Friday, September 11, 2026, is the 25th anniversary of the attacks. You do not have to go to New York to pay your respects.
I was one year old. I do not remember any of it. My parents do, and what they remember is not knowing whether more was coming. Nobody keeps this list in one place, so I built it out of town pages, department posts, social feeds and local news.
Indiana's main memorial sits on the Downtown Canal in Indianapolis, next to Fire Station 13, with two 11,000-pound beams from the Twin Towers. Smaller memorials, most of them built around steel recovered from Ground Zero, are in Brownsburg, Bloomington, South Bend, Elkhart, Greenwood, Schererville, Lafayette, New Albany, and a handful of other towns. The Indiana War Memorials Foundation puts the Hoosier death toll at nine. Retired Maj. Gen. Timothy Winslow, executive director of the Indiana War Memorial Museum, said the same number on Aug. 19.
If you can only go to one place on Friday, go to the canal. If you live west of Indianapolis, Brownsburg has a confirmed 6 p.m. ceremony at its own beam. Michiana has steel in a county park, a hospital lobby, and in front of Elkhart's central fire station.
- The state memorial: 421 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis, free, dawn to dusk
- Confirmed Friday ceremonies: Brownsburg 4:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.; Columbus 9:30 a.m.; Noblesville 11 a.m.; South Bend march 9:11 a.m.; the Indianapolis firefighters' march from Mass Ave around 11 a.m.; Jeffersonville 7 p.m.; Crown Point stairs 5 p.m. CDT
- Most of the sites below are outdoor and free. The exception is the indoor museum on Meridian Street, which now charges admission
- Everything here was checked against an official page or dated reporting on Sept. 3. Where I could not confirm something, I say so
Confirmed ceremonies on Friday, Sept. 11
These are the 2026 listings I could pin to an official page or a dated news story. A lot of fire departments hold a quiet 8:46 a.m. moment every year without posting it. If your town usually does one, call the station Thursday.
Brownsburg. The town, the fire territory, and the police department invited the public to Arbuckle Commons, 7249 Arbuckle Commons. The Brownsburg Fire Territory and the high school history club read the names of the men, women and children killed in the attacks starting at 4:30 p.m. The remembrance ceremony is at 6 p.m. at the 9/11 Memorial. The posted program runs colors, the national anthem, a welcome and prayer, remarks from Fire Chief Larry Alcorn, a speech from the artifact recovery team, the laying of a wreath, a bell ceremony, Taps, Amazing Grace, and a closing prayer. Free.
Columbus. NABIP South Central Indiana holds a free memorial at 9:30 a.m. at the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum, 4742 Ray Boll Blvd. The Republic reported a keynote by retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark A. Pillar, patriotic music, and colors by the Bartholomew County Honor Guard. First responders, military, and the public are welcome.
Jeffersonville. The Vintage Fire Museum's annual outdoor service is at 7 p.m. at 706 Spring St. The museum lists a display about the attacks, an honor guard, a flag raised between two ladder trucks, a short address, a prayer, a period of silence, and a bell ceremony, with local INDAR chapters taking part. Free. Some seating; bring a chair.
Indianapolis, Local 416. Indianapolis Firefighters Local 416 posted a 25th-anniversary remembrance at its hall, 748 Massachusetts Ave. Social hour 8 to 9 a.m., bells at the times of the plane strikes, Mass after the 10:03 a.m. tone, then a march of about 1.7 miles stepping off around 11 a.m. to the memorial beside Station 13. The union asked for 343 or more people in the walk, matching the FDNY death toll, and listed Class A uniforms for firefighters and suits for retirees and civilians. A gathering follows at The Dug Out, 621 Virginia Ave., from 4 to 7 p.m.
Noblesville. The city and Hamilton County hold a joint ceremony at 11 a.m. at The Silos at the Hamilton County 4-H Fairgrounds, 2003 Pleasant St. Public invited. Remarks from Christine Altman, president of the Hamilton County Commissioners, and Mayor Chris Jensen, plus representatives from the county council and Noblesville Common Council. A joint honor guard from the sheriff's office, Noblesville police, and Noblesville fire presents colors. The city posted it on Instagram on Sept. 1.
