From The Lafayette Argus (Lafayette, Indiana) Thursday, July 5, 1860 The Fourth at Crawfordsville Lew Wallace       The eighty-fourth anniversary of our National Independence was celebrated at Crawfordsville in a  patriotic and becoming manner. The day was ushered in by the firing of cannon, ringing of bells, and juvenile demonstrations generally. At about 10 o'clock A.M. the various military companies of Montgomery County -- consisting of the Montgomery Guards, College Cadets, Ladoga Blues, and two other companies, the names of which we did not learn--the Lafayette Gun Squad, each with their respective music, and the Crawfordsville Brass Band, paraded the various streets, followed by a large concourse of citizens and strangers, thence to a grove near at hand, where the various ceremonies of the occasion, as published, were consummated.      Dr. White, President of Wabash College, opened with prayer, in his usual efficient and effective ma...

 The Weekly Journal (Lafayette, Indiana) - Fri, Apr 24, 1863 Conductor Rides Hand Car to Lafayette to Get Rescue Train  The train due from New Albany at this city on Saturday evening at 9 P.M., did not arrive until Sunday morning in consequence of an accident at Cherry Grove, five miles north of Crawfordsville. The switch at that place had been so arranged, whether by accident or design is not known, as to run the train off the track. The train was nearly two hours behind time, the night very dark and a frightful storm raging at the time, and but for the fact that the engineer was unable with the green wood he happened to have to make as fast time as he desired, we should have had to record a dreadful accident. As it was no person was hurt. The locomotive and tender ran off the track and were turned over in the mud and a portion of the track torn up. The passengers were compelled to remain all night in the cars while the conductor went to LaFayette in a hand car, got another t...