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Pokagon State Park was created in 1925. Through fundraising efforts, the citizens of the county purchased the first 580 acres (2.3 km 2 ), much of it farmland, on the shores of Lake James. The county citizens donated this land to the Department of Conservation, State of Indiana, which added two additional parcels the following year, bringing ...
Pokagon State Park, originally named Lake James State Park when it was proposed in 1925, is located by the lake. [65] As of 2003, the park's forest consists of sugar and red maple trees, and has an average density of 155 trees per 1 acre (0.40 ha). The park has its own swamps and marshes - many are spring-fed. [66]
2006-08-20 18:17 MrHarman 1673×887 (208523 bytes) Potawatomi Inn at Pokagon State Park, in Indiana, looking north from Lake James. This photo only shows the original Inn. A new section, completed in the 1990s, can be glimpsed to the right (the east).
The interpretive center located in Pokagon State Park, Angola, Indiana, contains animals and displays about Pokagon and its surrounding areas. It is staffed by full-time and part-time naturalists. It is staffed by full-time and part-time naturalists.
Canadian child carrying his modern toboggan, December 2010. The Toboggan Party, Rideau Hall, illuminated composite photograph from Lady Dufferin's personal album. c. 1872–1875. Toboggan was originally an Algonquian term for a type of man-hauled cargo sledge made from bark, hardwood or whalebone, and deer or buffalo hide. [3]
SR 727 was first authorized in 1934 between Ashley and Pleasant Lake, along Steuben county road 400W and 500S. [3] [4] During 1935 the Indiana State Highway Commission wanted to improve SR 727 to hard type of driving surface, so in August 1935 the state accepted a bid for $16,246 equivalent to US$361,039.75 in 2023.
Pokagon may refer to either of two Potawatomi chiefs: Leopold Pokagon. Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, his band; Simon Pokagon, son of Leopold; There are also places named after them: Pokagon State Park, Steuben County, Indiana; Pokagon Township, Michigan, which includes the unincorporated community of Pokagon
In 1833, Pokagon negotiated an amendment to the 1833 Treaty of Chicago that allowed Pokagon's Band to remain on the land of their ancestors in Michigan. Nearly all the rest of the Potawatomi were to be moved west of the Mississippi River by the federal government following the Indian Removal Act of 1830 .