Side A
Camden
When the School Section, No. 16, was sold in 1832 Wm. Crooks, School Commissioner, reserved 16 acres and had a town site laid out by John Armstrong, Co. Surveyor. Col. Crooks (1787 - 1861) (War of 1812) kept the first . . . — — Map (db m42713) HM
In 1831 John Adams, Pennsylvania, built a saw mill here. In 1832 he entered land, in 1835-36 added a flouring mill. The present building was erected in 1845, restored by M. & Mrs. Claude Sheets in 1840. Boliver Village was platted around the mill in . . . — — Map (db m42694) HM
Organized June 25, 1864, the Lodge used the third floor of the Adams Mill as meeting place until autumn 1867, one of two known Masonic Lodges in Indiana to have started life in a flour mill. — — Map (db m42708) HM
When settlers first came to the County, children were taught in the home either by the parents or by a teacher hired by them. When there was a sufficient number of children in the community to justify a special building, a school district would . . . — — Map (db m217007) HM
Deer Creek High School. Deer Creek, Indiana. Washington Township of Carroll County, Indiana provided a quality education for the Deer Creek High School students and the North Central Elementary School students until closing in . . . — — Map (db m232366) HM
Fouts Soyland Farm. Influenced by experiments conducted in the 1890s by Purdue University and Indiana farmers like his father Solomon, Carroll County farmer Taylor Fouts was growing soybeans by 1904. With his brothers Noah and Finis, Fouts . . . — — Map (db m238477) HM
Marie Harris, Ellen Hostetler and Nancy Farrier, in memory of their parents John David and Ruth Marie Hilderandt Rhine
John and Ruth were both lifetime residents of Carroll County. They loved this part of Indiana and its history. In 1961 they . . . — — Map (db m163347) HM
Before You Is a Kaleidoscope of Flavors and Scents
Early settlers maintained an herb garden for four reasons:
Medicine, flavor for food, to provide scents for soap and for
fresh flowers as well as dried flowers for year-long . . . — — Map (db m163307) HM
The Bicentennial Garden was created in 2016 as a way for the Carroll
County Wabash & Erie Canal Association to celebrate the two
hundredth anniversary of the founding of the state of Indiana. With
a strong focus on blues and yellows, the . . . — — Map (db m163258) HM
Blacksmith Shop
A Blacksmith is one who works with iron at a furnace or forge where
"black” metal, heated and wrought is formed by beating and hammering
into a desired shape. A "whitesmith” worked with light metals. . . . — — Map (db m163333) HM
Broomcorn The Unique Plant
Broomcorn consists of a tall stately stalk (14-
18 feet) with a brush at the top and no ears.
Broomcorn is a member of the sorghum
family. The only part of the broomcorn that
is used is the brush. The process of . . . — — Map (db m163330) HM
Building A Home
Felhng 40 or so logs in the forest 15-26 inches in diameter for the sides and ends
the settler had only to add three or four shorter ones for the gables. Each end was
notched to both secure one log with the next and to . . . — — Map (db m163318) HM
A Canal Boat That Will Not Float?
The Playground Boat is most like the freight boat in the
above illustration. But this one has been changed to make it
fun for young people's imagination. It won't float in the Canal
but it will carry . . . — — Map (db m163259) HM
A Variety of Bridges Solve Many Problems
When the Wabash & Erie Canal cut through an Indiana
wilderness, its 40 feet wide channel of water created
challenges for those who wished to cross from one side to
the other. Pedestrians, . . . — — Map (db m163312) HM
Animals For Towing Canal Boats
During a time before motorized power, canal boats were
towed by horses or mules using heavy ropes of 100 feet or
more. On the Wabash & Erie Canal towpath, one animal or
more hitched in tandem, were led by a . . . — — Map (db m163350) HM
Creating a Life in the Wilderness
The Canal Village is comprised of buildings constructed
during the canal era. The water in back of you is the only
remaining accessible and recreational watered segment of
the Wabash & Erie Canal in . . . — — Map (db m163315) HM
90 lots platted in 1836 on both sides of Wabash - Erie Canal lock.
