Editing Crawfordsville, Indiana (section)

===20th century===
[[File: Crawfordsville IN - view from courthouse.JPG|thumb|Washington and Main streets from the courthouse in 1997]]
The beginning of the 20th century marked important steps for Crawfordsville, as [[Culver Union Hospital]] and the [[Carnegie library|Carnegie Library]] were built in 1902. Culver operated as a not-for-profit, municipally-owned facility for 80 years, but was then sold to for-profit American Medical International, and in 1984 was relocated from its original location near downtown to a new campus north of the city. The hospital's ownership was transferred to [[Franciscan Alliance, Inc.|Sisters of St. Francis Health Services, Inc.]] in 2000 and renamed St. Clare Medical Center. In 2011, it was again renamed, to [[Franciscan St. Elizabeth Health - Crawfordsville]]. In 1911, [[Crawfordsville High School]] was founded, and promptly won the state's first high school basketball title.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lane-mchs.org/Crawfordsville%201911%20state%20basketball%20champs.pdf|title=Montgomery County Historical Society Profiles: the First High School Basketball Champion}}</ref> Crawfordsville's major employer for much of the century, commercial printer [[RR Donnelley]], began operations in Crawfordsville in 1922.

Recent history has held few nationally noteworthy events for the city but much internal change. [[Nucor Steel]], [[CSI Closures]] (formerly [[Alcoa]]), [[Raybestos]] Products Company, [[Pace Dairy Foods]], and [[Random House]] have all created factories in or near Crawfordsville which provided employment to much of the population. Manpower has taken over as the primary employer in the city and has allowed most of the local companies to reduce employees. In 2008, Raybestos laid off the majority of its workforce with less than 100 employees left. [[Wabash College]] won the Division III NCAA basketball title in 1982. The college plays an annual football game against [[Depauw University]] for the [[Monon Bell]], one of the oldest rivalries in all college sports. In 1998, the state began a proposed project to widen [[U.S. Route 231 in Indiana|U.S. Route 231]], in an attempt to ease intrastate travel flow.