| 1 | 1 | | Introduced Version |
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| 2 | 2 | | SENATE CONCURRENT |
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| 3 | 3 | | RESOLUTION No. _____ |
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| 4 | 4 | | DIGEST OF INTRODUCED RESOLUTION |
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| 5 | 5 | | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Bicentennial of |
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| 6 | 6 | | Montgomery County, Indiana. |
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| 7 | 7 | | BOOTS |
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| 8 | 8 | | , read first time and referred to Committee on |
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| 9 | 9 | | 2022 RC 1532/DI RW Introduced |
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| 10 | 10 | | Second Regular Session 122nd General Assembly (2022) |
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| 11 | 11 | | SENATE CONCURRENT |
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| 12 | 12 | | RESOLUTION No. _____ |
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| 13 | 13 | | 1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the |
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| 14 | 14 | | 2 Bicentennial of Montgomery County, Indiana. |
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| 15 | 15 | | 3 Whereas, On December 21, 1822, the Indiana General |
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| 16 | 16 | | 4 Assembly admitted Montgomery County as the State's 44th |
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| 17 | 17 | | 5 county and named it after General Richard Montgomery, who |
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| 18 | 18 | | 6 fought and died in the Revolutionary War; |
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| 19 | 19 | | 7 Whereas, Prior to settlement and until as late as 1832, the |
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| 20 | 20 | | 8 area that would become Montgomery County was initially |
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| 21 | 21 | | 9 inhabited by Native Americans known as Mound Builders; |
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| 22 | 22 | | 10 Whereas, After first being settled by William Offield and his |
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| 23 | 23 | | 11 family in 1821, Montgomery County has been home to a |
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| 24 | 24 | | 12 number of notable residents to include Henry S. Lane, a |
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| 25 | 25 | | 13 founding member of the Republican Party; Lew Wallace, Civil |
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| 26 | 26 | | 14 War General and author of the best-selling novel Ben Hur; |
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| 27 | 27 | | 15 Mary Holloway Wilhite, the first woman to practice medicine |
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| 28 | 28 | | 16 in Indiana and proponent for women's equality during the |
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| 29 | 29 | | 17 suffrage movement; Wilbur De Paris, an African American Jazz |
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| 30 | 30 | | 18 Musician who toured with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, |
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| 31 | 31 | | 19 and Ella Fitzgerald; and Joseph P. Allen, a U.S. astronaut who |
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| 32 | 32 | | 20 logged a total of 314 hours in space; |
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| 33 | 33 | | 21 Whereas, The City of Crawfordsville, the seat of |
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| 34 | 34 | | 22 Montgomery County, is world-renowned for its variety, size, |
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| 35 | 35 | | 23 and completeness of crinoid specimens, where a noteworthy 60 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 24 different species of this fossilized creature have been found |
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| 37 | 37 | | 25 since they were discovered along Indian Creek in 1836; |
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| 38 | 38 | | 2022 RC 1532/DI RW 2 |
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| 39 | 39 | | 1 Whereas, Crawfordsville is also home to a strange |
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| 40 | 40 | | 2 phenomenon, now called the Crawfordsville Monster, described |
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| 41 | 41 | | 3 by many of the city's residents as a pure-white, eighteen-foot- |
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| 42 | 42 | | 4 long and eight-foot-wide mass with propelling fins and one |
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| 43 | 43 | | 5 great flaming eye that moved through the air on the night of |
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| 44 | 44 | | 6 September 5, 1891; |
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| 45 | 45 | | 7 Whereas, Montgomery County is home to several Carnegie |
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| 46 | 46 | | 8 libraries, including the first Carnegie library in the State of |
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| 47 | 47 | | 9 Indiana, which was built in Crawfordsville in 1901, and stands |
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| 48 | 48 | | 10 as a local museum; |
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| 49 | 49 | | 11 Whereas, Shades State Park, located in the Southwest |
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| 50 | 50 | | 12 corner of Montgomery County, was established in 1947 and |
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| 51 | 51 | | 13 continues to be a popular hiking and canoeing destination, |
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| 52 | 52 | | 14 receiving over 87,000 visitors in 2018-2019; |
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| 53 | 53 | | 15 Whereas, Montgomery County is considered the "Cradle of |
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| 54 | 54 | | 16 Basketball", as it is where the sport was first introduced to |
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| 55 | 55 | | 17 Indiana in 1892, the home of the first Indiana High School |
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| 56 | 56 | | 18 Athletic Association State Basketball Championship in 1911, |
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| 57 | 57 | | 19 and the location for the filming of "Hoosiers" in 1985; |
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| 58 | 58 | | 20 Whereas, December 21, 2022, will mark the official |
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| 59 | 59 | | 21 bicentennial of Montgomery County; |
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| 60 | 60 | | 22 Whereas, Throughout 2022, Montgomery County will |
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| 61 | 61 | | 23 celebrate its bicentennial through special events, history, and |
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| 62 | 62 | | 24 community involvement; and |
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| 63 | 63 | | 25 Whereas, It is fitting that the Montgomery County |
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| 64 | 64 | | 26 Bicentennial be recognized: Therefore, |
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| 65 | 65 | | 27 Be it resolved by the Senate of the General Assembly |
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| 66 | 66 | | 28 of the State of Indiana, the House of Representatives |
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| 67 | 67 | | 29 concurring: |
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| 68 | 68 | | 30 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly |
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| 69 | 69 | | 31 recognizes the Bicentennial of Montgomery County, Indiana. |
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| 70 | 70 | | 32 SECTION 2. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby directed |
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| 71 | 71 | | 2022 RC 1532/DI RW 3 |
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| 72 | 72 | | 1 to transmit copies of this Resolution to John Frey, President of |
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| 73 | 73 | | 2 Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, Commissioner |
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| 74 | 74 | | 3 Jim Fulwider, Commissioner Dan Guard, and County |
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| 75 | 75 | | 4 Administrator Tom Klein. |
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| 76 | 76 | | 2022 RC 1532/DI RW |
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