and also attended Wesley Chapel on the Circle. The Fletcher Place United Methodist Church was built on the site his house. Fletcher helped acquire property to establish Crown Hill Cemetery, a new burial ground at Indianapolis, organized the nonprofit corporation to operate it, and was later buried there. Indiana history Fletcher had a longtime interest in history. A member of the New England Historical and Genealogical Society, he became one of the original members of the Indiana Historical Society (IHS), founded in 1830. Fletcher's diary, donated to the IHS by his family in the 1920s, is in the IHS collections and provides “a powerful contribution” to understanding life in “the early nineteenth-century Midwest”. Death and legacy Fletcher died on May 26, 1866, after a brief illness and complications from injuries he suffered when he had been thrown from his horse two months earlier. Fletcher was buried in Indianapolis at Crown Hill Cemetery. Keziah Fletcher sold the Fletcher home on Pennsylvania Street after her husband's death, left Indianapolis, and returned to the East Coast, where she died in Boston on June 10, 1899. Several of the Fletcher children went on to have successful careers of their own, including Presbyterian missionary James Cooley Fletcher and Dr. William Baldwin Fletcher (who would also be elected to the state senate in 1882 and organized the local sanatorium). The Indiana Statehouse has a marble bust of Calvin Fletcher. His former farm, Wood Lawn, was developed after his death into housing for German and Irish immigrants and craftsman, especially during 1890-1920. His home site eventually became Fletcher Place United Methodist Church. The northern part of Fletcher Place was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Fletcher Place Historic District in 1982 and the southern part as Holy Rosary-Danish Church Historic District (also known as Fletcher Place II) in 1986. Fletcher Avenue remains a major road in Indianapolis, and has a marked exit from I-65, although construction of that interstate demolished hundreds of Fletcher Place homes and isolated the remainder from the Fountain Square and Bates–Hendricks neighborhoods. The Indiana Historical Society published The Diary of Calvin Fletcher in nine volumes between 1972 and 1983. Fletcher's entries, which date from 1817 until 1866, describe the details of daily life in Indianapolis, including a wide range of topics as well as his personal interests, acquaintances, and community activities. The diaries remain an "essential source for the