Marker text: HOLY ROSARY-DANISH CHURCH HISTORIC DISTRICT
Platted 1854; now bounded by South East Street, Virginia Avenue, and interstates 65/70. Early residents were Germans, Irish, Scots, and Welsh. Danes resided in area circa 1870-1890. By 1910, ninety percent of area residents were Italian immigrants.
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Installed 2000 Indiana Historical Bureau and Italian Heritage Society of Indiana