Terre Haute Postcards - Folders

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Terre Haute, Indiana
On the Banks of the Beautiful Wabash River

This unused postcard has the following printed text...

Copyright MCMXLI [1941] by Curt Teich & Co., Inc., Chicago, U.S.A.
D-6511
Wabash Valley News Agency Inc., Terre Haute Ind.
Genuine Curteich-Chicago "C.T. Art-Colortone" Post Card (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.)

I have another copy of this postcard folder date stamped on 29th September 1952 and have seen another copy stamped on 15th September 1948.

This card is a compendium of 20, including the covers, other Wabash Valley News Agency Terre Haute cards, these are...

Wabash River (front)	Greetings (back)	Paul Dresser's Birthplace	Izaak Walton Lake
Rose Polytechnic	Izaak Walton Rearing Ponds Deming Park	Women's Residence Hall Indiana State Teachers College	Sunken Gardens Fairbanks Park
Student Union Building Indiana State Teachers College	Deming Park	Memorial Stadium	Wabash Avenue
Grotto of Lourdes St. Mary of the Woods College	Court House & City Hall	Federal Penitentiary	Post Office & Court House
Le Fer Hall St. Mary of the Woods College	YMCA	Fine Arts and Commerce Building Indiana State Teachers College	Church of the Immaculate Conception St. Mary of the Woods College

The card has the following text about Terre Haute...

Terre Haute has been the home of Indians generations prior to the coming of the white man into this part of the country. Situated as it is, on the broad Fort Harrison Prairie, high above the flood waters of the Wabash, away from the malarial lowlands of the early days, the Indians found here a happy place to live. It was only natural that on this broad fertile plain, the white man should fix his habitation. Terre Haute was incorporated as a town in 1816, the same year Indiana was admitted to the Union.

Early trails centered in Terre Haute where Fort Harrison, one of the pioneer outposts in the Northwest Territory was located. Since those early days the history of Terre Haute has been the history of transportation.

These military trails formed the basis for the early stage roads into the Northwest Territory. The National government built the first Federal Highway into this Territory with its terminus on the Banks of the Wabash of Terre Haute. Later came the railroads, which were built from Terre Haute in all directions and today four trunk line systems leave Terre Haute in eleven directions.

With the motorization of transportation, the early pioneer trails were made into excellent U.S. Highways and county unit roads, which are paved from Terre Haute in a radiating network. U.S. 40 and U.S. 41 intersect at Terre Haute.

Paul Cox Field, Terre Haute's excellent Municipal Airport, is one of the outstanding fields in the central states.

Terre Haute dominates a territory in Eastern Illinois and Western Indiana known as the "Wabash Valley Empire." It is the metropolis of this fertile agricultural region with a population of over 250,000.

From an educational standpoint, Terre Haute is more favored than almost any city in the Central West, with three high ranking educational institutions of college standing. Indiana State Teachers' College has an unusual enrollment of over 3,500 students. Rose Polytechnic Institute, one of the outstanding engineering colleges of this country. St. Mary-of-the-Woods, a Roman Catholic Girl's College is located across the river from Terre Haute, on a tact of 1,200 acres. This is one of the most beautiful girl's colleges in this country, with an investment of $10,000,000 in its plant.

The public schools of Terre Haute are excellent. Three Senior High Schools, a Technical High School, four Junior High Schools and 18 Grammar Schools, there are also eight parochial schools including one High School.

Industrial plants in Terre Haute find that Terre Haute's exceptional educational opportunities are a material factor in stabilizing their labor market.

Out-of-door recreation is offered by the municipality in two public golf courses, one an 18-hole course with a $50,000 club house, the other a nine-hole course, with locker room facilities at the Memorial Stadium. This Stadium was built in memory of those who lost their lives in the World War, at a cost of $400,000 and seats 16,000 people. It is lighted for night games.

The City of Terre Haute has eighteen public parks and playgrounds, with an area of 685 acres.

Two municipal swimming pools of modern concrete construction provide relief during the warm weather. One pool located on the river bank in Fairbanks Park, accommodates over 2,000 swimmers.

POINTS OF INTEREST

1. Indiana State Teachers' College, established 1867, with its campus in the heart of downtown Terre Haute.

2. Rose Polytechnic Institute, established 1874, located on U.S. Highway 40 approximately four miles east of Terre Haute. It is the oldest engineering college west of the Alleghenys.

3. St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, established 1840, located four miles west of Terre Haute on U.S. Route 50, also, Mother House of the Sisters of Providence, famous Shell Chapel - Shrine of Perpetual Adoration.

4. Largest vegetable green houses in the world - 37 acres under glass devoted exclusively to the growing of cucumbers for the metropolitan market, located two and three-quarters miles from down town Terre Haute on U.S. Highway 41.

5. Deming Park on the bluffs at the eastern edge of Terre Haute and just off U.S. Highway 40, preserved in its native forest state, with picnic ovens stocked with cord wood for the use of tourists and citizens, famous Izaak Walton rearing ponds and wild fowl preserve.

6. Dresser power Plant of the Public Service Company of Indiana, located three miles south of West Terre Haute along the west bank of the Wabash River. This is a twenty-three million dollar plant which furnishes the entire Central portion of Indiana from state line to state line with electric power.

7. Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary built at a cost of three million dollars to house 2200 prisoners and 300 officers. This is located four miles south of Terre Haute on State Highway 63.

8. Dresser Drive along the Wabash River from U.S. Highway 40 south two miles past the birthplace of Paul Dresser, author of Indiana's famous song "On the banks of the Wabash."

