Talk:Alexandria, Indiana

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Alexandria is known as "Small Town USA" and holds an annual festival to celebrate. There is one high school, Alexandria Monroe. High school teams use the nickname "Tigers", and are well known for both the girls and boys basketball teams. In addition to being home to the "Tigers", Alexandria is also home to Bill and Gloria Gaither,The Gaither Music Company, and their recording studios. Former teachers in the Alexandria school system, the Gaithers have won seven Grammys, and more than twenty Dove Awards for their music. They also have been named the first "Christian Songwriters of the Century" by ASCAP.

P. Butner--216.49.165.249 10:27, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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The folowing content was added by a user I am almost certan has a conflict of interest here, they are not bad additions, they just need to be cleand up and be objective and cited. CombatWombat42 (talk) 17:39, 23 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

History

− − The city is located in rich farm country, which produces corn, soybeans, and tomatoes; and is in the Indiana natural gas region, to which fact it owed its growth as a manufacturing center. The natural gas boom started in 1887. Alexandria was one of the principal seats of the glass industry in Indiana – plate glass, lamp chimneys, and mirrors, were once manufactured here. Charles Corydon Hall, a New England engineer, arrived in Alexandria to help manage a steel mill just as its natural gas supply was exhausted around the turn of the 19th century. Hall stayed to invent the first successful mineral-fiber insulation and built a company to produce it. For some decades the banner of the local newspaper featured the verse "Alexandria, Indiana/Home of the Rock Wool/Not on the Nile/But just as worthwhile." Alexandria was founded in 1836 and was chartered as a city in 1893.

− Although the natural gas boom ran it's course in the early 20th century, today the city is alive with new business and industry. Now in the area businesses include high-tech T-shirt printing company, gospel music recording studio, resin patio furniture company, ethanol fuel producer, and one of the largest tomato producers in the US.

− Alexandria was nicknamed "Small Town USA" by the department of defense during WWII. Booklets were created to show the typical US town to the enemy as a way of propaganda .The city holds an annual festival to honor it's heritage. In 2012 they celebrated the 25th anniversary of this festival which took place at Beulah Park. Beulah Park is also the home to the Madison County 4H Fair every July. There are many other activities and events throughout the year too. There are the Strawberry Social (June), CARE Day (spring), Alexandria Grand Prix (August), Safe Halloween (October), and Annual Christmas Parade (December).}}

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