unincorporated community
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U.S. state
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of
Indiana
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History
Algiers was laid out in 1868. The community was named after
Algiers
Algiers ( ; ar, الجزائر, al-Jazāʾir; ber, Dzayer, script=Latn; french: Alger, ) is the capital and largest city of Algeria. The city's population at the 2008 Census was 2,988,145Census 14 April 2008: Office National des Statistiques ...
, the capital of Algeria. An old variant name of the community was called Delectible.
Homer E. Capehart
Homer Earl Capehart (June 6, 1897 – September 3, 1979) was an American businessman and politician from Indiana. After serving in the United States Army during World War I, he became involved in the manufacture of record players and other produc ...
, a
U.S. Senator
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The composition and powe ...
from Indiana and a pioneer in the
jukebox
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and
record player
A phonograph, in its later forms also called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910) or since the 1940s called a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogu ...
industry was born in Algiers in 1897, the son of a local
tenant farmer
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A post office called Algiers was established in 1885, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1955.
The town's name is part of the namesake of the
Algers, Winslow and Western Railway
The Algers, Winslow and Western Railway was a Class III short-line railroad that served the surface mining operations in Pike County, Indiana. It operated approximately 19 miles of track which reached from the coal mines west of Cato south ...