INDIANA

Indiana Division and Genealogy Division, Indiana State Library
140 N. Senate Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Education Division
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202

The Indiana Junior Historical Society is one of the country's oldest heritage organizations for young people.  They publish a newsletter and provide a variety of programs.

Indiana Junior Historical Society
140 North Senate Avenue
Indianapolis, IN  46204
317-232-2536


Indiana State Museum
650 West Washington Street
Indianapolis, IN 46204
317-232-1637
Fax: 317-232-7090

The Indiana Historical Bureau (IHB) provides information on a variety of resources in Indiana. Two quarterly publications, "Indiana Historian" and "Indiana History Bulletin" are sent to several public agencies in Indiana, including public schools; other publications are also available. Workshops are offered annually.

The
Delaware County Historical Alliance provides local heritage education materials to the Muncie community. Walking tours, traveling trunks, and other information on cemetery studies, historic architecture, national register properties, oral history, historic documents, historic farms, community history, genealogy, objects and artifacts, and historic sites are available.

Delaware County Historical Alliance
120 E. Washington Street
Muncie, IN  47305-1734
317-282-1550
FAX  317-282-1058
e-mail

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana sponsors the "Create A Landmark" Contest, now in its 11th year, in cooperation with the Indianapolis Children's Museum.  This program encourages students across the state to learn about a favorite landmark while constructing a model.  The "Stores Buildings Tell" is a traveling trunk that annually reaches over half of the state's 92 counties helping to teach historic preservation and architecture.  Publications by the Foundation include "On the Street Where You Live, a guide to architectural styles, the "Historic House Research Handbook," and "Be  a Building Watcher."  Building Blocks is published twice a year and reaches a circulation of over 900 people interested in promoting heritage education. 

Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana
340 West Michigan Street
Education and Information Coordinator
Indianapolis, IN  46202-3204
317-639-4534
FAX 317-639-6734

Southhold Preservation
provides booklets, teachers' guides, tours, and audio-visual programs relating to architecture and community history in South Bend. Their program has been developed for fourth grade, although it may be adapted.

Southhold Preservation, Inc.
P.O. Box 4241
South Bend, IN  46634
219-234-3441

Historic Southern Indiana(HSI) is a heritage-based regional outreach program of the University of Southern Indiana, serving the southern 26 counties of Indiana since 1986. Its goals are to identify, preserve, enhance, and promote the historical and natural resources of the region. HSI was one of the 16 pilot programs of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's heritage tourism initiative, 1990-1993.  Services and programs related to heritage education include annual workshops and symposia designed to enhance the quality of services at historic sites and museums and the linkages between the classroom and these sites and publications such as a biennial Guide to Historic Sites in Southern Indiana and Teachers' Resource Guide for Historic Sites. Copies of lesson and unit plans from previous workshops on 'nearby history" are available by mail. Working with Project Athena, HSI has developed three interactive classroom projects, with videos, based on three major historic communities/sites. Contact HSI for dditional information on programs and services and their availability.

Historic Southern Indiana
8600 University Blvd
Evansville, IN 47712
Telephone: 812 465-7014
Fax: 812 465-7061
Email:hsi@usi.edu