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Terre Haute ( / ˈtɛrə ˈhoʊt / TERR-ə HOHT) [4] is a city in and the county seat of Vigo County, Indiana, United States, [5] about 5 miles (8 km) east of the state's western border with Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,389 [6] and its metropolitan area had a population of 168,716.
Terre Haute City Council. The Terre Haute City Council the legislative branch of government for the city of Terre Haute, Indiana. The council uses a strong mayor system with a separately elected mayor who acts as the executive. There are currently nine members of the council. City council members serve a four-year term and there is no term limit.
The first pay toilet in the United States was installed in 1910 in Terre Haute, Indiana. Cultural references. Whether or not public toilets should require payment is a plot point in Noël Coward's 1949 play South Sea Bubble. Pay toilets are key to the 2001 American musical Urinetown.
Union Hospital was founded August 11, 1892 as the Terre Haute Sanitarium by Dr. Benjamin F. Swafford and Dr. Leo J. Weinstein. The name was changed in 1895 to Union Home for Invalids after the two doctors donated half of their holdings to a group of citizens of various Protestant and Jewish backgrounds.
Mark Bennett can be reached at 812-231-4377 or mark.bennett@tribstar.com. Apr. 25—Two winter days, 13 months apart and nearly a half-century ago, epitomize a Terre Haute worth remembering. A ...
Eugene V. Debs. Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. [1] Through his presidential candidacies ...
Vigo County Courthouse. / 39.46583°N 87.41444°W / 39.46583; -87.41444. The Vigo County Courthouse is a courthouse in Terre Haute, Indiana. The seat of government for Vigo County, the courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
Ralph Tucker died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 71, on November 21, 1977. His funeral was the second of a prominent Terre Haute resident in the span of a month; Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Hulman & Co. owner Tony Hulman had died some three weeks earlier. Party political offices. Preceded by.