A Post office in 1838 - 39. The lock passed canal boats into the river on the pool of the Great Dam at Pittsburg five miles below. The mules carried the towline across the . . . — — Map (db m35413) HM
(Bronze Plaque - East Side):
Erected by Carroll County Indiana
In Memory of her Soldiers and Sailors
( Battles Listed on Upper Shaft ):
South Side -- Shiloh / Stone River
East Side -- Antietam / Gettysburg
North Side -- . . . — — Map (db m20798) WM
The Wabash & Erie Canal ran 468 miles from Toledo, Ohio to Evansville, Indiana, thus providing
access to New York and the East Coast via the Erie Canal and access to New Orleans and the Gulf of
Mexico via the Ohio and Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m163354) HM
Surveying: A Canal could not proceed along the upper Wabash until title to Miami and Potawatomi lands were transferred to the State. At the 1826 Treaty of Paradise
Springs the title was conveyed.
A corps of U. S. engineers was sent to Fort . . . — — Map (db m163309) HM
Named and platted in 1828 by Gen. Samuel Milroy, on 100 acres donated by Wm. Wilson for the seat of Carroll Co., named for Charles Carroll, last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. Henry Robinson was the first settler. . . . — — Map (db m1154) HM
The City Beautiful. Platted in 1828 by General Samuel Milroy
on land donated as the county seat by William Wilson, was an
industrial center during boom days of the Indiana Canal era. — — Map (db m161449) HM
Delphi City Hall
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
1865 — — Map (db m159804) HM
Delphi Courthouse Square Historic District
has been placed on the
National Register
of
Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
— — Map (db m161448) HM
How Would You Like To Sit On A Log Bench All Day?
The structure before you depicts a one room log school house of 1834. If you
were between the ages of 5 and 21 in rural Indiana in the 1830s you would have
attended a one room school very . . . — — Map (db m163328) HM
Kitchen Vegetable Garden
As European settlers arrived via the canal and by wagon this region was still
a wilderness in the 1830s. It was essential for their survival to bring seeds and
root cuttings to start their gardens in this forest . . . — — Map (db m163319) HM
The Wabash & Erie Canal conference
and interpretive center before you
combines historic facades from 1850s
downtown Delphi.
J. H. Stewart Drugs, Callahan Boots and Lathrope
Bakery fill the middle of the block in this 1850s . . . — — Map (db m163275) HM
Logs were part of the railroad trestle at Pittsburgh removed in the 1930s. They became a lakeside cottage on Freeman Lake known as "The Oaks". Logs were donated by the families of: Grantham, Israel and Goyer in 2019 — — Map (db m163338) HM
Lewis T. Jones, a blacksmith, and his
wife Manerva arrived in Carroll County
in 1850, They disembarked from the Wabash
& Erie Canal at Lockport and two years later
settled in Jefferson Township. One of their
eight children who came with them . . . — — Map (db m163260) HM
A New Spiritual Anchor at Canal Park
During the 1830s and 40s the Canal
transformed this region into a new cultural
and economic entity. This new era propelled
a now confident Delphi into the mid and late
19th century. It was now ready . . . — — Map (db m163314) HM
Weaving for the Canal Homestead
If the woodsman's axe and the long rifle were first
in importance to the pioneer, the spinning wheel
and the loom would rank second. In colonial
America many families wove cloth for clothing.
bedding, . . . — — Map (db m163324) HM
Carrollton on the Wabash
The Mentzer Tavern was built in 1840 at the north end of the Carrollton Towing Path Bridge that crossed the Wabash River. Erected by Ignatius Mentzer and George Friday, it opened as a cooper shop where barrels were made . . . — — Map (db m35438) HM
Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal Inc.
wishes to convey its appreciation for the
contribution and vision of our friend and
neighbor, Duke Energy Foundation. The
completion of the Mule Barn creates a
major historic site for Canal Park and . . . — — Map (db m163351) HM
Prairie plants like those featured here grew along the canal's towpath.