South Bend. March to the Memorial is Friday. Gather at 8:30 a.m. at Martin's Super Market, 902 Erskine Plaza. Walk at 9:11 a.m. Finish about 6:45 p.m. at the 9/11 memorial in St. Patrick's County Park. Free. Up to 21 miles at about 3 mph, or join at any of seven fire-station rest stops. Register so they can stock food. Organizer: info@marchtothememorial.com or 574-213-5943.
Crown Point. Stair climb and 1-mile walk at the Lake County Fairgrounds grandstand, 889 S. Court St. Sign-in from 4:30. Fast division 5 to 6:15 p.m. CDT. National anthem 6:15. General climb 6:30 to 8:30, 1-mile walk 6:30 to 7. It is 17 trips up and down 120 stairs, which comes to the 1,980 steps in the towers; they hand you 17 pennies and you drop one a lap. Adults $30 to climb, $20 to walk, $20 for kids 3 to 12, free under 3, $30 all ages on event day. First responders take $9.11 off with code 911. Register on RunSignUp.
Notre Dame, Thursday night. The eighth annual ND 110 stair climb is Sept. 10, 5 to 9 p.m., at the Duncan Student Center, not the stadium. It benefits HEART 9/11. On Friday the tri-military ROTC units host a 9/11 memorial run 5K on campus starting at the ROTC building. Both are on Notre Dame's Office of Military and Veterans Affairs calendar, which is where to check the 5K start time.
Kokomo, Saturday. The 9/11 Memorial Tribute Challenge is Sept. 12, and every piece of it starts at 8:46 a.m.: a 5K that begins and ends at Kokomo Municipal Stadium, 440 S. Union St., a hero workout at CrossFit Kokomo, and a 110-floor stair climb at Planet Fitness. The Kokomo Fire Department runs it. $25 per event, benefiting the Marty Meyers, Carl Koontz and FOP scholarship funds.
Two other notes. On Aug. 19, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation's Steel Across America tour already brought a floor beam from the South Tower to the Indiana War Memorial. The foundation lists that beam at 21 feet and 16,900 pounds; WFYI, which covered the stop, described it as 20 feet and nearly 17,000. Either way, that stop is over. And WFYI reported that more than a third of Americans were born after 9/11 or were too young to remember it. I am one of them. A beam in Elkhart or a plaza in Brownsburg is how people like me get a place to stand.
The Indiana 9/11 Memorial on the Downtown Canal
421 W. Ohio St., Indianapolis. Next to Indianapolis Fire Station 13. Free. Dawn to dusk.
This is the one to start with. Retired Indianapolis firefighter and paramedic Greg Hess led the effort. In 2001 he was on Indiana Task Force 1, one of the first FEMA search-and-rescue teams to reach Ground Zero, and he spent eight days there. WFYI reported in August that six members of that task force have since died from illnesses they contracted working in the dust. Starting in 2010, Hess pushed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for artifacts out of Hangar 17 at JFK. He got two beams.
They arrived in April 2011 under an American flag. The last leg drew an escort the foundation has put at more than 11,000 motorcyclists stretched across 47 miles. The memorial opened on Sept. 11, 2011, ten years to the day. It was expanded for the 20th anniversary in 2021.
What you will see:
- Two 11,000-pound Twin Towers beams. You can walk between them.
- A life-size bronze bald eagle on one beam, wings out, facing east toward New York. Indianapolis firefighter and sculptor Ryan Feeney made it with Donald Mee. Hess has called the eagle his favorite piece of the site.
- A pair of six-foot black granite walls with remembrances of New York, Washington, and Shanksville, plus four smaller granite markers for the strike times: 8:46 a.m., 9:03 a.m., 9:37 a.m., 10:03 a.m.
- An 800-pound Pentagon stone. It is Indiana limestone, quarried near Bedford, that was part of the Pentagon wall damaged on 9/11. The foundation presents it as a tribute to officers such as Lt. Gen. Timothy J. Maude, the Indianapolis native who was the highest-ranking U.S. Army officer killed by foreign enemy action since World War II.
- A Survivor Tree sapling from the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York, grown from a tree found in the Ground Zero rubble.
- A granite military monument for the nine Hoosiers killed that day, and a "NEVER FORGET" wall in Indiana limestone overlooking the canal.
The Indy Arts Council's public-art listing adds four benches copied from the World Trade Center plaza, seven Indiana native flowering trees for the seven buildings of the original complex, and a redbud planted opposite the granite wall as a Freedom Tree. Bill Cotterman of Gibraltar Design laid out the plaza.
