The city is at the fork of the Little Blue and Big Blue Rivers.Īccording to the 2010 census, Shelbyville has a total area of 11.845 square miles (30.68 km 2), of which 11.56 square miles (29.94 km 2) (or 97.59%) is land and 0.285 square miles (0.74 km 2) (or 2.41%) is water. It is 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Downtown Indianapolis. Shelbyville is located in Central Indiana and within the Indianapolis metropolitan area. Horseshoe Indianapolis (owned by Caesars Entertainment) opened in 2009.

The Grover Museum features a 'Streets of Old Shelby' exhibit. Pearson School, Porter Pool Bathhouse, Shelbyville Commercial Historic District, Shelby County Courthouse, Shelbyville High School, and West Side Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Nearly thirty of the 83 people killed were never identified and were buried in a mass grave in Shelbyville. The city charter received at that time was destroyed in the City Hall fire on January 1, 1928.Ī railroad was built connecting Shelbyville to Indianapolis in the late 1830s, the first railroad in the state, that later expanded to connect to Madison and Jeffersonville.Īllegheny Airlines Flight 853 crashed on September 9, 1969, near Fairland. The Shelbyville post office has been in operation since 1823.

Shelbyville was named in honor of Isaac Shelby, the first and fifth Governor of Kentucky and soldier in Lord Dunmore's War, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Whetzel's Trace was cut just 4 miles north of site of Shelbyville and proved important in the settlement of Shelby County. This trail became known as Whetzel's Trace and was the first east–west road into the New Purchase of central Indiana. Also in 1818, the backwoodsman Jacob Whetzel and a party cut a trail through this ' New Purchase' from the Whitewater River at Laurel due west to the White River at Waverly. In 1818, the land that would become Shelbyville was ceded to the United States by the Miami tribe in the Treaty of St.

History Shelbyville Commercial Historic District dating back to 1886 John Hamilton House built 1853 The population was 20,067 as of the 2020 census. Shelbyville is a city in Addison Township, Shelby County, in the U.S.

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