Look for the featured plants as you walk the towpath.
Can You Picture It?
The canal landscape has changed over time.
The Canal Width. The canal . . . — — Map (db m163261) HM
In October 1818, Purchasing Commissioners Lewis Cass, Benjamin Parke and Governor Johnathan Jennings acquired Indian claims on the land shown on this marker. About one-third of modern Indiana was involved in this transaction. — — Map (db m1152) HM
Surrounded By Immense Water Power
Delphi Paper Mill: George Robertson came from Scotland and established a
small paper mill here in 1845. It was powered by Canal water leased by the
State and parallel to the Wabash River. Enoch Rinehart . . . — — Map (db m163361) HM
Before Canals
The Wabash River illustrates how wilderness streams
served as highways beginning with the early French
explorers. Before the canal, rivers brought settlers
to new adventures and opportunities cutting through
unknown . . . — — Map (db m163279) HM
Samuel Milroy was born 1780 in Pennsylvania and is a "Child of the American Revolution". His father served as a Patriot in the war for Independence. In 1826, at the age of 46, Samuel moved to Carroll County and built a cabin, which was located on . . . — — Map (db m213303) HM
James H. Johnson was the first postmaster. I don't know if he was the only one, but I
believe he is the only one that is listed in Baker's Postal History of Indiana, 1976 (which
I've consulted at the Logansport Public Library and will look at . . . — — Map (db m163342) HM
Broomcorn consists of a tall stately stalk with a
brush at the top and no ears. Broomcorn is a
member of the sorghum family. The only part of
the broomcorn that is used is the brush. The process of tabling must be done because the broom-
corn . . . — — Map (db m163332) HM
Front
The Wabash & Erie Canal meets the Wabash River
Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal
Delphi, Indiana
See Photo #2:
1844 Timber Truss Bridge
The Wabash and Erie Canal authorities built the first bridge here in . . . — — Map (db m35445) HM
Cooper Shop: An Ancient Craft
The Cooper trade is an old one which came to America in
the 1600s and was a leader in developing and introducing
machines to replace the handmade methods. Before modern
plastics and cardboard materials were . . . — — Map (db m163326) HM
A New Home For The Depot
This restored train depot was
originally used by the Erie Line
in Leiters Ford, Indiana. Built
in the 1880s it symbolized a
new mode of competition for
canal travel. By the 1860s the
Canal fell into decline . . . — — Map (db m163345) HM
Guard Lock Gates Keep The Canal Safe
Before you is a replica of a guard lock constructed of large cut
limestone blocks. Guard locks often had only one set of gates as
opposed to lift locks which always had two sets of lock gates.
The . . . — — Map (db m163339) HM
A Small Construction Camp Shanty
This Canal worker's shanty is constructed of actual canal-era
timbers. Plain and simple, these temporary structures provided
for the workers - offering a place to sleep, argue, joke, gamble,
mediate and . . . — — Map (db m163337) HM
Papermaking developed in China around 100 AD. The process is based on using any plant
fiber or cellulose based material which has been processed (beaten) and mixed with water.
