“When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.” - Unknown

“You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles you carry within you the power to make the world better.” - Unknown

“Lessons from a waterfall – Keep moving, and you will eventually get over it.” - Unknown

The Ultimate Indiana Waterfalls Road Trip (Part 1: Northern Indiana)

• N01 - Thistlethwaite Falls 60 Waterfall Rd, Richmond, IN 47374

• N02 - Salamonie River State Forest 5124 County Rd 100 S, Lagro, IN 46941

• N03 - Kokiwanee Nature Preserve 5821 E 50 S, Lagro, IN 46941

• N04 - Hathaway Preserve 1866 E Baumbauer Rd, Wabash, IN 46992

• N05 - France Park Falls 4505 US-24, Logansport, IN 46947

• N06 - Williamsport Falls 25 N Monroe St, Williamsport, IN 47993

The Ultimate Indiana Waterfalls Road Trip (Part 2: Southern Indiana)

• SO1 - Cataract Falls 1317 W Lieber Rd, Cloverdale, IN 46120

• SO2 - McCormick's Creek Falls 250 McCormick Creek Park Rd, Spencer, IN 47460

• SO3 - Spring Mills State Park 3333 State Road 60 E. Mitchell, IN 47446

• SO4 - Hemlock Cliffs Hemlock Cliffs, Union Township, IN 47118

• SO5 - Clifty Falls State Park 1501 Green Rd, Madison, IN 47250

• SO6 - Muscatatuck Park 325 IN-3, North Vernon, IN 47265

• SO7 - Anderson Falls 3699 N 1140 County Rd E, Hartsville, IN 47244

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Albion Fellows Bacon, housing crusader

Had two of Albion Fellows Bacon's children not developed scarlet fever, she might never have become a crusader for better housing. But after her children fell ill, the Evansville mother of four went first to their schools and then the city's riverfront slums, looking for the source of their infection.

Her tour of the tenements opened her eyes to the horrific living conditions of her city's poor. In 1909, Bacon drafted the first of many bills to regulate such housing. By 1913, the Indiana legislature had passed a statewide bill limited to Indianapolis and Evansville. Four years later, Bacon was once again instrumental in the passage of a law allowing for the condemnation of unsafe buildings statewide. Born in 1865, Bacon extended her efforts to juvenile justice, child welfare and city planning.

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Kathleen Flossie Bailey, civil rights activist

Kathleen "Flossie" Bailey, born in 1895, was known in Marion as a voice for racial justice. In the 1920s, Bailey, the wife of a doctor, helped organize the local and state offices of the NAACP. In 1930, she headed up the local chapter, which had almost 100 members, including the white mayor of the town.

So when she started to hear talk that three jailed teenagers were going to be lynched, she lept into action. She tried to get the teens, who were suspected of murdering a white man and raping a white woman, moved for their protection. Her efforts were to no avail, and two of the teens were killed.

After the lynching, Bailey wanted to see the lynchers brought to justice. She lobbied national NAACP leaders to take up the cause and eventually two men were brought to trial, though the all-white, all-male jury acquitted them.

Although Bailey's family was harassed, she organized a successful effort to pass a state law the next year that said any sheriff who allowed one of his prisoners to be lynched would lose his job.

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Vivian Carter, recording executive

Had things been different, Vivian Carter could have died a rich woman. Instead, she is a footnote in the annals of Beatlesmania and the shadow of Motown.

Born in 1921, Carter worked as a disc jockey at a Gary radio station. Her husband, James Bracken, owned a record store. The two noticed that the music Carter played was hard to find on vinyl, so they founded a record company of their own, Vee Jay Records, using $500 borrowed from a pawn store.

The company signed blues, doo-wop and jazz musicians. The first song they recorded made it to the Top 10 of the national rhythm and blues charts. Pre-Motown, Vee Jay Records was the most successful black music company.

In 1963, they signed the Beatles, engineering the initial release of "Please Please Me." The single sold a mere 5,650 copies. Their next Beatles release, "From Me to You" drew no air time and the label dropped the British band. A few years later, in 1966, Vee Jay records went bankrupt.

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Rhoda Coffin, prison reformer

Rhoda Coffin never did time herself. But through her efforts, she helped improve life for all women prisoners.

Born to an Orthodox Quaker in 1826, at age 18 the Ohio native moved to Richmond, considered the Midwest heart of Quaker activity. While in Indiana, she met and married Charles Coffin, scion of a local banking family. After raising six children, Coffin and her husband opened a Sabbath school in a working-class Richmond neighborhood in 1864. Women, she believed, wielded extensive moral influence .

When she learned that male prison guards stripped and whipped incarcerated women, she sprang into action, arguing for the establishment of separate women's prisons with female wardens. In 1873, largely due to her work, the Indiana Reformatory Institute for Women and Girls opened, the first prison in the country run by women.

Even after her husband was accused of fraud and embezzlement and the couple relocated to Chicago, Coffin continued to work for prison reform. She died in 1909.

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Margaret Ray Ringenberg, aviatrix

In 1921, Margaret Ray Ringenberg, then 7, saw a plane land in a field near her family's Adams County home. The pilot offered her and her family a quick ride, and Ringenberg was hooked. With her father's encouragement she attended flight school and completed her first solo flight at the age of 19.

In 1943, she joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots, or WASPs, ferrying planes around the U.S. during WWII. After a year, she moved to Fort Wayne and offered flying lessons. When Japan surrendered in August 1945, a local radio station hired her to drop 56,000 pamphlets, heralding the war's end, on the city.

