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Old Town of Broad Ripple Meeting Minutes #263
posted: Oct. 08, 2026
This historic serial has run on and off in the last 22 years of the Broad Ripple Gazette. The intention is to share the history of Broad Ripple, help people find their ancestors in the text, and to complete the transcriptions of these important early documents.
The Town of Broad Ripple was incorporated in 1894, and started holding regular meetings at that time. In each issue, I will print my transcription of the old Town of Broad Ripple meeting minutes. These are taken from the original, hand-written minutes that contain many spelling errors. I have transcribed the records as they were entered, including errors. I will make some corrections to the text in brackets [ ]. I will try to include street name changes, such as: Shelby Street became 63rd, then Broad Ripple Avenue, Morgan Street is now Guilford, North is now 64th, Hancock is now Westfield, Light Ave is College. See more of our street name research at BroadRippleHistory.org - Alan
The original minutes books are at the Indiana State Archives at 6440 E. 30th St.
Here is the two-hundred-sixty-third installment
Broad Ripple Town Minutes - Book 2 - Pages 112 & 113
Citizens present request for sidewalks
The Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple met in regular session Tuesday evening May - 2nd - 1911, all members being present.
Minutes of previous regular and special meetings were read and approved.
Petition was presented ______ [requested? see image below] by near (?) property owners asking for sidewalk and curb construction on Broadway St. from 57th to 60th sts. Petition was passed upon favorably and motion carried to have improvement resolution drawn for such improvement.
Motion was made and carried that the board meet with the property owners abutting Canal Ave relative to securing an addition of 5 ft off of the property on south side of Canal from Morgan St to College Ave.
Motion carried instructing the Town Clerk notify the Union Traction Co that it is the desire of the Board that said Traction Company hereafter do not stop their cars at substations so as to interfere with traffic on 64th St and that they be requested to change the telephone booth.
Motion was carried to have improvement resolution drawn for improvement of Shelby St. across Monon right of way.
Bills were allowed amounting to 59.79
No further business coming before the board. They stood adjourned.
Attest Fletcher Johnson
Town Clerk. GH Hesler. Pres
The Board of Trustees of the Town of Broad Ripple met in regular session Tuesday evening June - 6th - 1911, all members being present.
Minutes of previous regular were read and approved.
Improvement Resolution #6 of 1911 passed upon first and second reading providing for the improvement, without petition, of the south side of Shelby or 63rd St in the Town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, Indiana, between the east and west property lines of the Monon or Chicago, Indpls + Louisville Railway Company's right of way at the intersection of its property with said street and declaring an emergency.
Improvement Resolution #7 of 1911 passed upon first and second reading pursuant to petition to further improve Broadway st in The Town of Brd. Ripple, Marion Co, Ind, from 47th st. to 60th st by constructing a concrete sidewalk 5 ft-wide and concrete curb 24" deep on both sides of the street and grading the roadway and declaring an emergency.
[arrow indicates that this lower paragraph should go here]
Improvement Resolution #8 of 1911 passed upon 1st and 2nd reading providing for the improvement, without petition, of part of the Square (?) in Hancock street, lying between Morgan st and Canal Avenue in The Town of Brd. Ripple, Marion Co, Ind, and declaring an emergency.
Motion was made and carried instructing the Clerk notify the Indpls Light + Heat Co. that their contract is void and request said company if it is their pleasure that the Board declare the contract void or what disposition they wish to make of the contract.
Motion carried to have three men, employed by Traction Company at White City Park, qualified by the Town Trustees as regular Town Marshalls with Police powers.
[ margin - End of Improvement. -> ]
Bills were allowed amounting to 386.86.
No further business coming before the meeting the Board stood adjourned.
Attest Fletcher Johnson
Town Clerk. GH Hesler. Pres
{next issue: new resolutions for improvements.}
The test after "presented" looks like request, but should be requested?
alan@broadripplegazette.com
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