Cotton, hemp and linen are commonly used. The hand dipping process . . . — — Map (db m163316) HM
Along the Monon Tracks
This building originally served as the post
office in Sleeth, a rural community in
Carroll County about nine miles northwest
of Delphi. Sleeth was also known as
McCoy's Station on the Louisville, New
Albany, & . . . — — Map (db m163341) HM
Front
The Longest Canal in North America
Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal
Delphi, Indiana
The Wabash & Erie Canal extended 468 miles
from Toledo, Ohio to Evansville, Indiana
On March 2, 1827, a Congressional land grant made . . . — — Map (db m35449) HM
Here at Chief Winamac's old village, about 900 Potawatomi Indians camped on their forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. A child and a man died here during the encampment. They also left behind 24 too sick to continue. — — Map (db m35399) HM
Great Place to Visit
Enjoy yourself, take your time, bring your camera and
your fishing tackle, watch the clouds reflected on the
Wabash, experience the spirit of a nineteenth century
downtown square, walk a tree lined trail along the . . . — — Map (db m163356) HM
The Wabash & Erie Canal ran 468 miles from Toledo, Ohio to Evansville, Indiana, thus providing
access to New York and the East Coast via the Erie Canal and access to New Orleans and the Gulf of
Mexico via the Ohio and Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m163281) HM
Constructed 1832-1853, canal was
nation's longest, connecting Lake
Erie at Toledo with Ohio River at
Evansville. Key portion in Carroll
County included Deer Creek Lake
Dam, constructed 1838-1840 (1 mile
west). Various canal structures . . . — — Map (db m163353) HM
Constructed 1832-1853, canal was nation's longest, connecting Lake Erie at Toledo with Ohio River at Evansville. Key portion in Carroll County included Deer Creek Lake Dam, constructed 1838-1840 (1 mile west). Various canal structures are still in . . . — — Map (db m7540) HM
Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal, Inc.
Founded in 1974, in Delphi, Indiana, Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal, Inc. is dedicated to the
preservation of the stretch of the Wabash & Erie Canal located in Delphi, Indiana. Approximately . . . — — Map (db m163280) HM
Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal, Inc.
Founded in 1974, in Delphi, Indiana, Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal, Inc. is dedicated to the
preservation of the stretch of the Wabash & Erie Canal located in Delphi, Indiana. Approximately . . . — — Map (db m163355) HM
Great Place to Visit
Enjoy yourself, take your time, bring your camera and
your fishing tackle, watch the clouds reflected on the
Wabash, experience the spirit of a nineteenth century
downtown square, walk a tree lined trail along the . . . — — Map (db m163306) HM
Floras Station, on the Logansport, Crawfordsville and Southwestern Ry., was platted in 1872 for John Flora on land entered by him in 1829. Ino Post Office established 1872, changed to Flora in 1873. Also called Fountain City from flowing wells. . . . — — Map (db m42711) HM
( Memorial Tree Plaque )
This tree planted in memory of
Earl R. Albaugh
Joseph K. Clark
Roscoe C. Kirkpatrick
Clarence A. Wiles
“Who died in Service”
( World War II - Plaque )
For God and Country . . . — — Map (db m42749) WM
Built by the Wheelock Bridge Company of Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the year 1872. The bridge spans 128 feet over the Wildcat Creek and is supported by cast iron abutments. The abutment design was patented by Alpheus Wheelock in 1870. Replicated . . . — — Map (db m159988) HM
Platted by Merkle, Kendall & Co.
in 1838 for side-cut canal traffic
and cheap water-power from the
summit level dam, Pittsburg had
grain warehouses, flouring mills,
oil and saw mills, wool carding
and fulling, foundry and machine
shops, . . . — — Map (db m163204) HM
On September 11, 1838, about 850 Potawatomi Indians camped at Pleasant Run, having traveled 17 miles that day on the forced removal from Indiana to Kansas. — — Map (db m35400) HM
Pyrmont. John Wagner built a dam, race and saw mill about a mile South in 1833 and added a grist mill. He sold to John Fisher who sold to John Fetterhoff who built a large frame mill. Joel Wagoner, James Allen, Elias Morkert, J. J. Cripe, Wm. . . . — — Map (db m40455) HM
The sycamores here line the sides of the Michigan Road, which connected the Ohio River with Lake Michigan and further opened Indiana for white settlement and trade. Under intense military and economic pressure, Potawatomi leaders ceded the land for . . . — — Map (db m201388) HM
This row of sycamores sprouted from freshly cut logs used in the 1830's to corduroy a swampy section of the historic Michigan Road, the first state road in Indiana, running from Madison to Michigan City. — — Map (db m201386) HM
Union Pacific Railroad in Iowa Iowa crews began laying the first rails in 1854. A year later, the first locomotive was shipped across the Mississippi River by ferry. As with the Pacific line, the U.S. government was instrumental in . . . — — Map (db m186198) HM
At 1:40 am during a blizzard on January 18th, 1960, a World War II and Korean War marine veteran conducted a successful emergency landing of a DC-3 airplane a few yards north of this spot.
