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18,918
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$49,586
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America/Indiana/Indianapolis
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Shelbyville, IN - History
We would like to provide the residents of Shelbyville a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Shelbyville Home page. The Shelbyville Home page provides as much information as possible on Shelbyville. Knowing Shelbyville’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Shelbyville’s Home page, you will also find Shelbyville’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Shelbyville has a population of 18918. 47.8% of Shelbyville’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.2 are female. 46.1% of Shelbyville is married and 58% own their own home. The Average Home price is $103,349, and the average rent is $795. Household median income in Shelbyville is $49,586, and the individual median income is $30,173. Shelbyville’s Ethnic is the following: White(90.4%), Hispanic(9.2%), Other(4.8%), Black(2%), Multiple(1.4%), Asian(1.2%), Native(0.1%).
In 1818, the land that would become Shelbyville was ceded to the United States by the Miami tribe in the Treaty of St. Mary's. Also in 1818, the backwoodsman Jacob Whetzel and a party cut a trail through this "New Purchase" from the Whitewater River at Laurel due west to the White River at Waverly. This trail became known as Whetzel's Trace and was the first east–west road into the New Purchase of central Indiana.
Whetzel's Trace was cut just 4 miles north of site of Shelbyville and proved important in the settlement of Shelby County.Shelbyville was platted in 1822. Shelbyville was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.
The town incorporated January 21, 1850.The Shelbyville post office has been in operation since 1823.The city charter received at that time was destroyed in the City Hall fire on January 1, 1928. A railroad was built connecting Shelbyville to Indianapolis in the late 1830s, the first railroad in the state, that later expanded to connect to Madison and Jeffersonville. Allegheny Airlines Flight 853 crashed on September 9, 1969 near Fairland.
Nearly thirty of the 83 people killed were never identified and were buried in a mass grave in Shelbyville.John Hamilton House, Lora B. Pearson School, Porter Pool Bathhouse, Shelbyville Commercial Historic District, Shelby County Courthouse, Shelbyville High School, and West Side Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Grover Museum features a "Streets of Old Shelby" exhibit. Horseshoe Indianapolis (owned by Caesars Entertainment) opened in 2009.
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