After the war, Ringenberg married. She agreed to let her husband golf; he promised to let her fly. Over the years, she won more than 125 racing medals. In 1994, she raced around the world. At the age of 84, she competed in the 29th Annual Air Race Classic, in which pilots fly more than 2,300 miles over four days.

In 2008, at the age of 87. Ringenberg died in a hotel room. She was on her way to an air show.

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May Wright Sewall, suffragette

Lest you think that our state did not have its share of suffragists, consider the case of May Wright Sewall. Born in 1844, Sewall founded a female counterpart to the Indianapolis Classical School for Boys (started by her second husband) in 1882 and insisted that the curriculum for girls mirror that for boys. That meant that the girls took physical education, at a time when it was thought to be improper for young ladies to engage in physical activity.

In 1878, she helped found the Indianapolis Equal Suffrage Society, and from 1881-1883, she campaigned for women's suffrage in Indiana. She later worked alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. From 1882 to 1890, she chaired the National Woman Suffrage Association.

Locally, Sewall founded the Propylaeum, a social and cultural club for women, and the Art Association of Indianapolis, the predecessor to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In 1920, the year she died, she published a book called "Neither Dead Nor Sleeping," in which she talked about communicating with her dead husband.

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Frances Slocum, Indiana abductee

Long before missing children appeared on milk cartons, Frances Slocum was abducted at age 5 from her Pennsylvania home by the Delaware Indians. Although her Quaker family sought to find Slocum, born in 1773, they were not successful, at least not for several years.

Slocum married a Miami Indian chief, Shepoconah, and took the name, Maconaquah, "Little Bear Woman." The couple moved into the area near what is now Peru and had four children. In 1835, a white trader found her living in Indiana and alerted her surviving relatives. Her brothers and sisters visited and begged her to return to Pennsylvania. But she said she promised her late husband she would stay in Indiana.

When Congress passed a federal order to move the Miami tribe from Indiana to Kansas, Slocum's family appealed for an exemption for her and her family. She remained in Indiana until her death in 1847. Nicknamed "the White Rose of the Miami," Slocum remains a matriarch of the Indiana Miami Tribe. An estimated 20 percent are her descendants.

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Dorothy Stratton, Coast Guard officer

Dorothy C. Stratton saw many changes throughout the more than a century she lived. Born in 1899, she became Purdue's first full-time dean of women in 1933. Under her watch, the number of co-eds at the school went from 500 to more than 1,400 and three new women's residence halls were built. She also helped bring aviatrix Amelia Earhart to West Lafayette as a career counselor.

In 1942, she became director of the Women's Reserve of the Coast Guard. The first female commissioned officer in the Coast Guard, Stratton received a Legion of Merit medal in 1946.

After the war, Stratton worked for the International Monetary Fund and served as executive director of the Girls Scouts of the USA. She also represented the United Nations on the International Federation of University Women.

Four years after Stratton's death in 2006 at the age of 107, first lady Michelle Obama christened a Coast Guard cutter with her name in her memory.

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Lovina McCarthy Streight, Civil War nurse

Not many women fought in the Civil War. But when Lovina McCarthy Streight's husband, Abel, became commander of the 51st Indiana Volunteer Infantry, she would not hear of languishing at home. Instead, she and the couple's 5-year-old son went with him. Streight, who was born in 1830, nursed the wounded, eventually earning her the title "The Mother of the 51st." Confederate troops captured her three times, twice exchanging her for prisoners. The third time, she brandished a gun she had stashed inside her skirts.

Although her husband spent 10 months as a prisoner of war himself, the couple survived to return to their home in Indianapolis, where each year Streight organized a reunion of the regiment. After her husband died in 1892, Streight buried him in her front yard, to her neighbors' dismay. Abel was exhumed and reburied at Crown Hill Cemetery.

When Streight died in 1910, she was buried alongside her husband in a funeral that included full military honors and about 5,000 mourners, including 64 survivors of the 51st.

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The Underground Railroad had its beginnings in Indiana as early as 1831, and at its height, there were three main routes crossing through Indiana. One was located in the west, starting in Evansville. The second traveled on the east side of Indiana starting in Cincinnati, Ohio. The central route started in Louisville and Madison and made its way through Westfield.

From 1830 through the end of the Civil War, thousands of determined black families fled the brutal southern slave states, crossed the Ohio River and moved north through equally brutal Indiana. They traveled mostly at night, sheltered along the way by heroic families who put themselves in great peril by assisting fugitives. The passing of the Fugitive Slave Law permitted slave owners to pursue fleeing slaves and solicit help from the locals and thus making it illegal and very dangerous to help fugitives. Many communities were opposed to the effort.

Westfield was founded in 1834 by the Quakers from Virginia and the Carolinas, and by 1837, it was known as the North Central Station of the Underground Railroad. The Quakers were opposed to slavery and the town received the name, North Central Station, because it was the receiving point for slaves from all areas of the south. Westfield was known throughout the country as the "last hope" of the slaves, for once a slave reached Westfield, there was little chance of the owner getting him back. The fact that Noblesville was "pro-South" while people in Westfield were aiding escaped slaves illustrates that while many people have a romanticized view of the time period, things weren't that simple. Not everyone who lived North of the Mason-Dixon Line was as willing to help the slaves.

Only six towns in the state of Indiana have the distinction of participating in the Underground Railroad: Akron, Fountain City, Greensboro, New Albany, Orland and Westfield.

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