Bean Blossom Township, Monroe County, Indiana

Stinesville is a town in Bean Blossom Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 203 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Stinesville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Stinesville, Monroe County, Indiana. The district consists of five adjoining limestone commercial buildings in the central business district of Stinesville. The buildings were built between 1886 and 1894, and display elements of Renaissance Revival and Romanesque Revival style architecture. The main building is the two-story, Oolitic Lodge No. 682, I.O.O.F. built in 1894. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Matthews Stone Company Historic District is a national historic district located in Richland Township, Monroe County, Indiana. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, six contributing structures, and two contributing objects associated with the Matthews Brothers Stone Company limestone business, now operated as Bybee Stone Company, Inc. The district developed between about 1862 and 1962, and include notable examples of Second Empire and Tudor Revival style architecture. The contributing resources include the Matthews Mansion (aka Graymont, 1880), Company Store Building (c. 1874), Primary Mill Building (1908), Drafting Building (1920), Administration Building (c. 1931), and two pump houses (c. 1935, c. 1955).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

Ellettsville Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Ellettsville, Monroe County, Indiana. The district encompasses 50 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Ellettsville. It developed between about 1840 and 1953, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Early Commercial, Gothic Revival, and Bungalow/American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Robert Stimson House (c. 1840), May Presley House (C. 1850), Bradford House (c. 1878), George W. Fletcher House (c. 1875), Wickens House (1909), Capt. Gilbert Perry House (c. 1890), I.O.O.F. Building (c. 1885), Town Hall (1927), Masonic Building (1895), Knights of Pythias Building (c. 1895), First United Methodist Church (1900), and First Baptist Church (1909).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

The Stone Age Institute is an independent research center dedicated to the archaeological and paleontological study of human origins and technological development beginning with the earliest stone tools. The institute was founded by archaeologists Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick to provide a focal point for research on human origins where affiliated scientists could collaborate on research and to provide science education outreach on human origins and evolution. The Stone Age Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The institute publishes scholarly books and articles and offers post-doctoral positions for prospective scientists. The institute is housed in a 11,400-square-foot (1,060 m2) facility located on a 30-acre (120,000 m2) rural site outside Bloomington, Indiana. The building was designed by Mary Krupinski and Dawn Gray of Kirkwood Design Studio in Bloomington, Indiana, and was completed in 2003.The Stone Age Institute is an autonomous research facility, but it has strong ties with Indiana University, especially CRAFT (the Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology) and the Human Evolutionary Studies Program. Its co-founders, Toth and Schick, are faculty members at Indiana University.The facility includes a research library on early human prehistory and related science donated by the late J. Desmond Clark, professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Edgewood High School is located in Ellettsville, Indiana. The school is the sole high school in the Richland-Bean Blossom Community School Corporation and opened in 1965, shortly after the school district consolidated Ellettsville and Stinesville schools.

Ellettsville is a town in Richland Township, Monroe County, Indiana, United States. The population was 6,655 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Bloomington, Indiana Metropolitan Statistical Area.

WCLS (97.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Spencer, Indiana, United States, the station serves the Bloomington area with a classic hits format. The station is owned by Mid-America Radio of Indiana.The station is an affiliate of the IndyCar Radio Network, and carries the only live and legal broadcast of the Indianapolis 500.

Modesto is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

Richland Township is one of eleven townships in Monroe County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 15,098, and it contained 6,455 housing units.

West Brook Downs is an unincorporated community in Richland Township, Monroe County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

The Ennis Site is an important archaeological site in the countryside southwest of Indianapolis in the U.S. state of Indiana. Located near the town of Ellettsville in Monroe County, the site extends into a portion of Owen County, near the town of Spencer. As an important archaeological site, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in mid-1985; it was the first Monroe County archaeological site and the only Owen County archaeological site to receive this distinction.