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What do you consider the key accomplishment(s) of your county's Bicentennial celebration?
What Legacy Project do you most like to tell people about, and why?
Describe a highlight or most memorable moment related to your county's Bicentennial celebration?
How/where are you preserving information and artifacts related to your county's celebration?
Total number of volunteers who participated.
Estimated total attendance.
2,500
Madison County was named for James Madison, co-author of the Federalist Papers, and fourth President of the United States, from 1809 to 1817.
About the courthouse: Johnson and Richhart were the architects and the building was completed in 1973.
Pendleton, Indiana, Madison County, was the site of the “Fall Creek Massacre.” A museum housing 3500 artifacts of pioneer heritage now exists on that site.
Ten unique earthworks built by prehistoric Indians known as the Adena-Hopewell people can be found at Mounds State Park, located off I-69 east of Anderson.
The largest earthwork, the Great Mound, is believed to have been constructed around 160 B.C. Archaeological surveys indicate the mounds were used as gathering places for religious ceremonies, from where astronomical alignments could be viewed.
County Seat: Anderson
Year Organized: 1823
Square Miles: 451.92