers made the trip to Indianapolis daily, each 117-mile trip…

(Part One of Two in this Story) The first significant rival of the steam railroad in Indian was the electric railway.  The use of electric power for transportation began with the street railway, one of the earliest recorded attempts at electrification was made in South Bend Indiana in 1882.  The work of Frank Sprague in…