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All the towns marked on this map served as winter quarters for at least one of the circuses listed for one year or more.
Indiana was ideal for many circuses to hold over for the winter. Indiana was a crossroads for the nation's railroads, and fairly easy to get to. Even though the South was warmer, the economy and conditions in the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s were too poor to support a large group of people and animals such as the circus. So many circuses came to Indiana!
During the winter a circus would repair and service its railroad cars and circus wagons; as well as repaint their wagons and banners. Circus performers would also train animals and try out new tricks and acts. Because a circus had to travel 10,000 to 15,000 miles each year, equipment maintenance was very important.
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List of Indiana towns and circuses:
- Ambia – Boughton Circus
- Anderson – Ketrow Circus
- Bloomington – Gentry Bros. Circus
- Brazil – Admira Circus
- Cambridge City – Buckskin Ben Stalker, Little Wild West Show
- Cicero – John A. Harrris Circus
- Connersville – Van Amburgh Circus, Bartine Circus, Howes Great London Circus
- Denver – Alderfer Show, Von Uhl Circus
- Evansville – Norris & Rowe Circus
- Ft. Wayne – Stewart Circus
- Frankfort – Ripple Bros. Circus, Ruffner Bros. Circus
- Greenfield – Harter Bros. Circus, Spar Bros. Circus
- Indianapolis – B. L. Wallace Show
- Ingalls – Lakins Circus
- Kokomo – Sipe, Dolman & Blake Circus, Sipes Educated Animal & Lilliputian Show
- La Cross – Barlow Circus
- Medora – Barnes & Bailey Modern Circus, Fisher Bros. Circus, Clarks & Walters Circus
- Muncie – Hall & Long Circus
- New Albany – Spalding & Rogers Floating Palace (docked here and burned in 1865)
- Noblesville – Antonio Bros. Smetville's Australian Circus, Baldwin Wall S. Co. Circus
- Peru – Wallace & Co. Circus, Great Wallace Circus, Cooke & Whitley Circus, Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, Robinson Famous Circus, John Robinson Circus, Paul & Dorthy Kelly's Circus Quarters Animal Zoo & Funpark, Sells-Floto Circus, Cole Bros. Circus, Jacobs Bros. Circus, Von Uhl Circus
- Rochester – Cole Bros. Circus, Robbins Bros. Circus
- South Milford – Barlow Circus
- Sullivan – Boys Bros. Circus
- Terre Haute – Wixom Circus
- Wabash – Gollmar Bros. Circus
- Washington – Coup & Shelby Circus
- West Baden – Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, Howes Great London Circus, John Robinson Circus
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