Indiana State Police history

The site, at Marine and Winnebago Streets in south St Louis, was home to the old Federal Marine Hospital, which had been in Federal service since 1852.

The first train robbery in the United States was in Indiana in 1866 when the Reno Brothers stopped an Ohio and Mississippi train in Jackson County.

Play ball! The first game between two professional baseball teams was in Fort Wayne in 1871.

1882: Studebaker wagon factory began to attract foreign workers to South Bend.

And the first night baseball game under artificial lights took place in Fort Wayne in 1883.

1904: Studebaker began manufacturing electric automobiles and recruiting more foreign laborers to South Bend.

1906: United States Steel built large mills.

The first running of the Indianapolis 500 was in 1911 and won by Ray Harroun in 6 hours and 42 minutes with an average speed of 75 miles per hour.

An American democrat, was elected as the governor of Indianapolis in 1932.

In August 1943, in an effort to deal with the increasing problem of records storage and service, the War Department consolidated all of its former personnel folders and designated the Discontinued Projects Branch as the central repository for these records.

On September 1, 1945, it established the Records Administration Center, AGO at the St Louis Administration Center, on 4300 Goodfellow Boulevard in St Louis, MO. The facility, formerly an ordnance plant, also became home for the Army's civilian personnel and pay records.

In June of 1949, as part of a reorganization of the executive branch of government, the newly created General Services Administration (GSA) absorbed the National Archives.

By 1950, the CPRB of the Department of the Army (formerly the War Department), had achieved a good degree of consolidation of its former civilian employee records.

On October 29, 1951, the Army formally transferred its CPRB over to GSA, and the new St Louis Federal Records Center (FRC) officially came into being under the National Archives and Records Service, GSA.

However, space shortages continued; and, by 1952, the Army estimated that the DPRB was housing more than 17 million individual records of separated Army and Air Force personnel.

The Army's custodianship of the Air Force's military personnel records ended on July 1, 1956.

In 1958, Congress appropriated funds for the construction of a new center to replace the interim storage facilities at the Butler Brothers Building.

Construction was completed on a new two story facility in the spring of 1961, at a cost of $5.6 million.

In 1962, the Marine Corps transferred its separated military personnel records to the MPRC, and the Coast Guard followed suit two years later.

By 1966, both the St Louis Federal Records Center and the Military Personnel Records Center had achieved their respective goals of housing and servicing all former civilian and military personnel records.

While these administrative reorganizations were changing daily job functions and shaping the future of the NPRC; nothing had as much of an impact on the Agency's future as did the fire of 1973.

And our favorite: The Colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis in the dead of night in 1984 in a fleet of Mayflower moving trucks.

As part of the final phase of the project, the NPRC launched an electronic request tracking and reporting system in 2002 that dramatically improved customer service.

As part of the initial transfer, the records of 1.2 million veterans who served with the United States Navy and Marine Corps were opened to the public in July 2005.

In November 2007, NARA opened to the public 6.3 million OMPFs of former military personnel who served in the United States Army (including Army Air Corps and Army Air Forces), Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

In October 2008, NARA opened the first facility in Valmeyer, IL. Known as the NPRC Annex, this new Center is located in a retrofitted limestone cave.

Effective May 1, 2014, money orders will be the only acceptable form of payment for Limited Criminal History background reports.