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Happy Friday, Lafayette.
It looks like the weather is clear on Saturday, so go Mosey on down Main Street.
And to all you mothers out there, Happy (early) Mother’s Day!
Here’s what’s in Friday’s edition:
Go Mosey
West Lafayette’s old name
Creasy Lane Resurfacing
The events section
Lafayette Moving Totes
Moving with cardboard boxes can be a pain. They collapse halfway up the stairs, tear at the corners, and then sit in your garage for six months after you've unpacked.
Lafayette Moving Totes rents sturdy, stackable plastic totes that they deliver to your door and pick up after you’ve moved. No tape, no late-night box runs to Lowes, no cardboard graveyard in the garage.
For Purdue students, Lafayette Moving Totes will drop totes at your apartment or dorm before move-out and haul them away once you're settled somewhere new. Realtors looking for a closing gift can hand their clients a tote rental that makes move-in dramatically less painful. And for locals moving across town, it means one trip to pack, one trip to unpack, and nothing left over.
They currently have a 10% discount running for new customers (use code: MOVE10)
Photo Credit: Mosey Down Main Street’s Facebook
Mosey Down Main Street
Main Street is being taken over from 6th to 11th this weekend.
Downtown will essentially be a block party. You’ll see three stages filled with bands, local shops and vendors lining the streets, and FOOD.
Go walk a few blocks, listen to some music, eat some food you didn’t plan on eating, and run into some people you haven’t seen in a minute.
If you want to plan ahead, here’s an interactive map. Click the stages for lineups, zoom in on the booths to see who's set up where.
Or just show up and enjoy.
Photo Credit: Indianahistory.com
Before West Lafayette, There Was Chauncey
The hilltop across the Wabash from Lafayette went by other names before "West Lafayette" stuck. Settlers in the 1820s called it "Jacktown," after Captain Samuel B. J. Caster's blacksmith shop (near today's South Street and Chauncey Avenue).
Augustus Wylie platted a "West Lafayette" in 1836 with 140 lots in the Wabash floodplain, but recurring floods doomed it. Jesse and Jane Lutz platted Kingston, up the hill, in 1855. Then, in 1860, the Chauncey family of Philadelphia, convinced by Lafayette land developer Henry L. Ellsworth to invest in adjacent acreage, platted a town they named for themselves, just east of Kingston. Kingston and Chauncey merged in 1866 under the Chauncey name and received their town charter in 1867.
On May 21, 1888, 152 voters petitioned to rename the town West Lafayette. Chauncey had no post office, and mail addressed there wasn't being delivered. Purdue's mailing address actually remained "Lafayette, Indiana" well into the twentieth century even with the university city’s name change.
Sources: Tippecanoe County Historical Association, History of Tippecanoe County; Tippecanoe County Historical Association, "Lafayette's First Bridge over the Wabash"; New Chauncey Neighborhood Association; Visit Lafayette-West Lafayette.
Creasy Lane Getting a Full Resurfacing This Year
City Council approved a $1.35 million appropriation Monday night that will pay for a near-complete resurfacing of Creasy Lane.
The money comes from the Motor Vehicle Highway Restricted Fund. Of that total, $963,385 will serve as Lafayette's local match for a Community Crossings grant from the state. The combined funding will cover Creasy Lane from Greenbush Street south to US-52.
City Controller Jeremy Diehl told council the fund has a cash balance over $2 million and no other significant obligations, so the appropriation does not affect other road projects.
Community Crossings is a state matching grant program administered by INDOT that helps cities and towns fund local road and bridge projects. Lafayette has used it for several major resurfacings in recent years.
Baseball
Indiana at Purdue
5/8 | 6 pm first pitch (Game is on B1G+)
Indiana at Purdue
5/9 | 2 pm first pitch (Game is on B1G+)
Indiana at Purdue
5/10 | 1 pm first pitch (Game is on B1G+)
Purdue at Ball State
5/12 | 3 pm first pitch (Game is on ESPN+)
Friday
64🌡️46 | 🌦️ | 80% | 💨6 mph
Saturday
75🌡️49 | 🌤️ | 10% | 💨9 mph
Sunday
63🌡️51 | 🌦️ | 30% | 💨4 mph
Monday
63🌡️42 | 🌤️ | 0% | 💨4 mph
Tuesday
67🌡️44 | ⛈️ | 40% | 💨8 mph
If you have an event coming up and you’d like it listed here, fill out this form
Friday 5/8
Heirloom Plant Sale
The Farm at Prophetstown | 10 am
Native Plant Sale Day 1
Prophetstown State Park | 9 am to 3 pm
Wine After Work
Wildcat Creek Winery | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Sheeza (Rock & Soul)
Digby’s Pub & Patio | 8:30 pm to 11:30 pm
Saturday 5/9
Mosey Down Main Street
Main Street | 6 pm to 11 pm
Super Saturday Sale at The Book Cellar
West Lafayette Public Library | 10 am to 4 pm
Contra Dance
333 Meridian St West Lafayette | 5:30 pm to 8 pm
Beats, Bites & Bottles
Wildcat Creek Winery | 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Sunday 5/10
Mother’s Day Appreciation
Mamá Ines Mexican Bakery | 11 am to 3 pm
Mother’s Day Tea Party
The Farm at Prophetstown | 2:30 pm
The Slackers (Ska/Rocksteady)
Thomas Duncan Hall (Get Tickets) | 6 pm to 10:30 pm
Monday 5/11
Little Ones Group Music Class
Just Littles Play Café | 10 am
Thank you for taking the time to read this far! If you have any suggestions for stories, restaurants to try, events going on, or cool things people are doing in the community, send them over!
Enjoy the weekend,
Blake | Publisher, Lafayette Lookout