At last year's Patriot Day ceremony on this plaza, Hess talked about Ground Zero and the cancer he later faced from the work. DAR Caroline Scott Harrison Chapter members laid wreaths with soldiers from the U.S. Army Financial Management Command. Station 13 firefighters stood the line a few yards from their own house.
The same canal walk holds the Medal of Honor Memorial and the USS Indianapolis Memorial. The Indiana War Memorial Museum is a few blocks east, at 431 N. Meridian St. It is a separate indoor building, not the canal plaza, and official IWM pages do not list a public 9/11 gallery. Current state hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Adults 19 to 59 pay $10; seniors 60 and up and children 5 to 18 pay $5; children under 5, military and veterans are free. The outdoor canal memorial does not use those tickets.
If you have extra time downtown, the Moon Tree on the Statehouse lawn is a short walk from here, at 200 W. Washington St. Other Indiana markers and monuments are collected in our history and heritage coverage.
9/11 memorials in Indiana beyond Indianapolis
Between 2010 and 2016 the Port Authority gave away more than 2,600 pieces of the World Trade Center out of that JFK hangar, over 1,900 of them steel, to more than 1,500 organizations across all 50 states. A lot of Indiana fire stations have a small piece out front that never makes a tourism list. The sites below are the public memorials I could confirm with an address. If your hometown beam is missing, it is probably still there. Drive to the station.
Brownsburg
Arbuckle Commons, 7249 Arbuckle Commons, Brownsburg. The town's own page is the source of record.
A 1,500-pound World Trade Center beam, set the way it sat in the towers and pointed toward New York. Brownsburg firefighters learned they could request an artifact in 2009. After a court order out of the Southern District of New York gave the fire territory ownership, Jim Miller, Donnie Ross, Ryan Miller, and Alex Brand picked it up at JFK in 2010. The memorial was placed at Arbuckle Commons in 2019 and paid for with donations, not taxes. Friday's names and 6 p.m. ceremony are here.
Greenwood
Freedom Plaza at the Gardens at Olive Branch Cemetery, 1605 S. State Road 135, Greenwood.
This is the unusual one. G.H. Herrmann Funeral Homes built a plaza around a beam from World Trade Center 1, mounted on a base with bronze plaques that tell the story of the attacks. The beam sits in a five-sided planter built from limestone salvaged from the Pentagon, and the memorial holds soil from the Flight 93 crash field in Shanksville, Pa. The Daily Journal walked the site for the 20th anniversary in 2021. It is a working cemetery, so keep your voice down, but the plaza is meant for visitors. Owner Jeff Herrmann spent years chasing the beam and has said people should come touch it.
Castleton / Oaklawn
Oaklawn Memorial Gardens, 9700 Allisonville Road, Indianapolis.
An indoor atrium memorial dedicated on Sept. 11, 2021. It carries 2,977 medallions, one name each, with a blue Indiana-shaped medallion added for the nine Hoosiers. No World Trade Center steel. It is inside a funeral home and cemetery building, so go during business hours and keep it quiet.
Lebanon
Lebanon Fire Station 11, 975 Lasley Dr., Lebanon.
Lebanon Fire took a beam from Tower Two off the Port Authority's hands in May 2011. The city set it on a pedestal four feet off the ground at the main entrance of Station 11 and dedicated the monument in 2018. Anniversary ceremonies have been held there every year since. The state's Bicentennial Legacy listing calls the area ADA compliant with handicap parking.
Noblesville
Hamilton County Fallen Firefighters Memorial, 1 Hamilton County Square, Noblesville.
Dedicated at 7 p.m. on July 10, 2024, along the White River just west of the county judicial center. The Reporter says a World Trade Center girder sits beside a bronze statue of a grieving firefighter by Arizona sculptor Nicholas Wilson, honoring five Hamilton County firefighters: Bryon J. Galbreath, Cyrus "Skip" Clark, Raymond E. Moulder, Mark "Robo" Robinson, and Gary Southerland. The plaza is open whenever you want to stop. Friday's 11 a.m. ceremony is at The Silos at the 4-H Fairgrounds, 2003 Pleasant St., not at this memorial.
Bloomington
Ivy Tech Bloomington, Cook Pavilion, 200 Daniels Way.
