TITLE: Dora Covered Bridge
ARTIST: H.G. Davisson
MEDIUM/SIZE: Oil painting on canvas stretched over masonite (painting on back) 15 3/4 x 20
DATE CREATED:
LOCATION: Funderburg Library; Art and Music Room
http://www.manchester.edu/academics/departments/art/collection/browse/pages/Davisson05_jpg.htm
Pictures taken by Peggy Bever during the construction of the Salamonie Reservoir
For pictures and the source of this information, see Terry Pepper’s research here: http://www.terrypepper.com/w&e/lagro.htm
Lagro took its name from the Miami Indian Chief Le Gros. In 1828, a two room brick house was constructed for him at this site. He occupied the home until his death in 1831.
Miami Erie & Wabash Canal Country. Harry G. Black. 1991. page 49.
On the site of this old Indian town, Gen. Tipton had laid out a town which he called La Gro. But at what time this town was laid out I have never been able to ascertain. The original plat, however was recorded in Book A, page 55, of the records of Huntington county, but at what date the record fails to state, though the instrument recorded this bears the date May 18, 1835, and the one on the page following, June 10, 1835, so that we can approach the date of recording the Plat. The first lots sold in the town, numbered 174, 175 and 176, to Jacob Chappel, the deed for which was acknowledged September 18, 1834, so that we can conclude the town was laid out at least as early as September, 1834.
From the Illustrated historical atlas of the State of Indiana. Published by Baskin, Forster & Co. Lakeside Building Chicago, Ills. 1876. Engraved & Printed by Chas. Shober & Co. Props. of Chicago Lithographing Co.
EARLY DAYS OF LAGRO BY DR. THOMAS
COMPILED BY RON WOODWARD
The following article of early days written by Dr. Thomas in the Huntington Press will
prove of interest to our readers:
The writer’s mother has in her possession a copy of the “Lagro Express”-”The Pony
Express” as it was known by those whose memory carries them back to an earlier day in
the history of this quaint old village on the Wabash-at one time the metropolis of northern
Indiana.
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