Lower Seminary School / Trolley Barn

The first school on this site was built in the early 1840s as a tuition academy. It later became a city school, with wings added in the 1870s. In 1923, that building was demolished for a modern school named for principal Lydia Middleton, and in 2006 the building was renovated and expanded and continues to serve local school children. Another building on the site, built in 1875, served as a farmer's market for 10 years before Madison Light and Power Company converted it into a coal-fired power plant that generated electricity for new city street lights. From 1898 to 1919, the city's trolley, whose tracks ran down the middle of Main Street, was powered by electricity, and lady conductors collected the 5¢ fare.

Madison, Indiana · United States