Wayne County History

Wayne County, Indiana is named for?

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Wayne County, Indiana was founded in what year?

• 1816

• 1811

• 1824

• 1790

The first County Seat in Wayne County was?

• Salisbury

• Centerville

• Richmond

• Boston

Which Wayne County native served as Indiana's Governor?

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Wayne County (and Hagerstown) inventor Ralph Teetor invented?

• Mobile Phone

• Speed-o-Stat (cruise control)

• Canal Locks

• The Atom Bomb

This artist began their music career singing at the Holiday Inn in Richmond, Indiana?

• Barry Manilow

• Hoagy Carmichael

• Bing Crosby

• Jelly Roll Morton

Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Gene Autry,

and even Lawrence Welk came to Wayne County to?

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One half of this famous pair of brothers attended high school

in Richmond, Indiana before moving to Dayton, Ohio?

• Frank James

  (Jesse James)

• Groucho Marx

  (Harpo Marx)

• Wilbur Wright

  (Orville Wright)

• Casey Affleck

  (Ben Affleck)

All of the following U.S. Presidents that have spoken in Wayne County, Indiana, but one. Which one did not?

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Richard Nixon

• Dwight D. Eisenhower

• John F. Kennedy

• Herbert Hoover

Which of the following was not an early famous part of Wayne County's history?

• The National Road (U.S. 40)

• Uranus Fudge Factory

• The Courthouse Battle for the County Seat "Black Betty"

• Madonna of the Trail Statue