The Alexandria Monroe Chamber of Commerce has transformed over the past year to one of the fastest growing Chambers in the area. We have grown by 75% since August 2012. We have updated our website and created a large following on our new facebook page. We have established more opportunities for our members to promote and succeed with their businesses. We have initiated more events and activities for our Chamber members to participate in. We have created “more bang for your bucks”.
We now have an every other month Chamber breakfast meeting called the Breakfast Club. We have annual golf and bowling tournaments. The Chamber is the sponsor of CARE Day, Safe Halloween, and Christmas Parade. In 2013, the Chamber will be one of the major sponsors of the Alexandria Grand Prix. With the support of Anderson University, Harrison College, Indiana Small Business Development Center, Ball State Athletics, and Hoosier Park we will be offering many after hour events. These get-togethers will be: informative seminars about how to grow your small business, information sessions on how to further your education or your career status, or just fun activities to network with fellow businesses.
More than a century and a half ago the first settlers came to Alexandria, building a town on the promise of the Indiana central Canal. The canal was to be built from Fort Wayne to Southern Indiana. Within four years however, the railroads that stretched west had made the canal proposition obsolete, and Alexandria was left to make its way on its own merits.
