Maintaining Historic Houses of Worship

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Indianapolis

As shrinking congregations increasingly struggle to maintain aging religious properties, three central Indiana churches are working to restore and protect their historic buildings.

Boxley Cabin and the Legacy of a Fugitive Abolitionist

Boxley-Cabin-Sheridan

Around 1828, George Boxely — a Virginia abolitionist — arrived in Indiana. The cabin he built, rescued and revived by the Sheridan Historical Society and Town of Sheridan, gives you an appreciation of what “home” was like in the Indiana wilderness.