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Terre Haute

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Terre Haute is a city of 61,000 people in west-central Indiana, about 180 mi south of Chicago and 1 hour southwest of Indianapolis. Terre Haute is one of the largest cities in the Wabash Valley and is known as the "Queen City of the Wabash".

Lafayette

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Lafayette is the county seat of Tippecanoe County, Central Indiana. It is located 2 hours southeast of Chicago and 1 hour northwest of Indianapolis. The Greater Lafayette metropolitan area consists of the cities of Lafayette and West Lafayette.

Muncie

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Muncie, named after the "Munsee" clan of Lenape people and home to Ball State University, is a city in the east of Central Indiana. It was an industrial titan in its time but then felt the effects of deindustrialization.

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Kokomo

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Kokomo is in Indiana, in the United States of America. Kokomo, named after a Miami chief, is known as "The City Of Firsts" due to innovations that occurred in tandem with the birth of the natural gas extraction industry there, especially as it pertained to automobile manufacturing.

Richmond

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Richmond is a city in Central Indiana. It was founded by Carolina Quakers in 1806. Known as the "cradle of recorded jazz" or formerly as the Rose City for its rose cultivation, it has the honor of having had the first complete high school orchestra in the…

Crawfordsville

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Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, 49 miles west by northwest of Indianapolis. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 16,306.

New Castle

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New Castle is a city in Henry County, Central Indiana. Like Anderson and Connersville and other cities in the area, it had a manufacturing heyday for a period before economic changes swept in.

Connersville

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Connersville, seat of Fayette County, is in Central Indiana and has a smattering of historical and natural attractions.

Marion

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Marion is a small city in Central Indiana, the home of Indiana Wesleyan University, and birthplace of James Dean.

Covington

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Covington is a small town in Central Indiana. It is the seat of government for Fountain County.

Rushville

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Rushville is a city in Rushville Township, Rush County, Indiana, United States. The population was 6,185 at the 2020 census. The city is the county seat of Rush County.

Spencer

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Spencer is a small town in Central Indiana. It was founded in 1820, and covers less that 2 square miles of land. It is the seat of Owen County.

Odon

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Odon is a town in Madison Township, Daviess County, Indiana, United States. The population was 1,397 at the 2020 census.

Knightstown

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Knightstown is a small town in Central Indiana, best known as the filming location for the movie Hoosiers.

Turkey Run State Park

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Turkey Run State Park is a state park in Central Indiana. Turkey Run is most famous for its beautiful sandstone cliffs and canyons. This state park is one of the most popular in the state and can be very crowded on summer weekends and especially around holidays like the 4th of July.

Shades State Park

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Shades State Park Route 1, Waveland, 17 miles south of Crawfordsville, +1 765 435-2810, is in Central Indiana.

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