Portal:Indianapolis/Did you know.../3

...that it took 38 years to build the Indiana World War Memorial (pictured), which deteriorated during its building?
...that the Indiana state constitution specifically states that Indianapolis's Military Park can never be sold?
...that Jacob Piatt Dunn in 1886 wrote the first scholarly history concerning the Indian Wars?
...that Indianapolis's Garfield Park Conservatory was the first glass and welded-aluminum conservatory in the United States?
...that Indiana's White River Park were the first state games to feature regional qualifiers instead of tryouts?
...that despite having only $300,000 to the incumbent's $4 million in campaign funds, Greg Ballard won the 2007 mayoral election in Indianapolis, one of the biggest electoral upsets in Indiana history?