"When I left America at that time, I told a New York reporter that Indianapolis was the most beautiful city in America."
- Arthur Conan Doyle, absolutely correct.
Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, was wandering the streets of Indianapolis on this day in 1894.
He climbed to the top of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, gave a lecture on literary life, and had dinner with James Whitcomb Riley.