INDIANA
- Origin of name: Land of Indians
- Capital: Indianapolis
- Largest city: Indianapolis
- Population: 6,570,902 (2013 est) Ranked 16th in the US.
- Nicknames: The Hoosier state
- Highest point: Hoosier hill 1,257 ft
- Admission to union: December 11th, 1816 (19th)
- State motto: The Crossroads of America
- State song: On the banks of the Wabash
- State tree: Tulip tree
- State flower: Peony
- State bird: Cardinal
- Area: 36,418 sq mi. Ranked 38th in the US.
Did you know……...
1) Santa Claus, Indiana receives over one half million letters and requests at Christmas time.
2) Historic Parke County has 32 covered bridges and is the Covered Bridge Capital of the world.
3) Deep below the earth in Southern Indiana is a sea of limestone that is one of the richest deposits of top-quality limestone found anywhere on earth. New York City's Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center as well as the Pentagon, the U.S. Treasury, a dozen other government buildings in Washington D.C. as well as 14 state capitols around the nation are built from this sturdy, beautiful Indiana limestone.
4) The first long-distance auto race in the U. S. was held May 30, 1911, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The winner averaged 75 miles an hour and won a 1st place prize of $14,000. Today the average speed is over 167 miles an hour and the prize is more than $1.2 million. Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the site of the greatest spectacle in sports, the Indianapolis 500. The Indianapolis 500 is held every Memorial Day weekend in the Hoosier capital city. The race is 200 laps or 500 miles long.
5) Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war.
The Little Bridges series was started by Stanthews in 2009 to highlight small footbridges in remote parts of Wiltshire. Since then the series has been expanded by others all over the country and starting to spread fast, Damian from Winter Foxes has created and updates a list of cachers who has found 10 or more little bridges and can be found here, if you would like to add to the series, please contact Stan here and he will give you a number for your bridge, to qualify, the bridge must be a foot bridge too small for vehicles, please make sure your title exactly matches “Little Bridges # xx then name” including spaces so it will get picked up and added to Damian’s list.