. Indianapolis : a historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . he project failed. In 1857 it was ordered to be sold at auction, and in Aprilit was sold and torn down, the material going to build the Macy House. The Marion Fire Engine House also stood on the Circle, on the north side—ifthere is a side to a Circle—and was for many years a spot of no liitle interest to theemulous and devoted young gentlemen who ran wid der machine. The oldhouse was frequently broken into and occ
. Indianapolis : a historical and statistical sketch of the railroad city, a chronicle of its social, municipal, commercial and manufacturing progress, with full statistical tables . he project failed. In 1857 it was ordered to be sold at auction, and in Aprilit was sold and torn down, the material going to build the Macy House. The Marion Fire Engine House also stood on the Circle, on the north side—ifthere is a side to a Circle—and was for many years a spot of no liitle interest to theemulous and devoted young gentlemen who ran wid der machine. The oldhouse was frequently broken into and occupied by prostitutes, and it was once ortwice set on fire, and was finally destroyed in 1851. The Circle was made a park by the city, but misused for a cow pasture and aplay ground till its trees and grass were ruined, and then (1867), it was closely andelegantly fenced and shut out from the public entirely. Now it is a beautiful spot,and annually becoming more beautiful. It will soon be as pretty a little park ascan be found anywhere. Handsome residences and imposing business houses arerising round it, and making it the center of the most impressive portion of th« VNIVEESTTT SQUARE AND COUNTY SEMINARY. gg Another appropriation of lots to public uses was made on the 26th day ofJanuary by the Legislature, that of square 25 for a State University, and square22 for a State Hospital, This was done in connection with an order for the sale offorfeited and reserved lots and the vacation of certain alleys and squares. The his-tory of one of these appropriated blocks, that now called University Square, hasbeen even more eventful than that of the Circle. Tn the first place its dedicationto a State University, has enabled the State University at Bloomington to makea color of claim to it, and out of that claim has grown a succession of controversiesthat have ended in nothing but a determination on the part of the city that theBloomington institution shall not have it, and this
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