Join Freetown Village at Indiana Landmarks for their monthly conversation with historians, researchers, and educators as they discuss topics related to Indiana’s Black heritage. Our speaker will be local historian, Leon Bates.

At the northwest corner of the intersection of East 16th Street and North Carrollton Avenue stands a story red brick building constructed in the 19th century. From 1881 to 1922, it served as Indianapolis Fire Department Station 9 – the 2nd of Indianapolis’s four Jim Crow fire stations. The history of the men who served here, and those who eventually followed them, is little known, unappreciated, tragic, triumphant, and intriguing.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. at Indiana Landmarks, 1201 Central Ave, Indianapolis, and talk begins at 6 p.m. in person and online. Free with registration