In September 1889 The Indianapolis News provided a laudatory albeit graphic description of the Indianapolis Abattoir’s slaughterhouse operations in West Indianapolis. Incorporated in September 1882, the Morris Street plant focused purely on slaughtering animals for processing by wholesale butchers, and in 1889 they expanded their factory to meat packing as well in their location “on … Continue reading “Not an agreeable neighbor”: Industry and Development in West Indianapolis| Invisible Indianapolis
This post was co-authored with Jonathan Howe, West Indianapolis Neighborhood Congress and owner CityDump Records In December 1902 The Indianapolis Recorder hailed the arrival in the Circle City of African-American poet Aaron Belford Thompson, noting that “Although Mr. Thompson is a young man still in his twenties, he is the author of two books of … Continue reading Poetry and African-American Life in West Indianapolis| Invisible Indianapolis