“Phillips recalled that Flackville actually started at the corner of Tibbs and Lafayette Pike, “but moved north to 30th when Joe Flack opened his grocery there about the turn of the century. There was another article found from an Indianapolis Times paper dated Jtitled “Flackville: Graveyard Moved to Make Way for Instant Suburbia.” In part it stated: Ok–here is an article from that sheds some light on Flackville’s origins (looks like the moving of the cemetery was in the early 1960s and not the late 1950s):: There was quite a delay in construction while the churchyard was relocated. He became a believer pretty quick when they started finding the old caskets. When my friend told him about the churchyard, he didn’t believe it and started the construction. A friend of mine who worked at a title company during that time told the story about a guy who wanted to put a gas station there and had come to get a map and title.
The churchyard had disappeared by the late 1950s. There used to be a church catty corner from the school that had a cemetery (or churchyard). I found a newspaper article from that time period which covered the murder of a farmhand (can’t remember any of the details). The village of Flackville dates at least back to the 1890s. He went to grade school at the Flackville school and remembered that all of the kids had to bring their own tin cup to get drinking water out of the pump out back. Some time ago, someone tried to put Pizzeria in there.Ī few years back, I met a guy who had served in Europe during WW2 with the 9th Armored Division as a tanker. Wasson’s later became the (in)famous Piccadilly night club. I remember shopping trips to Wasson’s (which was close by) in the late 1960s-early 1970s. My family had a house in nearby Eagledale and we used the Eagledale Plaza shopping center a lot.
Although I didn’t attend this school, it was a visible part of my early childhood.
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