My neighborhood is hollo Fishtown , which I intend is jolly smashing . Venerable Flackville kind of blows that out of the water , though . So who put the Flack in Flackville ? That would be Mr. Joseph F. Flack ( 1843 - 1926 ) , who went west with his household from Ohio when he was a child . After turn in agriculture for a while , he became a brick maker and jell up a brickfield in what was then a rural region northwest of Indianapolis .
ack-ack , manifestly , was no slouch in the arena of brickmaking . According to the bookGreater Indianapolis : The History , the Industries , the Institutions , and the masses of a City of Homes , he churned out some 55 million in his life history , all of which were used in Indianapolis construction and a million and a one-half of which were “ consumed in the expression of the edifice for mad women in 1871 . ”
antiaircraft expand his business interest over the years , buy a dairy farm near his brickyard and commercial-grade and residential substantial estate in that area and in business district Indianapolis . At one point or another , according to one of his obituaries , he owned most of the land in what ’s now the westerly part of the city . He have so much of it , in fact , that the locals began loaning the area his name .
To get downtown from his little realm , Flack and anyone drag his bricks or milk had to use a toll road . flak did n’t like that , so he grease one’s palms a strip of Din Land running parallel to the toll route and made his own roadway . “ It was that kind of shrewd operating which made Flack ' the richest piece in these parting , ’ ” theIndianapolis Timessaid in 1962 . “ And naming the settlement in his honor keep abreast naturally . " No Holy Writ on what made Flack or the neighbourhood so august , though .
Venerable Flackville might be one of the weirdest region names I ’ve heard ( see also : The Tenderloin , in San Francisco ) , but then I do n’t spend a lot of clip rooting around for eldritch neighborhood names . What are some near ones that I ’m escape out on ?
