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| Indiana (LaPorte County), Michigan City — 46.1996.1 — Camp Anderson | | | One of three Civil War training camps in La Porte County. Site is one fourth mile west. Named for Colonel Edward Anderson. Used 1863-1864 to train Indiana Union volunteers of the 127th, 128th, and 129th regiments. — Map (db m969) | | Indiana (LaPorte County), Rolling Prairie — Fort Wayne-Fort Dearborn Trail | | | Sauk (sac) Indian Trail, a southwest fork of the Fort Wayne-Fort Dearborn Trail, was an early route travelled by Indians from Rock Island, Illinois to Detroit, Michigan to collect their annuities from the British for their services in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Pioneers used this as a cross country trading route.
— Map (db m970) | | Indiana (LaPorte County), Wanatah — President Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Train | | | On this spot where the Wanatah Station of the Monon Railroad once stood, the Lincoln funeral train made a brief stop on the morning of May 1, 1865 at approximately 7:40 a.m. The funeral train traveled 1,700 miles of its journey from Washington, DC to Springfield, Illinois, retracing the route taken by Abraham Lincoln on his original campaign trail to Washington. — Map (db m3810) |
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