Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Richmond, IN

Richmond is the county seat of Wayne County in eastern Indiana, sitting directly on the Ohio state line about 70 miles east of Indianapolis.

Richmond was first settled in 1806 by Quaker families from North Carolina along the East Fork of the Whitewater River, on land originally divided between the villages of Smithville and Coxborough.

The two villages merged and incorporated as the town of Richmond in 1818, and Richmond was incorporated as a city in 1840.

Richmond remains a center of Quaker life: Earlham College was founded there in 1847 as the Friends Boarding School, became a college in 1859, and the city also hosts the Earlham School of Religion and the headquarters of Friends United Meeting.

Richmond is called the 'cradle of recorded jazz' because Gennett Records, a division of the Starr Piano Company, made some of the earliest jazz recordings there, first recording artists such as Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington and Fats Waller.

Hoagy Carmichael recorded his classic song 'Stardust' for the first time at Gennett's Richmond studio.

Richmond's official nickname is the 'City of Roses' - the Hill rose-growing company once kept about 34 acres of greenhouses under glass there, and the city long celebrated an annual Rose Festival.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries Richmond was known as the 'lawnmower capital,' a center of lawnmower manufacturing with makers such as Davis, Motomower, Dille & McGuire and F&N, alongside the Gaar-Scott farm machinery works.

On June 6, 1894, Richmond native Charles Francis Jenkins projected a filmed motion picture before an audience in a downtown jewelry store for the first time; his Phantoscope projector was later sold to Thomas Edison, who marketed it as the Vitascope.

Richmond stands on the historic National Road, now U.S. Route 40, and one of the twelve Madonna of the Trail monuments to pioneer women was dedicated in its Glen Miller Park on October 28, 1928.