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Lynn and Chuck Schafer put finishing touches on the rail
Justin Gillespie and Lou Studio work at stringing lights along the Kerr Lock
a view of the fence after completion
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Tags: Hathaway Preserve at Ross Run
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
Hathaway Preserve at Ross Run is a spectacular gorge with waterfalls, reef fossils, exposed bedrock and vertical cliffs as high as 75 feet. On this spectacular terrain are mature oaks, some with trunks over four feet in diameter, a diverse understory beneath the oaks and a spectacular display of spring wildflowers. Ross Run Gorge is an impressive natural feature that has uncommonly high value, geologically, ecologically, and aesthetically.
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Directions:
From Wabash, take US 24 east to 300E and turn right (south) toward Lagro. Travel through Lagro as 300E turns into SR 524. Follow SR 524 for 1.5 miles to Baumbauer Rd. and turn right (west). Preserve is on the right in 2.2 miles
Kokiwanee Nature Preserve
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
Kokiwanee features bluffs along the Salamonie River and streams tumbling down waterfalls to flow into the river. This is a place of many species of trees; wildflowers, including snow trillium; and many birds from wood ducks on the river to great blue herons wading where the water is shallow, and many woodland species.
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Directions:
From Wabash, take US 24 east to 300E and turn right (south) towards Lagro. Travel through Lagro as 300E turns into SR 524. When SR 524 curves to the east, continue east on Hanging Rock Rd., leaving SR 524. Travel 1.2 miles and turn right (south) on 500E. Continue on 500E for 1.5 miles as it turns into 50S. Preserve is on the right just before 600E.
Salamonie Reservoir (Salamonie Lake)
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
Salamonie River State Park
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
Hanging Rock
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
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The Legend of Hanging Rock
Silurian seas covered the area more than 400 million years ago and marine reefs were formed in the Midwest. Reef remnants, known as Klintar, can be seen as hills and mounds in the valley between Huntington County and Miami County. More spectacular are the exposed Silurian limestone formations of “Hanging Rock” near Lagro, and the “Big Four” cut at Wabash, both in Wabash County.
“Hanging Rock” is a huge out-cropping of limestone, one hundred feet in height, overhanging the Wabash River near the mouth of the Salamonie River near Lagro. The top is somewhat rounded by erosion, and part of one side has been torn away by the river. At the summit is a flat a space some twenty feet square which commands a broad outlook over the river and valley below. Many young people now climb the same pathway to the top which Miami Indian braves and maidens climbed many years before them.
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The “Hospital”
November 12th, 2009 View Comments
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The Hospital-Secret Cave
This story involves a cave located along the Wabash River near the town of Lagro. The “Hospital” is mentioned in a report by Major John Frances Hamtramck in 1790, ascertaining the distances and conditions of navigation of the Wabash from Vincennes to Ft. Wayne. Early voyageurs sometimes called a place of refuge or shelter a hospital. It has been said that the cave is the Hospital of Hamtramck’s report. A wounded Indian crawled near the cave, but due to the seriousness of his injuries, he became unconscious. An Indian maiden found him there and dragged him into the cave. She cared for him until he could care for himself and then she left. The wounded Indian had fallen deeply in love with the girl, and each day he ventured forth in search of food and the maiden. Sadly, though, he finally died, without having discovered the identity of the one who came to his aid in time of need.
Above information taken from: “Miami Indian Stories” by Chief Clarence Godfroy.
The Kerr Lock and the Wabash and Erie Canal
November 11th, 2009 View Comments
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.
History of St. Patrick’s Church
November 10th, 2009 View Comments
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“Jesuit Missionaries, on their way from Montreal, Canada, to post Vincennes, visited Lagro as early as 1800. The venerable missionary, Father Badin, stopped there, in 1833, on his way from Fort Wayne to Logansport. The construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal, in 1837, opened up a general traffic, and Lagro became the chief shipping center for wheat, corn and other crops. A number of families, of whom many were Irish Catholic, came from the east to make Lagro and its vicinity their home.