Spotlight: Wabash. (Indiana)

Indiana Business Magazine | August 1, 1998| | Copyright

Like a lot of mayors, Robert McCallen of Wabash likes to call his city "Indiana's best kept secret."

There was a time, however, when the north-central Indiana community was not a secret at all, when Wabash was a name thousands of people spoke in astonishment and wonder. On the night of March 31, 1880, Wabash became the nation's first electrically lighted city. People from Chicago, Detroit and across Indiana rode on horseback to see four carbon lights, manufactured and displayed by The Brush Co. of Cleveland, illuminate the night sky from atop the Wabash County ...

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