Shortly after an 8:30pm takeoff from St. Louis, MO, . . . — — Map (db m145234) HM
North Side
Milwaukee
Railroad Trestle
Manning, Iowa
Carroll County
[Train on trestle with WWII Soldier]
East Side
It is Easy to Take Liberty for Granted when You have never had it Taken from You.
[Eagle with a . . . — — Map (db m168847) WM
As you view this memorial, please note that the centerpiece shows personnel from different military branches and time periods of U.S. history. They are saluting the flag and those who lost their lives in the service of their country. At the same . . . — — Map (db m168853) WM
Grave of one of founders of Port
William (now Carrollton). Craig
laid off town on 613 acres which
he and James Hawkins owned; the
legislature incorporated it in
1794. He erected the first brick
house in county, 1792. Born in
Virginia, 1751, . . . — — Map (db m136133) HM
First settled 1792, incorporated as Port William 1794. Carroll County formed and name of town changed to Carrollton by the Kentucky Legislature, 1838, both honoring "Charles Carroll of Carrollton" of Maryland, bold signer of the Declaration of . . . — — Map (db m22149) HM
Marker Front:
Col. Percival Butler was appointed Ky.'s first adjutant gen. in Gov. Isaac Shelby's first term. Born in Penn., he was with Washington at Valley Forge and Lafayette at Yorktown. Immigrated to Jessamine Co., Ky., then moved to . . . — — Map (db m22097) HM
In 1754 James McBride canoed down the Ohio to the mouth of this river—now Kentucky. Here, as first explorer, he carved his initials and the date on a tree, a landmark for 30 years. Cited for part in defense of Bryan Station and Battle of Blue . . . — — Map (db m136145) HM
Born in Kentucky
April 19, 1791 - August 6, 1880
Transylvania University 1812
War of 1812 - Aide De Camp to Andrew Jackson
River Raisin - Pensacola - New Orleans
Mexican War - Major General of the Volunteers
Commanded 1st Volunteer . . . — — Map (db m22100) HM
Gen. William O. Butler, born Kentucky 1791, died here, 1880. War of 1812: River Raisin, Pensacola, and New Orleans. Gen. Andrew Jackson's staff 1816-17. Cited for heroism in Mexican War 1846-48. Practiced law here. Congressman 1839-43. Defeated as . . . — — Map (db m22131) HM
In memory of the men of Carroll County
who gave their lives serving their Country and
to all people who have served their Country.
+ + + KOREA + + +
Clyde M. Carter
William A. Day
Bobby R. Schirmer
George W. Willett . . . — — Map (db m22156) WM
The Old Kentucky River Toll Bridge first surveyed November 1897 and incorporated Nov. 1898. J.F. Jett, M.I. Barker, John J. Orr, and Martin L. Downs were instrumental in obtaining bridge. Contract was let to Indiana Bridge Company, July 1899; bridge . . . — — Map (db m136142) HM
Blockhouse built here, 1789, by
Gen. Charles Scott for protection
of settlers against Indians who
had massacred and driven off
earlier families. Scott came
from Va., 1785. He was in the
French and Indian Wars. Organized
first company south of . . . — — Map (db m77353) HM
Oldest brick house still standing in county, this was home of Richard and Sarah Masterson. Bricks laid in Flemish bond. House was center of town's activities. Mastersons, leading Methodists, opened their home for services before church erected in . . . — — Map (db m22128) HM
Center Panel:
The Price of Freedom
In honor and memory of all
Kentucky Veterans who served
our Country in times of Peace
and War, and to those who paid
the Supreme Sacrifice so that
we might enjoy freedom.
