Indiana

I live in boring, corn-filled Indiana. Yep, Indiana. Recently, I was trying to think about interesting things about my state, but I couldn’t. I could however think of why I don’t like my state. Other than an occasional mention of Indiana Jones, no one ever thinks of us! We don’t have any “est” places to make us special like driest, biggest, deepest, widest, highest, lowest, etc. In fact, the highest elevation in our leveled, farming state is called “Hoosier Hill.” So, we don’t even have majestic scenery either. We have corn and racecars. So, I decided to find some interesting, arcane facts about Indiana.

Indiana means, “Land of the Indians,” and was the 19th state admitted to the Union on December 11, 1816. Indiana is ranked #15 in state with highest population which, quite frankly, surprised me since we have a lot of farming land. Indiana is the smallest state, other than Hawaii, west of the Appalachian Mountains.