Kokomo

Kokomo is in Indiana, in the United States of America. Kokomo, named after a Miami chief, is known as "The City Of Firsts" due to innovations that occurred in tandem with the birth of the natural gas extraction industry there, especially as it pertained to automobile manufacturing. On a less dignified note, it also holds notoriety of hosting the largest Ku Klux Klan gathering in history which took place in 1923, and of early stigmatization surrounding HIV and AIDS with the emergence of Ryan White, an adolescent who was shunned from school after acquiring the virus through a hemophilia related-transfusion.

By car
US-31, US-35, SR-22, SR-26, SR-931 pass by Kokomo

By bike
The Indiana Heritage Trail passes through.

The Nickle Plate Trail goes north to the town of Peru.

See

 * Old Ben, in Highland Park. Old Ben is the world's largest preserved steer. Ben weighs 2.5 tons. At one time Old Ben was the world's largest living Steer before being injured falling on the ice.
 * Sycamore Stump, in Highland Park.
 * Vermont Covered Bridge, in Highland Park.
 * Vermont Covered Bridge, in Highland Park.

Go next

 * Mississinewa Lake, north of Kokomo
 * Kokomo Reservoir, east of Kokomo, near Greentown
 * Grissom Air Reserve Base and Museum, north of Kokomo
 * James Dean Museum and James Dean Festival, east of Kokomo in Fairmount. Festival is the last weekend in September.
 * Glass museum in Greentown east on SR-22/US 35