So long to Chesterfield’s great Graham Furniture sign

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Serendipitous photos have often been helpful to my research, like when I came across an image of someone’s old V-Twin motorcycle taken around 1915 that happened to feature Salem Township’s long-demolished Davis schoolhouse in the background. Today, the tables have turned: last November, I took an iPhone photo of the Graham Furniture building in Chesterfield that incidentally showed its old sign. Yesterday, I noticed it was gone! Maybe my image will be of use to someone in the far-flung future.

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INDOT right-of-way markers are here, there, and everywhere

Read time: 9 min.

Looking for a fun game to play next time you’re bored in the car? I sure was when I headed to South Carolina a couple months ago before I knew how common state right-of-way markers are. In Indiana, the monuments normally demarcate the boundaries of roads owned and operated by the department of transportation, and they’re everywhere. Sometimes, they pop up in unexpected places.

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