Editing Shelbyville, Indiana (section)

== History ==

[[Image: Shelbyville_Commercial_Historic_District.jpg|thumb|[[Shelbyville Commercial Historic District]] dating back to 1886]]

[[Image: John_Hamilton_House_in_Shelbyville.jpg|thumb|[[John Hamilton House]] built 1853]]

In 1818, the land that would become Shelbyville was ceded to the United States by the [[Miami tribe]] in the [[Treaty of St. Mary's]]. Also in 1818, the backwoodsman Jacob Whetzel and a party cut a trail through this "[[New Purchase (1818)|New Purchase]]" from the [[Whitewater River (Great Miami River)|Whitewater River]] at [[Laurel, Indiana|Laurel]] due west to the [[White River (Indiana)|White River]] at [[Waverly, Indiana|Waverly]]. This trail became known as Whetzel's Trace and was the first east–west road into the New Purchase of central Indiana. Whetzel's Trace was cut just 4 miles north of site of Shelbyville and proved important in the settlement of Shelby County.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=George R. |title=Early Indiana Trails and Surveys |publisher=The Society of Indiana Pioneers |pages=51–53 }}{{Request quotation|date=December 2015}}</ref>

Shelbyville was [[plat]]ted in 1822.<ref>{{cite book|title=History of Shelby County, Indiana: From the Earliest Time to the Present, with Biographical Sketches, Notes, Etc.|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofshelbyc00bran|year=1887|publisher=Brant & Fuller|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofshelbyc00bran/page/407 407]}}</ref> Shelbyville was named in honor of [[Isaac Shelby]], the first and fifth [[Governor of Kentucky]] and soldier in [[Lord Dunmore's War]], the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], and the [[War of 1812]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Couch|first1=Ernie|last2=Couch|first2=Jill|title=Indiana Trivia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-QexQkIKHDgC&pg=PT18|date=23 October 2000|publisher=Thomas Nelson|isbn=978-1-4185-7362-1|page=18}}</ref> The town incorporated January 21, 1850.<ref>{{cite book|last=Chadwick|first=Edward H.|title=Chadwick's History of Shelby County, Indiana|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N080AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA281|year=1909|publisher=B.F. Bowen|page=281}}</ref>

The Shelbyville post office has been in operation since 1823.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=IN&county=Shelby&searchtext=&pagenum=2 | title=Shelby County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=November 8, 2016}}</ref>

The city charter received at that time was destroyed in the City Hall fire on January 1, 1928.

A railroad was built connecting Shelbyville to [[Indianapolis]] in the late 1830s, the first railroad in the state; it was later expanded to connect to [[Madison, Indiana|Madison]] and [[Jeffersonville, Indiana|Jeffersonville]].

[[Allegheny Airlines Flight 853]] crashed on September 9, 1969, near [[Fairland, Indiana|Fairland]]. Nearly 30 of the 83 people killed were never identified and were buried in a mass grave in Shelbyville.<ref>[http://www.shelbynews.com/news/article_41604d8c-378a-11e4-a4aa-0019bb2963f4.html Residents recall deadly plane crash near London]</ref>

[[John Hamilton House]], [[Lora B. Pearson School]], [[Porter Pool Bathhouse]], [[Shelbyville Commercial Historic District]], [[Shelby County Courthouse (Indiana)|Shelby County Courthouse]], [[Shelbyville High School (Indiana)|Shelbyville High School]], and [[West Side Historic District (Shelbyville, Indiana)|West Side Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref><ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/listings/20111223.htm|title=National Register of Historic Places Listings|date=2011-12-23|work=Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 12/12/11 through 12/16/11 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> The [[Grover Museum]] features a "Streets of Old Shelby" exhibit.

[[Horseshoe Indianapolis]] (owned by [[Caesars Entertainment (2020)|Caesars Entertainment]]) opened in 2009.