At 450 West Ohio Street, the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center houses the Indiana Historical Society, and you are facing it now. This is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies; it calls itself "Indiana's Storyteller" and was founded in 1830 as a private, nonprofit membership organization. Housed here in The Canal and White River State Park Cultural District and neighboring the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, the center is a civic anchor — in 2019 it hosted 112,732 visitors.
Inside, the society maintains a research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest, and supports the wider museum and historical community through publications, teacher workshops, and youth, adult, and family programming, including Indiana’s participation in the National History Day Competition series. It also appoints and trains the state’s 92 county historians. Stand for a moment and imagine the work of generations preserved here: the books and periodicals, the trained county historians, the teachers and students who pass through.
Notice that this society appoints and trains all 92 of the state's county historians, work that reached 112,732 visitors here in 2019 alone.