The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-12-26
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"REMINISCENCES.
NUMBER SEVEN.

northwest. The typo made an error of
six miles
Our readers will recollect that Center
township, as originally laid cut, was the
center one-third Of the county, east and
west. In the year 1887 the commissioners
struck OF six miles from the west end and
named 1t Menomonee township, in memo
ry OF an indian chief who resided in said
territory. At the next session Of the Gem
missioners the name was changed to that
OF Lake, which, by The way, was very ap-
propriate, seeing there were four or five
lakes in the township. to-wit: Twin lakes.
Dickson S lake, Barber lake and Pretty
lake, The latter Of which IS a beautiful
sheet of Clear water and tcelninc with the
. fnny tribe II has no natural outlet
he ice the! j put Up in Plymouth is IA
ken from that lake 1t is also resort for
pic-nics and pleasure parties in thc suu-
mer season.
The Twin lakes are a great place or re-
sort for fishermen IN he spring season Of
the year. fish are caught there by the
barrel, mostly bass, lake perch, and such
like. We recollcct Of beng at the Twin
lakes once in 1886, where the plymouth
and Winnemsc state road crosses tie out
let between the lakes. Some three or four
indians came to the lake on horseback
One of them was leading pony which
was not yet broke to the saddle. They
rode into the lake as FAR IS !hey could
without swimming their horses An indian
took charge Of the poney they wanted TO
g" break in. . After getting aslride of It
there was some lofty ilouudering. some
times both would be under the water, 1t
other times the indian would be upper
most, and rice rerso, 10 the great amuse-
meut CT the lockers on. Finally the pony
was so much worried that it became quiet
and Tie indian could mount and ,!ismount
at pleasure. On inquiring Of those who
could talk very little Of the English lar
suage, we learned that they usually broke
their Young horses in this way.
The following named persons settled III
that township in 1886, some Of them i.
early as 1880, to-wit: 10! Abrams, j osepl
Evans, Timothy Barber, Major futile
Esam Campbell Samuel J. Davidson
Hugh Mcdonald, james Nash, Jacol
Case, Ithomer Harry, Vim. Mason. Man
thus and Sylyerius Root, Joseph Waters
VIM. Bailey. Azari;:i' Aascly, VIM bish
op, -- Taylor, Thomas Cornwall, Val
eutIne Shooter, John Rhineliart, Massen;
and c. 4. Cone and Jacob Shinnnharser
Many OF the above named persons are gon,
: TO the . Enemies land, " two only renal,
: here namely, Nr. Rhinchart. who is Dor
dering Oh to his four score and ten years
and Mr. Evans.
= The citizens finally became iissatis.ie,
with the name Of Lake and petlioned tn
: commissioners to change the name to tina
: of West, which was done. It contain
lorty-three square miles, a great portion .
which is whte-oal, ana hickory barrens
r and excellent wheat land. There are tw
or three sections Of thick timbcrca land i
the east end OF Twin lal cs The west on'
OF the township Is mostly marsh aud oal
openings, and very spalael y sell led. III
> east four miles of the township is very We
improved, under good state Of eultiya
e lion and produces abundautly. The farm
e ers are generally in easy circumstances.
{ ~ an early day company in Mishawa
II built what they called the Plymouth
iron works" On the outlet of the Twil
f lakes 1t worked for several years unit
J. the ore in the vicinity became scarce. 4
If excellent quality OF iron was made there
We should judge that it was not lacra
g tive business Quite little village sprun
&c no there after The forge got into operation
was named Sligo" \ grocery store
? wa son shop, blacksmith shop, &c, 81, wa
d located there. After the owners qui
J. running the forge, they sold the propert
to VIM. Zehuer, who has built fine flour
N ing mill. which is great public conver
i" fence and remuneratiye to the proprietor
Timothy Barber, at a very early da
= built grst and saw mill on one of the ii
:, let, to Barber's lake. After the death {
&C Mr.. Barber it fell into the hands Of job
Zehner. Some years otter it burnt dow
J.. and has not beea rebuilt. The assessor
that towr ship reports ll2 dogs and IL
a. polls. Value of personal property $50 ,0Ss
~ value of real estate S29l ,6S5. Total val
ne OF taxables 1881 SO,
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