A World Trade Center beam on a pentagon-shaped pad, with limestone tower mock-ups and a wall that reads "We Shall Never Forget 9/11." The late Capt. Robert "Bob" Loviscek of Bloomington Metropolitan Fire Fighters Union Local 586 worked two years to get the 12-foot, 1,800-pound I-beam and hauled it back from New York himself. It sat in storage until the campus plaza was dedicated on Sept. 11, 2016. The firefighters union and the city have used this site for the annual service. No 2026 time was posted as of Sept. 3. The memorial itself is outdoors and open.
South Bend
Freedom Memorial, St. Patrick's County Park, 50651 Laurel Road.
Sculptor Robert Kuntz's "Standing Tall" was dedicated in 2003 in memory of Katie McCloskey, the South Bend native and Adams High School and IU graduate who was six weeks into a job on the 97th floor of the North Tower. A four-foot, 400-pound section of Twin Towers steel sits at its base. This year's March to the Memorial ends here. Gather at 8:30 a.m. at Martin's Super Market, 902 Erskine Plaza, walk at 9:11 a.m., and finish around 6:45 p.m. Free. Seven fire-station rest stops along the way. The morning bell ringing that usually happens at this memorial has not been posted for 2026 yet.
Mishawaka
Saint Joseph Mishawaka Medical Center lobby, 5215 Holy Cross Parkway.
A piece of one of the towers sits in the lobby, and Saint Joseph Health System holds a Ringing of the Bell ceremony in front of it with the Mishawaka Honor Guard every September. This is a working medical center. Park in the visitor lots, keep it short, and do not treat the lobby like a tourist stop during shift change.
Elkhart
Elkhart Central Fire Station, 500 East St.
Dedicated on the 15th anniversary in 2016, and built entirely by Elkhart firefighters: a pentagon-shaped concrete base, two stainless steel towers, and a section of World Trade Center beam welded onto a pedestal, with a plaque for the Flight 93 field. Assistant Chief Steve Kamp told WSBT the department had had the steel for years, and veteran firefighter Jeff Josselyn did the original work to get it. Outdoor, at a fire station. Look, don't block a bay.
Warsaw
Central Park, in front of the Zimmer Biomet Center Lake Pavilion, 119 E. Canal St.
The Kosciusko 9-11 Committee has held a ceremony here since 2002, and the permanent memorial went up in 2009 on land the parks department donated. One side remembers 9/11. The other lists local emergency workers killed in the line of duty. I did not find World Trade Center steel listed for this monument. It is still where Kosciusko County gathers every Sept. 11. Last year's service was 6:30 p.m. Bring a chair. Confirm the 2026 time with the committee.
Lafayette
Lafayette Fire Station 5, 750 N. Creasy Lane.
"World Split Asunder," a sculpture by Indiana artist Mark Parmenter, was dedicated on Sept. 11, 2003. Visit Lafayette says it includes forms for the Twin Towers, the Pentagon, the Pennsylvania crash site, and the earth. It stood by the train station before it moved to the south lawn at Station 5, at Creasy and Union, and the firefighters' local treats those grounds as a memorial. Greater Lafayette has also held timed bell ceremonies on the John T. Myers Pedestrian Bridge and placed carnations on a Ground Zero beam brought out for the day. That bridge service is not a permanent installation. Station 5 is the one you can visit any afternoon.
Schererville
Outside the Schererville Police Department, 25 E. Joliet St., at Junction and Joliet.
A 14-foot, 1,931-pound bent World Trade Center beam, on the memorial just east of the police station. The town received it from the Port Authority in 2011, and crews craned it into place in September 2013; NWI Times and AP both covered the placement. Twin cylinders carrying 2,977 points of light, one for each life lost, were added in 2017. The department has used the site for anniversary services and stair climbs at Lake Central High School. Outdoor, next to a police station. Park legally and keep the lot clear.
Rensselaer
1060 W. Clark St., Rensselaer.
A 2016 outdoor memorial titled for the Pentagon, Flight 93, and the World Trade Center. The inscription remembers "all those who lose their lives and to the brave men and women who gave their lives to save so many others on September 11, 2001." I could not confirm from the plaque text that the object is World Trade Center steel.
New Albany
New Albany Fire Department Headquarters, 316 E. Spring St. (the corner of East Fourth and Spring).
