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The first sawmill in Columbia Township was built at Alpine in 1814. [3] Alpine was laid out as a town in about 1832. [4] By 1885, Alpine contained a sawmill, a gristmill, and a station on the Whitewater Valley Railroad. [5] A post office opened in Alpine in 1868, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1966. [6]
It is located 30 miles (48 km) south of Fort Wayne, Indiana near Bluffton, Indiana. It was originally the Wells County State Forest and Game Preserve , formed in the early 1930s. In 1962. it became the Ouabache State Recreation Area , before finally achieving state park status in 1983.
Spring Mill State Park is a 1,358-acre (5 km 2) state park in the state of Indiana. The park is located to the south of Bloomington, about 3 miles (5 km) east of the city of Mitchell on Indiana Highway 60. It contains a settler's village, the Gus Grissom Memorial (with the accompanying Gemini 3 space capsule), a nature center, and campgrounds.
Owen–Putnam State Forest - 6,589 acres (47 km 2) Pike State Forest - 4,031.5 acres (9 km 2) Ravinia State Forest - 1,500 acres (38 km 2) Salamonie State Forest – 955.8 acres (11 km 2); Meigs County; Selmier State Forest – 350.4 acres (241 km 2); Scioto and Adams Counties; Starve Hollow Recreation Area - 278 acres (2.6 km 2)
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The main campground offers several waterfront campsites. The other campground is west of the lake and is designed for larger recreational vehicles. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has announced plans to drain the lake in the fall of 2008 in order to repair the dam and to eradicate gizzard shad which are detrimental to the fishery. [2]
Versailles State Park (pronounced locally as ver-SAYLES) is an Indiana state park, near the town of Versailles, Indiana in Ripley County. The land was given by the National Park Service for use as a state park to Indiana's Department of Conservation in 1943. [2] The park draws about 225,000 visitors annually. [1]
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