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Chief Menominee Memorial Site is a historic site located in West Township, Marshall County, Indiana. The memorial site was dedicated in 1909, and includes a triangular park, remains of the replica chapel foundation stones, and the Chief Menominee Monument. The log replica chapel was destroyed by fire in 1920.
The Menominee Indian Reservation technically consists of both a 360.8 sq mi (934.5 km 2) Indian reservation in Menominee County, Wisconsin and an adjacent 1.96 sq mi (5.08 km 2) plot of off-reservation trust land encompassing Middle Village in the town of Red Springs, in Shawano County, Wisconsin. These areas are governed as a single unit for ...
By August 5, 1838, the deadline for removal from Indiana, most of the Potawatomi had already left, but Chief Menominee and his band at Twin Lakes refused. [ 21 ] [ 22 ] The following day, August 6, 1838, Col. Pepper called a council at Menominee's village at Twin Lakes, where he explained that the Potawatomi had ceded land in Indiana under the ...
A goal of having at least one state park within an hour's drive for every Hoosier was met when Prophetstown State Park was established in 2004. [6] It is possible to view the Milky Way at 3 of the 24 Indiana State Parks, [7] which are Shades State Park, Tippecanoe River State Park, and Turkey Run State Park.
The Chief Oshkosh monument is seen Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, at Menominee Park in Oshkosh. Plans to add plaques with more information on the chief and Menominee tribe have been in the works since ...
Menominee Park is also home to the Menominee Park Zoo, which was founded in 1945. A lithographic postcard dating back to the 1910s depicts Oshkosh's tree-covered Monkey Island.
Menominee (c. 1791 – April 15, 1841) was a Potawatomi chief and religious leader whose village on reservation lands at Twin Lakes, 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Plymouth in present-day Marshall County, Indiana, became the gathering place for the Potawatomi who refused to remove from their Indiana reservation lands in 1838. Their primary ...
The park comprises a 145.35-acre (58.82 ha) tract along 1.5 miles (2.4 km) of the Menominee River south of the City of Norway and the 2,208.83-acre (893.88 ha) Quiver Falls Tract along eight miles (13 km) of the river farther downstream. In 2016, an additional 525-acre (212 ha) of Escanaba State Forest land was transferred from the Forestry ...