Their . . . — — Map (db m22321) HM
In Memory of the Men 0f CARROLL COUNTY
who gave their lives
Serving Their Country
+ + + World War I + + +
Otis Arvin Golden Bowie Frank L. Grimes Lester Williams Howard Guy Kirkland Walter Lewis Joseph B. Schirmer Chester . . . — — Map (db m22160) WM
Known as McCools Creek Settlement
it was laid off in 1809 on land
of Samuel Sanders, whose father
was here early as 1795. Thirteen
families came from Virginia, 1800.
Traditionally, on visit here about
1816, Henry Clay a member of . . . — — Map (db m136129) HM
Birthplace of poet, humorist,
columnist, raconteur, soldier.
He brought pleasure to thousands
with his dialectal stories and
banjo songs of the Blue Grass, and
his unique fictional character of
“Uncle Rambo.” For 20 years . . . — — Map (db m136132) HM
Home and family cemetery of Lewis
Sanders, 1781-1861. House built
1819, on land wife inherited from
Col. George Nicholas, key drafter
of Kentucky Constitution and the first
state Attorney General. Sanders
organized first Kentucky fair on . . . — — Map (db m136122) HM
Gen. George Rogers Clark used
route through here, circa 1780s,
called Clarks War Road,
Drennons Lick to Ohio River.
First called Rislerville, then
Liberty Station. In 1874, renamed
Sanders, for “Wash” Sanders, local
citizen . . . — — Map (db m136125) HM
Around 1750, the community of Eldersburg was founded by John Elder, who was given a land grant from the King of England for as much land as Elder could stake out in 24 hours. John Elder staked an 800-acre farm named Perseverance on a stagecoach . . . — — Map (db m134037) HM
This memorial honors all American veterans who, although separated by generations, shared a common, undeniable goal — — to valiantly protect our country's freedoms.
The memories of these American veterans will continue to live on . . . — — Map (db m133992) WM
This property
Wesley Chapel
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m144067) HM
An original one acre was deeded in 1827 by Allen and Susannah Baker. Civil War issues divided the congregation in 1856 and Pleasant Grove Church was founded. A log meeting house was replaced in 1867 by a stone structure built of local field stones . . . — — Map (db m36846) HM
Recognizing the sacrifices that Gold Star Mothers/Members make when their loved one dies in service to our nation
Honored and observed on the last Sunday in September
Some gave all — — Map (db m223996) WM
In memory and grateful appreciation of our heroes.
World War I
1917 - 1918
Abbott, Claude Austin
Abbott, Frank Roscoe
Adams, James Baird
Allender, Harry Carlton
Basler, William Alva
Baublitz, Leavin Austin
Belt, . . . — — Map (db m2988) WM
In memory and in honor of those who served
Korean War
Armacost, Calvin W.
Ashe, Steven L.
Barnes, Dale
Bittinger, Hallon
Boerner, Gerald J.
Brown, John D.
Caple, Grady H.
Chisholm, Colin J.
Clas, Earl W. . . . — — Map (db m224014) WM
Christopher Vaughn laid out the town of Hampstead in 1786 on land called Spring Garden, located along the Indian path from Patapsco (Baltimore) to Letorts Spring (Carlisle) which had been marked by Christopher Gist and made a public road in 1738. — — Map (db m2987) HM
In memory and in honor of those who served
World War I
Boog, Harry F.
Feustle, Adolph J.
Hare, William M.
Kemp, Walter L.
Korman, William C.
Martin, Richard
Parlette, Henry L.B.
Seipp, John H.
World War . . . — — Map (db m224062) WM
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