Welcome to another edition of Tri-State Trivia, where I share with you interesting little factoids about our area of the country after I, myself, have discovered them because I think you might find them interesting too. You may remember the thrilling and highly educational, Tomato Juice Was Invented in Frech Lick, and, well that s it because I ve only written about that one and this one. With that said, my plan is to share more of these moving forward, so Stay Tuned as some of us radio people like to say.
Today our journey takes us to northern Indiana specifically, Wabash, Indiana. A small town with a population of 10,666 based on the 2010 census, according to Wikipedia, and roughly a one-hour drive southwest of Fort Wayne. It was here, way back in 1880, roughly one year after Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb, the first electric streetlight was installed in America.