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Erskine Village is a shopping mall in South Bend, Indiana, United States. It opened in 2004 on the site of the former Scottsdale Mall, an enclosed shopping mall which featured L. S. Ayres, Ayr-Way (later Target), and Montgomery Ward. After experiencing a decline in tenancy throughout the late 1980s and into the 1990s, the property was torn down ...
Much of the river's course through West Virginia is designated as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, and the New River is one of the nation's American Heritage Rivers. In 1975, North Carolina designated a 26.5-mile (42.6 km) segment of the river as "New River State Scenic River", by including it in the state's Natural and Scenic ...
In 1765, the Eel River tribe lived in a village north of where the Eel entered the Wabash River. [1] The Kentucky militia attached and destroyed their village, so survivors founded a new village near Sugar Creek in what is now Boone County, Indiana. [1] The village was named Kawiakiungi or "Place of Thorns."
Apparently the river had again been left off a map so Jefferson named it the New River. The name Woods and New River were used interchangeably until about 1770, when the consensus name became what it is today, the New River. [3] Human activity along the New River at New River State Park has been traced back as far as 10,000 years ago.
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Erskine Station is an unincorporated community in Center Township, Vanderburgh County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [ 1 ] It is located outside the city limits of Evansville to the north.
The mine was established to develop the New River Coalfield in 1870 by John Nuttall, who correctly anticipated that the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad would be built through the New River Gorge. When the railroad arrived in 1873 Nuttall had built almost 100 houses, with 80 coke ovens, a variety of mine structures and a coal tipple on a railroad ...
Remains of the Ingles Bridge on the New River. In 1842, Thomas Ingles built a covered bridge across the New River at a cost of $17,000, but he continued to offer a ferry service until 1847. [13]: 76, 116 The bridge was completed in February, 1843 [8]: 4 and was 28 feet wide, 20 feet above the water, and 600 feet long.