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Students in Professor Carrie Hagan's first-year Property class got to go on an underground urban adventure on November 7, about a mile away from IU McKinney.

In the photo at left, students meet with a tour guide on the plaza of the Indianapolis City Market, where the guide talks a bit about what they'll see before the group heads underground.

The students took part in a tour by Indiana Landmarks of the Indianapolis catacombs, a ruin underneath the City Market's Whistler Plaza. The catacombs were built as part of Tomlinson Hall, which was at the northeast corner of Delaware and Market streets. The hall was a meeting place for concerts, sporting events, and a variety of other gatherings. Construction on Tomlinson Hall was completed in 1886. It was destroyed by a fire in 1958 and had to be bulldozed. The catacombs are all that remain of the structure.

"I thought it was a great way for them to see our city," Professor Hagan said of the tour opportunity. "We learned about some of the legal history and tied in many of the property rights we've been discussing, such as licenses, gifts, estate transactions."

In the photo at right, from left, are Cayman Jarrell, Blair Hedges, Sarah Larimer, Janet Wheeler, Rebekah Mackey, tour guide Eric Manterfield, Sydney Jordan, Karri Meldrum, and Jamal Abdulrasheed.

In the photo at left, from left are Jay Wedda, Matthew Goldsmith, Raelynn Chastain, Preston Grimes, Abigail Smith, Mitchell Powers, Christa DeNeve, Gina Eisenhut, Veronica Weaver, Melissa Broaddus, Stephanie Truchman, Kelly McCarthy, Edmund Abel, Blake Walsh, Gene Lausch, and Clair Bailey.