Did you know Indiana is home to America’s first theme park? Holiday World, then known as “Santa Claus Land,” opened in 1946..

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In 1935, a themed candy shop opened and a 22-foot Santa Claus statue erected and in 1946 Santa Claus Land, the nation's first theme park opened (now named Holiday World & Splashin' Safari).

The town in southern Indiana has been filling in as Santa's post office for more than a century, offering Yule postmarks and letters from St. Nick.

Santa Claus, Indiana, is home to a beloved tradition in which volunteers, or "elves," respond to thousands of Christmas letters sent to Santa each year from children from all over.

The Santa Claus Land of Lights is a 1.2 mile drive-through Christmas light show located next to Holiday World at Sun Outdoors Lake Rudolph in Santa Claus, Indiana.

Certain kitsch small towns in America get defined by their unique and sometimes eccentric sense of art and design ...

SANTA CLAUS, Ind. — Holiday World is saying goodbye to a man who has certainly left his mark on the iconic theme park. Rick Emmons, sign shop manager and the artist behind many of the iconic Holiday ...

He began working there when the park was still Santa Claus Land in 1972. Park leaders say Emmons has worked exactly two-thirds of the 78 years the park has been open.

The unveiling of Barrett’s Santa statue on Dec. 23, 1935. Submitted photo courtesy the Indiana Archives and Records Administration It’s not every day that Santa Claus winds up before a judge ...

It’s not every day that Santa Claus winds up before a judge, but that’s exactly where the big man found himself some nine decades ago — in a case that surely goes down in Indiana Supreme Court history ...