2009
A state disaster fund created by a $45 million Lilly grant awarded about $4.4 million to Columbus Regional Hospital to help with its recovery from the 2008 flood, which caused $178 million in damages to the facility.
1994
Rain and predictions of rain moved Popfest from the Bartholomew County Public Library Plaza to Columbus North High School for the first time in the concert’s 15-year history.
1969
Miss Elsie Sweeney purchased a 14-foot railing of aluminum and stainless steel for the clock tower at Bartholomew County Courthouse, designed to resemble an earlier railing that once topped the building.
