Indiana is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th state on December 11, 1816. It is bordered by Lake Michigan to the northwest, Michigan to the north, Ohio to the east, the Ohio River and Kentucky to the south and southeast, and the Wabash River and Illinois to the west. Indiana’s name means “Land of the Indians”, or simply “Indian Land”.

It also stems from Indiana’s territorial history. The first inhabitants in what is now Indiana were the Paleo-Indians, who arrived about 8000 BCE after the melting of the glaciers at the end of the Ice Age. Divided into small groups, the Paleo-Indians were nomads who hunted large game such as mastodons. They created stone tools made out of chert by chipping, knapping and flaking.

Elkhart, Indiana is known for the instrument manufacturing of musical instruments, such as, Buescher, Conn-Selmer, Pan-American, Emerson,  United Musical Instruments USA, Inc., Bach Vincent, Gemeinhardt Musical Instruments, LLC,  American Way Marketing, Babbitt JJ Co., Inc., Selmer Co., E.K. Blessing Co., Inc., Tom Green Flutes, Inc., Fox Products Corp, etc.

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