Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 13, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1926 — Page 16

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SEE STATE FIRST, GOOD MOTTO FOR BEAUTYSEEKEBS Conservation Department Lists 99 Places of Interest. Indiana occupies au important riche in the history of the nation .*nd has been proud enough of her )uidmarks to preserve them for future generations. She has been blessed with a generous assortment of natural beauty spots and is fortunate, today, in having well-im-prove roads leading to practically every point the pleasure seeker might desire to go. Some of these more important points of interest have been taken over by the State and are uflder the care arid protection of the Indiana conservation department. Others have passed to the ownership of the counties in which they are situated, resulting in a friendly spirit of competition among the various localities boasting these prized possessions. List Prepared In order that Hoosiers may better acquaint themselves with their own State and its wonders, the conservation department has prepared a list of ninety-nine of the most important attractions, both natural and historical, and is prepared to distribute the lists among citizens desiring them. The points of interest are numbered in consecutive order and accompany a map similarly numbered. One of the map3 may be procured by writing to the department at the Statehouse and enclosing a large, stamped, self-addressed envelope. The ninety-nine points, as selected by the department, follow: 1. Turkey Run State Park. Parke County. 2. McCormick’s Creek Canyon State Park. Owen County. 3. Clifty Falls State Park. Jefferson County. 4. Muscatatuck Mills State Park. Jennings County. 5. Dunes State Park. The Dunes comprise the most senic ar.d beautiful stretch of landscape in the State. The area includes about 25 miles of shore line long Lake Michigan and stretches for approximately a mile and a half inland. Porter County. 6. Clark County State Forests. 7. Kankakee Marshes. This district, up and down the Kankakee, once comprised the finest hunting and fishing district in the State. Unfortunately it has now been dredged and a great part of the former paradise has been given over to farm lands of questionable fertility; 2,100 acres of the original tract still in their wild state are now held by the State. 8. Valparaiso University. Valparaiso. Porter County. Indian War Boulder 9. La Porte, Door Village—Boulder marks site o* block house built in 1832, Black Hawk War. La Porte County. 10. Bass Lake State Fish Hatchery. Starke 'County. Sight ponds, propagating smallmouth bass. Distributed 60,982 fish in 1923. 11. Lake Maxinkuckee and Culver Military Academy. Marshall County. Probably the most popular lake in the State, with a large summer colony. Culver Military Academy, which is one of the finest, is situated on its shores. 12. Last Indiana Reservation in State. Pottawatomie Monument at Twin Lakes, five miles south of Plymouth—moved to Mississippi in 1838. Marshall County. 13. Red Cedar Tree on St. Joseph

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It. Mennonite College, Goshen. Kikhart County. 17. Lake Wawasee. Kosciusko County. Formerly known as Big Turkey Lake. This is the largest lake wholly within the State, having an area of

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approximately 3,600 acres. It is one of the most popular waters for summer -vacationists and has a large population during the season. 18. Wawasee State Hatchery. Kosciusko County. A fifteen-pound

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hatchery propagating blue gtUa and black bass. Distributed 27,700 fish in 1920. 19. Lakes of Kosciusko County. 20. Lakes of Whitley County. 21. Trt-Lakes State Hatchery. Whitley County. A six-pound plant. Propagates yellow perch and walleyes. They distributed 1.342,575 fish in 1923. 22. Lakes of Noble County. Military School 23. Howe Military Academy School for Boys. Lagrange County. 24. Lakes of Steuben County. 25. Ft. Wayne, the site of the first French fort in Indiana, 1686. British fort, 1760 1763. Battlefield ,of 1790. Ft. Way De. 1794. Monuments to Wayne, Lawton and Johnny Appleseed. Historical Muesum. Allen County. 26. Dunkard Cclege, North Manchester. Wabash County. 27. Lakes of Fulton County. 28. Museum —Peru. Courthouse. Miami County. 29. Fitch's Glen—A scenic spot near Logansport, Cass County. 30. Tippecanoe Battleground. Tippecanoe County, at Battleground. 31 Purdue University. West lAfayette. Tippecanoe County. 32. Ft. Ouiatenon —On Wabash below Lafayette, Tippecanoe County. First Trading Post 33. Trading Post Monument, seven miles west of Granville Rd., from Lafayette, jmarks one of the first trading posts in the State. Tippecanoe County. 34. Oxford, Benton County. Oak tree under which first commissioner’s court was held July 28, 1840. Home of Alice and Phoebe Carey, Roswell G. Smith and others. On (Turr to Page 12)