Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 300, Decatur, Adams County, 22 December 1947 — Page 28

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Santa Claus, Indiana, This mecca I for all believers in the cheery spirit i of Santa Claus now has begun to i receive its annual Yuletide deluge 1 of thousands of visitors and mil- ■; lions of pieces of mail. Receiving over 3,500,000 pieces of mail last year for re-mailing with the jovial Santa Claus postmark, the postmaster of this tiny village i ( of 50 souls estimates that this j year's total will exceed 5,000,000 j cards, letters and packages. Responsible for the evergrowing j number of visitors and tourists to ( the little town are the many new , and exciting attractions in the Santa Claus Land Park in which ( the postoffice is located. ( Topping the list of things to see , and do in Santa Claus Land this i year are the newly completed Na- .

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tivity Scene, the House of Dolls, toy museum of foreign and antique toys, and numerous other attraction.s Thousands of children and adults who had seen the park before are now flocking back to see these many new additions. The Nativity Scene of Christ’s birth in a manger—an expertly detailed and artistically prepared diorama —is approximately 18 feet long and 5 feet high. Everything is in exact proportion with realistically molded and colored figures 18 inches high. It is believed to be one of the finest of its kind in existence. The little town was not always called Santa Claus. It started life out in 1846 as Santa Fee and was even so recorded on Spencer county records until just recently. But about 1855 the residents applied

IJ for a postoffice and were turned down. There already was a town by that name in Indiana, the Postoffice Department explained. As it

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was then Christmas Eve when the townspeople heard the news, according to the legend, the name Santa Claus was adopted.

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