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Old 09-24-2011, 09:53 PM
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Janis
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Martinsville, In, "The City of Mineral Water." From 1888-1968 there were up several 'Sanitariums' (mineral water health spas) where people could come and 'get the cure' for whatever ailed them.
In 1899, Eugene Shireman started Grassyforks Fisheries in here and he raised and sold goldfish. In the 1930's our town was known as 'the goldfish capitol of the world.' Grassyforks was sold to Ozark Fisheries in 1970, and the former Grassyforks hatchery here, still in use, is the oldest continuous hatchery in the world, or so I'm told.
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