INDIANAPOLIS — Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Harrison are among the first 10 famous Hoosiers chosen to have their images and biographies displayed on 6-foot-high columns along a downtown Indianapolis street.
Mayor Greg Ballard said Wednesday that jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery, Shawnee chief Tecumseh, entrepreneur Madame C.J. Walker, and the family of Eli Lilly also will be memorialized along Georgia Street. The others are journalist Ernie Pyle, suffragette May Wright Sewall and novelists Booth Tarkington and Lew Wallace, who also was a Civil War general.
The Indianapolis Business Journal reports the Indianapolis Super Bowl Host Committee is paying about $10,000 each for the columns. They will be dedicated in early March during the Big Ten basketball tournament.
Ballard says eventually 30 Hoosiers will be honored.
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