The Marsh in Southdale Plaza on 53rd Street in Anderson was opened in 1963 with a design typical of stores from that era. It closed in 2012. Today, the supermarket is home to a flea market.
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Abandoned Marsh: 82nd Street in Castleton
The Marsh Supermarket at the corner of East 82nd Street and Allisonville Road in Indianapolis was built in 1998 and closed in 2017 when the company declared bankruptcy. Today, the building is home to an ALDI grocery and Havertys Furniture.
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Abandoned Marsh: Indianapolis Road in Greencastle
The Marsh Supermarket in Greencastle, Indiana opened in 1986. It closed under Marsh’s discount banner, LoBill Foods, in 2006 shortly after Sun Capital Partners purchased the company.
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Albany’s last extant schoolhouse in Delaware County
In 1893, the Albany Land Company capitalized on the prosperity that the natural gas boom brought to the town in northeastern Delaware County and laid out an addition to the community. It sat east of Halfway Creek1. The following year, the Lake Erie & Western railroad moved the town’s depot to the site of East Albany, a change that infuriated many of the town’s established residents2.
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Another of Delaware Township’s Albany schoolhouses in Delaware County
Julia Allegre, George Current, and Rhoda Current deeded land to the Delaware School Township on July 15, 18761. Shortly after, the township constructed a two-story, three-bay brick building with a hipped roof and cupola to serve as a schoolhouse. Though originally the schoolhouse at Albany was designated as Delaware Township’s District 1, the town eventually operated its own, separate, school system.
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Abandoned Marsh: Fox Road in Indianapolis
“Abandoned Marsh” was my project to stylistically document the Marsh Supermarkets closed by Sun Capital Partners, an investment firm that owned the home-grown company for the final decade of its eighty-six year history. The last Marsh supermarket closed in 2017.
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Harrison Township’s Bethel schoolhouse in Delaware County
If I had to rank all of Delaware County’s one-room schoolhouses based on their architectural merits, I’d probably grant the top honors to the old Bethel schoolhouse that served Harrison Township’s District 6. The building predated the era of township-wide consolidated schools, but it was extraordinarily impressive in its day. It was so impressive, in fact, that it’s hard to believe that what’s left of the structure is even the same building.
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Bethel Pike: Eight miles of the old Hub Highway from Muncie to Bethel
Indiana’s early, rural roads were often little more than a pair of dirty tracks through the countryside that were unsuitable for all but the most basic forms of transportation. Around the 1860s, turnpikes sprung up to address the problem. Privately-owned toll roads that were maintained to higher standards, turnpikes got their name from a “pike,” a spiked barrier that was physically turned by the toll house operator to provide access to travelers. In the 1880s, eleven turnpikes radiated out of Muncie1, and Bethel Pike was one of them. Later, it became part of the early Hub Highway.
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An old path out of town: Albany’s interurban infrastructure
Two weeks shy of a year ago, I drove up to Albany, Indiana in northeastern Delaware County to take photos of a couple of old schoolhouses there. Heading southeast on Eaton-Albany Pike -the old road that connects those two communities- I came across something mysterious.
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Ted Shideler 