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Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Monroe County History Center, Bloomington is known as the "Gateway to Scenic Southern Indiana." The city was established in 1818 by a group of settlers from Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas, and Virginia who were so impressed with "a haven of blooms" that they called it Bloomington.
Ellettsville is a town in Richland Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 6,778 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ellettsville is the starting point for the Hilly Hundred, a two-day bicycle tour.
Stinesville is a town in Bean Blossom Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 198 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation (RBB) is a school corporation located in northwestern Monroe County, Indiana, USA. RBB is the only school corporation in the county apart from the Monroe County Community School Corporation (MCCSC), which serves most of the county. RBB provides public schooling for the Richland and Bean Blossom townships, which includes the towns of Ellettsville and Stinesville.
The Tri-County Conference (TCC) is an MHSAA athletic league currently located in Hillsdale, Lenawee, and Monroe Counties.
Monroe is a small unincorporated community in Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The community is part of the Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Richland Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 14,343 and it contained 6,066 housing units.
Edgewood High School is located in Ellettsville, Indiana. The school is the sole high school in the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation and opened in 1965, shortly after the school district consolidated Ellettsville and Stinesville schools.
Centerton is an unincorporated community in Clay Township, Morgan County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Sanders is an unincorporated community in Perry Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
The Bloomington, Indiana, Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area comprising three counties in south-central Indiana. The city of Bloomington in Monroe County is the area's principal municipality and its anchor. At the 2010 United States census, the MSA had a population of 192,714.
The Millen House is a historic residence on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Built by an early farmer, it is one of Bloomington's oldest houses, and it has been named a historic landmark.
The Mississinewa Valley Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference based in East Central Indiana that lasted between 1952 and 1977. The conference started out as a conference for larger rural schools as a way to provide a higher level of competition than their respective County Conferences typically provided. The conference was stable for its first decade, but consolidation and more regionally based conferences with schools of similar sizes had schools defecting the MVC. The conference ended in 1977, with three schools forming the Classic Athletic Conference, and one team each joining the Mid-Eastern and Mid-Indiana conferences.
The Tri-County Conference was a league that ran from 1950 to 1965, and is considered a direct forerunner to the Mid-Indiana Conference. The league began in 1950 as the Howard-Miami Conference, as the three schools left from the post-consolidation Howard County Conference joined with three schools from Miami County. The conference changed its name to the TCC when Swayzee and Sweetser, from Grant County joined. When school consolidation forced the conference to look outside its footprint to find similar-sized schools, in 1965 it became the current MIC.
Monroe County Public Library (MCPL) serves the 138,000 citizens of Monroe County, Indiana, through the Main Library in downtown Bloomington, the Ellettsville Branch, and the Bookmobile. The library’s special services include the Learn and Play Space, a preschool discovery center; VITAL, an adult literacy program; CATS, a five-channel community access television network; the Indiana Room, a local history and genealogy collection and grants center ; and service to inmates at the Monroe County Correctional Center.
There were numerous conferences within the IHSAA that were made up of schools based entirely in one county. Many of these "County Conferences" also contained schools from neighboring counties that were either geographically closer or smaller than the other schools in their home county. These conferences would fold when schools would consolidate and seek out other, more expansive conferences that included similar-sized schools. The starting date of many of these conferences is hard to confirm, so the listing for many of these leagues uses the earliest date that can be confirmed.
The Eastern Wabash Valley Conference was a short-lived IHSAA-sanctioned conference located in Northeast Indiana. The league started in 1959, as five schools broke away from the Eastern Indiana Conference and joined with Wells County Conference member Ossian. This lineup lasted only three years, as Berne would return to the EIC in 1962. The remaining five schools stuck together until 1966, as Geneva high school closed. Lancaster Central, Monmouth, and Ossian were all slated to close that next year, so the remaining four schools went their separate ways. Adams Central would be joined by Ossian in the ACAC, while Lancaster and Monmouth would play out their last season by returning to the EIC.
The Laughery Valley Conference was an IHSAA-sanctioned conference that existed between 1941 and 1958. The conference had its footprint in the Southeast Indiana counties of Dearborn, Ohio, Ripley, and Switzerland. The conference was stable for its first 11 years, but lost three schools to the Ohio River Valley Conference within two years. The LVC folded in 1958, as two of the five members at the time consolidated, and the two Ripley County schools left joined their counterparts in the Tri-County Conference. Patriot, unable to obtain membership in the ORVC or TCC, played as an independent until it consolidated into Switzerland County in 1968.
Ellettsville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana. The district encompasses 50 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Ellettsville. It developed between about 1840 and 1953, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Early Commercial, Gothic Revival, and Bungalow/American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Robert Stimson House, May Presley House, Bradford House, George W. Fletcher House, Wickens House (1909), Capt. Gilbert Perry House, I.O.O.F. Building, Town Hall (1927), Masonic Building (1895), Knights of Pythias Building, First United Methodist Church (1900), and First Baptist Church (1909).
St. John's Lutheran Church, also known as Old Dutch Church, was a historic Lutheran church located near Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana. It was a one-story, log building sheathed in yellow poplar siding. It has been demolished.
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- ↑ "County News". Ellettsville Farm (Ellettsville, IN). 1935-12-26. Retrieved 2017-04-01.
- ↑ "Ellettsville vs. Springville Sat. Night". Ellettsville Farm (Ellettsville, IN). 1935-11-21. Retrieved 2017-04-01.