Author: Timothy Horton Ball

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780260378866

Excerpt from Lake County, Indiana, From 1834 to 1872 This line enters the county from the west in St. John's Township, in Section 36, a mile and a half north of the line due west from Crown Point, passing north of the head waters of West Creek in this section; it runs near the village of St. John's, and passes in a winding south easterly direction across Hanover Township to a point half a mile north of the head of Cedar Lake. From thence it winds along the ridges of that strip of woodland' in Centre Township, its main direction eastward, passes south of Fancher's Lake, between that and the Mill' Pond, comes out upon the prairie about one mile south of Crown Point and enters School Grove. It runs along a ridge in the grove south of the Sherman marsh, and passes in a southerly direction across the prairie to a point not far from Cassville. It then turns northward around' the head of that arm of Deep River, and bearing a little toward the east passes on north between Deep River and Eagle Creek, south of Deer Creek, and still bearing eastward leaves Lake county on a line almost due east from crown.point, passing north of that little lake which is the source of Eagle Creek. The continuation of this water Shed eastward is in a northerly direction, north of all tributaries of the Kankakee, and comes up to the por tage between this and the St. Joseph River. The dis tance between these two rivers at this point, across which portage La Salle and Hennepin carried their canoes in their famous exploring expedition of 1679. Is only five or six miles. The western continuation of this water shed is yet more singular. From that Section 36, crossing the Illinois line it runs southwest, passing west of Eagle Lake and around the head waters of Thorn Creek, having. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.