Weir Cook Community Park, which has received new landscaping and flagpoles since this photo appeared in the Daily Reporter in 2014, is a landmark in Wilkinson. The town was first surveyed in 1883 by Elnathan and Thomas B. Wilkinson.
Tom Russo | Daily Reporter
Jan. 11
In 1957, Congressman Ralph Harvey confirmed that New Palestine would have a new post office, to be built on Bittner Road. Years later, that building was vacated and the post office moved to its current location on Westside Drive.
Jan. 12
In 1965, the Daily Reporter noted that the Federal Communications Commission had approved the sale of Greenfield radio station WSMJ to WPBF Inc. of Middletown, Ohio, for $42,500.
Jan. 13
In 1937, heavy rains washed out a bridge over Nameless Creek, a mile south of the Westland School. The Greenfield fire pumper pumped water out of the basement of the Columbia hotel.
Jan. 14
In 1987, a Indiana Department of Transportation representative said work was under way to add traffic signals at U.S. 40’s intersections with county roads 500W and 700W, replacing the warning flashers previously there.
Jan. 15
In 1947, a fundraising drive began in Greenfield to raise money to combat polio.
Jan. 16
In 1883, Elnathan and Thomas B. Wilkinson surveyed the original plat of what became the town of Wilkinson.
In 1889, the name of the Sugar Creek post office was changed to New Palestine.
In 1896, a fire in Fortville took out the whole northeast block of Main Street businesses.
Jan. 17
In 1957, the Citizens Advisory Council on Education began mapping plans for a new Greenfield junior high school. The council also discussed the need for a school cafeteria in the district; school board member Martin Hayes said it was a “must” and “we are 10 years behind now.”