In 2011 the department installed a roughly six-foot World Trade Center steel piece on a distressed concrete base, designed by John King of New Salisbury and Bruce Fox Inc. Aluminum plates carried images of the firefighters killed that day. The News and Tribune put the headquarters at 316 E. Spring St., which is still the listed address. The last detailed confirmation of the steel I could find is from 2011. Call the station before you make a special trip. This is a firehouse display, not a park.
The nine Hoosiers, and what people have been saying
WISH-TV's list from the 2021 rededication, the one that matches the memorial's count of nine:
In New York: Gary Bright of Muncie, Katie McCloskey of South Bend, Stacey Peak of Tell City, and Karen Juday of Elkhart. At the Pentagon: Lt. Gen. Timothy Maude of Indianapolis, Col. Canfield "Buddy" Boone of Milan, Maj. Stephen Long, Brenda Gibson, and Eddie Dillard, who was raised in Gary and was flying to California to see his son when Flight 77 hit the building.
One honest note on that list. The Pentagon Memorial's biography of Brenda C. Gibson, a 59-year-old Army budget analyst with more than thirty years in federal service, describes her as a native Washingtonian who spent her last 13 years in Fredericksburg, Va. Indiana counts her among the nine anyway. I have left the state's list as the state keeps it and flagged the difference rather than quietly reconciling it.
Not every Indiana-born victim is in that nine. Bloomington native Lauren Catuzzi Grandcolas was a passenger on Flight 93. Kathleen Ann Nicosia, an Indiana native who had lived in Massachusetts for 32 years, was a flight attendant on Flight 11. Those names show up in regional victim lists. The canal memorial's military stone is built around the nine the state has chosen to honor there.
On Aug. 19 at the War Memorial, Scott Nokes of Tunnel to Towers, a Marine Corps corporal, stood with the South Tower beam and told WFYI, "Out of the 2,977 lives that were lost, there's over 1,000 bodies that were never recovered specifically from Ground Zero in New York, you know. So, their souls are in that steel, and if you touch it, you feel it." Jack Kielty, who spent 40 years in the FDNY and now travels with the beam, told WRTV that people have been approaching it "almost like it's a holy relic."
That is the mood at the canal on a normal Tuesday, too. You will see firefighters on a break from Station 13. You will see people put a hand on the rust. You will see kids who have only seen the footage in a classroom.
If you go
Flags fly at half-staff on Patriot Day. Wear something you would wear to a funeral, or at least take the hat off at the beams. Do not climb the steel. Do not block a fire-station drive.
The canal plaza will be the busiest site on Friday because of the Local 416 march. If you want quiet, go at dusk on Thursday, or at sunrise Friday before the bells. Brownsburg's 6 p.m. service is the most complete civilian ceremony I found on an official calendar.
How I checked this
This is desk research, not shoe leather. I did not call anyone or attend anything. I went looking online because no single page collects these. Everything here was checked on Sept. 3, 2026.
Where the organizer posts its own page, that is what I used:
- Town of Brownsburg for the 4:30 p.m. names and the 6 p.m. program
- Local 416 for the bells, the Mass, the march and the 343 ask
- March to the Memorial for South Bend
- Vintage Fire Museum for Jeffersonville
- RunSignUp for Crown Point times and prices
- Notre Dame's Office of Military and Veterans Affairs for ND 110 and the ROTC 5K
- in.gov/iwm for museum hours and admission
Where no organizer page exists, I used dated news reporting and named the outlet. Memorial details came from the Indiana War Memorials Foundation, the Indy Arts Council, town and department pages, and the Pentagon Memorial biographies.
Two things I could not pin down and did not want to guess at: a 2026 service time for the Bloomington memorial, and a 2026 bell ringing at St. Patrick's County Park. Anything with a date attached will drift. Call ahead.
And if your town has a beam this list missed, or you spot something on this page that is wrong, email hello@getindiana.com and I will fix it and note the change. A lot of these sit outside fire stations and never show up in a search. That is not a slight. It is how these artifacts were meant to live: in the places that still run calls.
More Indiana history and heritage
- Indianapolis: A City of Monuments and Memorials, including the Medal of Honor and USS Indianapolis memorials on the same canal walk
- Indiana War Memorials: The Shrine Room, inside the building a few blocks east of the 9/11 plaza
- Whitewater Memorial State Park: Honoring Our Veterans
- The Moon Tree in Indianapolis: A Living Piece of Space History, a short walk from the canal
