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100
This journalist was born in Dana, Indiana on August 3, 1900.
Who is Ernie Pyle?
100
This fountain in Clinton, Indiana features statues of 4 women.
What is the Four Seasons Fountain?
100
This festival started in 1966.
What is the Little Italy Festival?
100
Vermillion County has this many townships
What is 5?
Highland, Eugene, Helt, Clinton, and Vermillion
100
J. Dana Trent wrote this book about her experience growing up, including the time she grew up in Dana, Indiana.
What is Between Two Trailers: A memoir?
200
This serial killer is believed to have killed anywhere from 100 to 130 people but was only convicted of killing 6. This serial killer is an example of the "Angel of Death" type of serial killer.
Who is Orville Lynn Majors?
200
This house in Cayuga, Indiana is considered by some to be the most haunted house in America. It was featured on William Shatner's "The UnXplained" Season 1, Episode 1. The house was torn down by the current owner in 2024.
What is Willow's Weep?
200
The river bridge in Clinton, Indiana collapsed on this day.
What is October 4th, 1961?
200
Vermillion county has had this many courthouses.
What is 4?
Fun fact, 2 of our courthouses caught on fire: one in 1844 and another in 1923. A lightning strike caused the 1923 fire.
200
This is Vermillion County's native cryptid. It's been seen wandering Centenary.
What is the Goatman of Centenary?
300
Chad Johnston, pit crew chief for NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson, was born in this Vermillion County town.
What is Cayuga, Indiana?
300
A devastating fire burned down the Clinton Hotel on this date.
What is March 28th, 1956?
300
The first official Hill Climb in Newport was held in this year.
What is 1909?
300
This was the population in Vermillion County as of the 2020 census.
What is 15,439?
300
Clinton, Indiana has a bull head fountain at the Immigrant Square on 9th Street. The fountain is similar to bull head fountains in this Italian city.
What is Turin? They are known called "toret."
400
Frederik Ferdinand Vanzo, who played as a running back for both the Detroit Lions and Chicago Cardinals, is from this Vermillion County city.
What is Universal, Indiana?
400
This church in Vermillion county was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1979. It was built in 1878 to house Vermillion County's first Methodist congregation. It features a brick tower topped with a truncated roof and a bell tower.
What is the Salem Methodist Episcopal Church?
400
Vermillion County was formed by an act of the Indiana General Assembly in this year.
What is 1824?
400
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, this was the lowest recorded temperature in Vermillion County (Perrysville) in 1994.
What is -26°F?
400
Out of the 52 sheriffs Vermillion County has had, this many have been killed in the line of duty.
What is 1?
In 1916, Sheriff Martin C. Jones was attempting to make an arrest of a drunk person. He was shot in the heart and died instantly. He is buried in Newport Cemetery.
500
This person developed the equivalent circuit for transistors, worked on the development of the RCA color television, and invented the homopolar alternator, a device able to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy.
Who is Lawrence J. Giacoletto?
Yes, this is the same Giacoletto as the Giacoletto Foundation, which has provided several grants to the library and Vermillion County Schools.
500
This bridge in Universal, Indiana burned down on May 18th, 1967.
What is the Chunn Ford Covered Bridge?
500
This is the year the original wooden grandstand at the Vermillion County Fairgrounds were built. These grandstands burned down in 2017 and were replaced with what currently stands. At the time, the Vermillion County Grandstands were the oldest wooden grandstands in the state.
What is 1933?
500
According to the 2020 census. this many veterans live in Vermillion County.
What is 891?
500
This person was the first librarian at the Clinton Public Library.
Who is Miss Faye Tillotson?