Here is your quiz on county events & history

Each year the County Line offers a quiz to allow readers to see how they are keeping up with events, history, and personalities in Hamilton County.

Following are 10 questions (with answers at the bottom of this post) to test knowledge of our county. If you are correct on all questions, you are very well informed on Hamilton County. Getting fewer than half might mean you have some work to do.

1. The Midland Trace Trail is becoming a popular walking and biking pathway in the Westfield area going as far east as Gray Road and is under development into Noblesville. Where does it get the name Midland?
2. Despite all the housing and business development, how much of the county is considered rural or farmland?
3. What nationally famous clothing designer was a Noblesville native?
4. Bethlehem was the original name for what Hamilton County community?
5. Victoria Spartz is the county’s current representative in the U.S. Congress. Who served immediately before her?
6. Surprisingly, not all of Hamilton County is in the northern half of Indiana. What county roadway geographically separates the state between north and south?
7. What nationally famous murder trial was held in Hamilton Circuit Court?
8. Indiana’s first and only Mormon temple was built in the county in 2015. Where is it located?
9. What two U.S. presidents have made appearances in Noblesville?
10. What county community was a transportation center for the Underground Railroad prior to the Civil War?

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Answers to quiz

1. Midland was the name of a railroad which once ran across the state from Muncie to Crawfordsville. The railbed now serves as the Midland trail.
2. Approximately half the county, 128,000 acres, is still comprised of farmland or non-developed rural area.
3. Norman Levinson, who adopted the name Norman Norell, was born in Noblesville in 1900. He was a New York clothing designer, especially for women, for nearly half a century.
4. Bethlehem was the original name for Carmel when it was platted in 1837, and changed to Carmel when a post office was established there.
5. Another woman, Susan Brooks, represented the county in Congress prior to Victoria Spartz.
6. Although generally assumed that U.S. 40 crosses the middle of the state, 116th Street is actually the dividing line between northern and southern Indiana.
7. The 1925 murder trial of D.C. Stephenson, head of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, took place in Hamilton County. Stephenson famously said, “I am the law in Indiana.” The guilty verdict brought the demise of the Klan in Indiana and had national implications since Stephenson had hopes of taking over the national Klan.
8. The Indianapolis area temple of the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints is located at 116th Street and Spring Mill Road, serving about 46,000 Mormons in the state.
9. Presidents Harry Truman and Teddy Roosevelt made campaign re-election appearances in Noblesville. Five others visited the county when running for office: Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Franklin Roosevelt, William McKinley, and Benjamin Harrison.
10. Westfield was a center of activity on the Underground Railroad. Several Quaker families sheltered slaves making their way to freedom in Canada. The route of the central Underground operated through Clay, Washington, and Adams townships in the decades before the Civil War.