Pioneers Simeon and Nancy Lake and their seven children settled in this area in the mid-1850s. They built a home, cleared the land, and began farming.
The settlement which gradually built up around the Lake farm became known as Lake Chapel . . . — — Map (db m272121) HM
Ward Prairie, named for an early pioneer family, was the site of Lake Chapel Methodist Church as early as the 1860s. The chapel, on land donated by another pioneer family, was used as a meeting place for other denominations, as well. Ward Prairie . . . — — Map (db m247223) HM
