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| Indiana Facts |
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The Indiana constitution of 1816 directed the legislature to establish public schools, but it was not until the 1850s that state government was able to establish a public school system. |
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Deep below the earth in Southern Indiana is a sea of limestone that is one of the richest deposits of top-quality limestone found anywhere on earth. New York City's Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center as well as the Pentagon and the U.S. Treasury are built from limestone. |
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Indiana was part of the huge Northwest Territory, which included present day Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, which were ceded to the United States by the British at the end of the Revolutionary war. |
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