Robert Cline

Robert Cline is an historian for the International Circus Hall of Fame.

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For Some 60 Years, Peru, Indiana, Was America’s “Circus City”

October 25, 2023

Peru is known as the Circus Capital of the World for a big reason. It really was. Starting in 1884 when a Livery Stable owner named Ben Wallace took his first circus on the road, Peru began a circus winter quarters legacy that would last 60 years. Wallace had huge success with his circuses; within […]

Hagenbeck-Wallace main entrance to circus | Photo by M.D. McCarter, courtesy International Circus Hall of Fame. Used with permission.