Parke Place Magazine

 

 

THE PARKE PLACE MAGAZINES

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

PUBLISHER RICHARD HARNEY

 

 

THE PUBLISHERS WERE RICHARD AND MARY JO HARNEY OF THE SENTINAL AND TORCH NEWSPAPERS.

Dick and Mary Jo Harney and daughters, Megan and Jessica, moved to Rockville in October of 1970 having purchased their first newspaper, The Rockville Tribune from George and Dorothy Schwin. Shortly after, in February of 1971, they purchased The Rockville Republican from Billy Hargrave who had owned the paper for years with his father, A.A. Hargrave.   Dick Harney died in November of 1999, and the Sentinel paper is currently being published by Mary Jo Harney.

THE FIRST FIVE MAGAZINES WERE PUBLISHED IN  1981.  THE 1981  EDITIONS WERE  REFERRED TO AS  VOLUME ONE ISSUES AND NUMBERED AS NUMBER ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR AND FIVE.  THE TWELVE ISSUES OF 1982 ARE LABELED VOLUME TWO ISSUES AND NUMBERED ONE THRU TWELVE TO MATCH THE MONTH OF ISSUE.  THE TWELVE ISSUES OF 1983 ARE LABELED VOLUME THREE ISSUES AND NUMBERED ONE THRU TWELVE TO MATCH THE MONTH OF ISSUE.  AND SO FORTH AND SO ON.    THERE WERE A TOTAL OF 85 PARKE PLACE MAGAZINES PUBLISHED, EACH WITH A CARTOON ON  OR INSIDE THE BACK COVER BY ARTIST HERMAN DAVIS.

THE PARKE PLACE MONTHLY  MAGAZINE DEBUTED IN AUGUST 1981 AND SOLD FOR 75 CENTS.      THE PRICE INCREASED TO $1.00 IN 1982 AND TO $1.50 IN AUGUST OF 1985.   THE LAST  TWO ISSUES WERE DOUBLE MONTH ISSUES PUBLISHED  JULY/AUGUST AND  SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1988 AND SOLD FOR $2.50. THE MAGAZINE PROVIDED PICTURES, INFORMATION, BIOGRAPHIES, HISTORY , LOCAL POETRY AND INTERESTING STORIES COVERING A MULTITUDE OF SUBJECTS OF INTEREST TO, AND ABOUT, AND CONTRIBUTED FROM  PARKE COUNTY RESIDENTS. 

A SPECIAL "THANKS"  TO MARY JO FOR ALLOWING US TO  RE-PUBLISH THESE COVER PAGES AND A WEALTH OF PARKE COUNTY HISTORY ON OUR WEBSITE,  AND FOR ALLOWING US TO  DEDICATE THIS SECTION TO HER HUSBAND, RICHARD HARNEY. 

 AND A SPECIAL "THANKS" TO ROX  ALUM JIM  (CLASS OF 1943) AND WINIFRED WARREN FOR SHARING THEIR COPIES OF THE PARKE PLACE MAGAZINES. 

AS TIME ALLOWS, WE WILL BE  ADDING INFORMATION REGARDING THE  MAGAZINES AND INFORMATION BENEATH EACH ISSUE DESCRIBING THE PICTURE ON EACH COVER.

 

THE FIRST EDITION

The first edition focused mostly around the history of the Parke County Fairs, both at the old fairground north of 36, then the fairs moved to the  court house square in 1921 and the fairs at the new fairgrounds out on 41 starting in the 1950s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Rockville High School Womens Basketball team approx. 1906.  Front row, third from the left is Mary Francis Ferguson (Collings), grandaughter of Solon Ferguson (Ferguson Lumber Co. founder).  Mary  was the daughter of Will E. Ferguson of Ferguson Lumber Co.  Mary later married Brooks Collings Class of 1909.

 

 

 

Rockville Fire Truck

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sheriff William Mull, back row with a star on his chest.  He was murdered  by shotgun on duty on the north side of the square along with Deputy William Sween in 1896 by Pete Egbert.   The picture below was cropped from the picture above. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Retirement Party of  publisher A. Hargraves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bridgeton Covered Bridge during a flood looking north.   The dam is under water where the water flows over it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Peoples Band of Marshall, Ind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing of the Rockville Presbyterian Church on the southwest corner of the square.

 

 

 

PARKE COUNTY MINERS.   This month's cover photograph was taken at old Greens' Creek mine southwest of Grange Corner (1910-1915).  Kneeling Francis Crowder, George "Chock" Crowder, Andy Perone, Mr. Duscin and Fred Leatherman.  Standing, Mort Thompson, John Swindler, Alford Blacketer, George Crowder, Tom Jack Nolan, Jim Moore, Jack Crowder, Ned Crowder.  Photo  courtesy of Everett Crowder, Lafayette, son of Ned Crowder and grandson of George Crowder.  The picture is mute testimony to the hard work miners did for such a low pay.  Their clothes were in rags and some shown here didn't even wear shoes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Five generations of ladies in the life of Artist Barbara Flock Malone.  Pictured is Barbara setting left, her daughter in the arms of Barbara's great great grandmother, Barbara's mother and grandmother standing,

 

Mr. Tenbrook

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Bridgeton Covered Bridge, the damn and the Mill looking south.

 

WWI Statue on the inside southwest corner of the Rockville Court House  lawn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actors dressed up for a performance

 

 

 

Coxville's Tex Terry with famous  TV cowboy star Roy Rogers.  Tex Terry played "the bad guy" on TV and in many movies opposite Roy Rogers and Gene Autry in the 1950's.  After retirement from Hollywood, Tex owned a restaurant in Coxville.  He was often seen around Rockville in the early 60's driving his bronze colored Cadillac  adorned with rifles mounted on the front and rear fenders, horse shoes as door handles, longhorn steer horns mounted on the top, and saddle type engraved leather seats. Later he had a convertable decked out with the same.  Tex is buried in Coxville.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NASA test pilot Tom McMurtry, Rockville Class of 1953.  Tom was inducted into the Rockville High School Hall of Fame in January 2011.

 

Rockville home of former Indiana Governor Joseph Wright.  The home is now on display at Billie Creek Village.

 

Drawing of the first "brick"  Parke county court house.  Built in 1832, this 60 X 60 ft. brick court house stood until the present limestone court house took its place in 1882.  The first court house was of logs and served from 1825 till 1832.  The log court house stood for many years after 1832 until it burned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Drawing of the First National Bank at Market and Ohio (U.S. 36).    This location was setting of "Rays Tavern".

Before Rockville existed, this area of wilderness was known as "Ray's Tavern". Andrew Ray built a double log house/tavern in 1823 where the National Bank now stands on the northeast corner of what is now Market and Ohio streets. It was in Ray's Tavern on Feb. 20, 1824 that the official decision was reached for this area to become the county seat and a more suitable name was needed for the new town.

The log house/tavern stood 44 years until 1867 when a 3 story National Bank Building took its place.   The tavern was moved one block north to York Street.   The 3 story bank building burnt and was replaced in 1906 with the present 2 story bank and office building.