9. Two historic shrines of Indiana's school children are located on the grounds of the Elk's Ft. Harrison Country Club, three miles north of down town Terre Haute on the Banks of the Wabash. The original Fort Harrison, built by General William Henry Harrison and Captain Zachary Taylor in 1811, and defended successfully in the battle of Fort Harrison on Sept. 3, 1812, is perpetuated by a D.A.R. marker. Vestiges of the East Wall of the original stockade are incorporated in the present club house. The historical Wabash-Erie Canal is seen along the Wabash River throughout the entire extent of the club grounds.

10. Turkey Run State Park lies 40 miles north of Terre Haute on U.S. Highway 41. This is Indiana's most famous scenic spot visited annually by hundreds of thousands of tourists.

11. Monster steam shovels on titanic strip mining projects 15 miles south and east of Terre Haute bring thousands of tourists annually to see these Indiana grand canyons.

Beautiful Terre Haute, Ind.

This used postcard folder, stamped on 29th September 1952, has the following printed text...

Pub. by Levin Brothers, Terre Haute, Ind.

This folder is a compendium of 20 postcards, including the covers, of other Levin Brothers Terre Haute cards, these are...

Court House (front)	Memorial Stadium (back)	Union Station	Zorah Shrine Temple
Indiana State Normal School Women's Hall	Steeg Park	Swimming Pool	Rea Park Club House
Ohio Boulevard	Deming Park "Wiener Roaster"	Wabash Avenue	Indiana State Normal School
Wabash River at Fort Harrison	St. Mary of the Woods Academy	Gymnasium and Wiley High School	Lovers Lane, Deming Park
St. Mary of the Woods Guerin Hall	St. Mary of the Woods Le Fer Hall	The Beeches Deming Park	Rose Polytechnic Institute

The card has the following text about Terre Haute...

Terre Haute, a French word meaning "high ground," was founded and developed by American settlers under the protection of the garrison at old Fort Harrison. Located on the banks of the Wabash river, in the beautiful Ohio valley, three miles miles north of the ferry where the old National road later crossed the river. Vigo County, of which Terre Haute is the seat, was permanently settled in 1811.

Terre Haute has much that it can boast of in the way of natural resources. It is in the center of the Indiana coal fields, with more than 400 square miles of coal lands in Vigo County. There is also an inexhaustible supply of shale and clay. Water is supplied in abundance from the Wabash river.

Terre Haute is one of the best located cities in Indiana, situated on a high bluff on the eat side of the Wabash river, 500 ft. above sea level. It is almost equally distance from Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Louisville, all within less than 200 miles. Within a radius of 30 miles, more than 350,000 people reside. The city is served by four trunk lines; the Pennsylvania, New York Central, Chicago and Eastern Illinois, and the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. Seventy passenger trains arrive and depart daily from the city. The annual outbound freight tonnage, exclusive of coal, is about 1,000,000 tons, with an equal amount of inbound tonnage.

Terre Haute is surely a manufacturing center, with its many industries of every variety. There are something like 200 manufacturing plants in Terre Haute, which represent an investment of more than $20,000,000, and an annual production valued at about $30,000,000.

Terre Haute is an educational center for Indiana. in addition to the 26 public schools and the three high schools, the Indiana State Normal, and the Rose Polytechnic Institute are located in Terre Haute, and within just a few miles of the city is St. Mary of the Woods, a well-known school for girls. There are 76 churches and religious organizations, which comprise all denominations, with a well organized Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. The public library was erected by one of the leading citizens in memory of his mother, and contains 72,000 volumes, 12 branches, and has a circulation of 500,000 yearly. There are nine banks and trust companies, and fifteen building and loan associations.

Terre Haute is a city of attractive homes and beautiful parks, with fifteen public parks, with a total area of 520 acres, which afford both rest and recreation. One of the most beautiful is Deming Park, area 155 acres, situated among the hills east of the city. It has been appreciated by many of the citizens as one of the most ideal picnic grounds in the neighborhood of the city. The business and social life of Terre Haute is well taken care of through its numerous clubs and fraternal orders, some of which are merely for business purposes, and others solely for social enlightenment. There is a municipal golf course and three country clubs with golf grounds.

There are many beautiful drives out of Terre Haute, some leading to famous resorts of the state, such as the "Shades" and "Turkey Run." "The Shades," a famous Wabash Valley beauty spot, five miles from Waveland, Indiana, located on Rock River, popularly known as Sugar Creek, was, in the early days, a favorite haunt of the Red Men. The uncertain trails of the Red Men have endowed these crags and hills with the never-dying romance of legendary history. The deep glens and ravines, the pools and falls, the great woodlands and dancing streams have a charm the equal of any national park in the country. In the same direction from Terre Haute is also located "Turkey Run," which a few years ago, was converted into a state park. "turkey Run," with its wonderful forests, is one of the beauty spots of Indiana. There are gigantic rock formations which have a tendency to inspire the most expectant visitor. "Turkey Run" is easily reached by motor from Terre Haute, over very good roads, and can be visited on the same trip as the "Shades." Each resort furnishes hotel accommodation or rental cottages, as preferred by the visitor.

6 Beautifully Colored Post Cards, Terre Haute, Ind.

This unused postcard folder has the following printed text...

Series A
Made expressly for S. H. Knox & Co.

This folder is a compendium of 6  postcards, these are...

Court House	Collett Park	Fairbanks Memorial Library
Wabash Avenue	State Normal School	Rose Polytechnic School

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