Looking At History: Indiana's Hoosier National Forest Region, 1600 to 1950

Frontispiece: Arthur C. Nordhoff, Historical Pictures of Jasper, Indiana ([Jasper, Indiana], 1966), 34-35.

Figure 1: Photograph from William H. Mathers Museum, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; information from Monroe County Historical Museum.

Figure 2: Modified from U.S. Forest Service map of the Hoosier National Forest, 1986.

Figure 3: U.S. Forest Service, Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-34.

Figure 4: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 84.

Figure 5: Modified from Robert C. Kingsbury, An Atlas of Indiana (Bloomington, Indiana, 1970), 15.

Figure 6: Drawings modified from E. Lawrence Palmer, Palmer's Fieldbook of Mammals (New York, 1957); Ernest E. Booth, How to Know the Mammals (Dubuque, Iowa, 1972); Ivan T. Sanderson, How to Know the American Mammals (Boston, 1951).

Figure 7: Engraving originally published in Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 21, 1867.

Figure 8: Tippecanoe County Historical Collection; gift of Mrs. Cable G. Ball.

Figure 9: National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr.

Figure 10: New York Historical Society; Smithsonian Institution Photo No. 3439.

Figure 11: Tippecanoe County Historical Collection; gift of Mrs. Cable G. Ball.

Figure 12: Photograph and information from Minnetrista Cultural Foundation, Inc., Muncie, Indiana.

Figure 13: Tippecanoe County Historical Collection; gift of Mrs. Cable G. Ball.

Figure 14: Modified from map printed by the Department of Natural Resources, State of Indiana, Publication No. 122, 1933.

Figure 15: Modified from Kingsbury, Atlas of Indiana Geography, 7.

Figure 16: Modified from Kingsbury, Atlas of Indiana Geography, 8.

Figure 17: Illustration by Sue Chapman, from Davis and Davis, editors, John Carnes, River Trader; quotation from Pleasant, "Crawford County (Continued)," 251-252.

Figure 18: Portion of Stout's Mill day book from Donald and Ruth Mauger, Paoli, Indiana; other information from Orange County Historical Society, H. M. Barbee Daybook, 1845 (Paoli, Indiana, no date).

Figure 19: Photograph courtesy of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, and from U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-2/4-80.

Figure 20: Modified from Kingsbury, Atlas of Indiana Geography, 9.

Figure 21: Orange County Historical Society Museum.

Figure 22: Ellen Sieber, Bloomington, Indiana.

Figure 23: Figures compiled by Coy D. Robbins, Bloomington, Indiana, and the authors, from U.S. census reports.

Figure 24: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 109.

Figure 25: Modified from McAlester and McAlester, A Field Guide to American Houses, 83.

Figure 26: Modified from Glassie, Patterns in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States, Figure 26.

Figure 27: Marsh Davis, Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana.

Figure 28: Hohenberger Collection (original by Whitaker), Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; reprinted with the permission of the Indiana University Foundation.

Figure 29: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-92.

Figure 30: Modified from Olin D. Morrison, Indiana, "Hoosier State", Vol. IV, Pictorial History of Indiana (Athens, Ohio, 1963).

Figure 31: Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876: Reprinted from Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1968), courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.

Figure 32: John W. Bridges and the Lawrence County Museum.

Figure 33: Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Benjamin Milar Walls Collection.

Figure 34: Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Photo No. P83-085.

Figure 35: Photograph from Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Photo No. P83-117; information from interview with Farris King in the Collection's archive of tape transcipts, No. C88-003.

Figure 36: Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Photo No. P83-070.

Figure 37: Historic Cannelton, Inc.

Figure 38: T.C. Hopkins and C.E. Siebenthal, "The Bedford Oolitic Limestone of Indiana," in Indiana Department of Geology and Natural Resources, 21st Annual Report (Indianapolis, 1896), 331.

Figure 39: Photograph made by Clay W. Stuckey, Bedford, Indiana, from original print (1932) in the archives of the Indiana Limestone Company; information from Clay W. Stuckey, Origins of the Indiana Limestone Company, (manuscript, Indiana University-Bloomington Library, 1990), and quotation from Guthrie, A Quarter Century in Lawrence County, 1917-1941, 123.

Figure 40: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1981, 93.

Figure 41: Photograph from the Herald-Times, Bloomington, Indiana; information from Bloomington Restorations, Inc.

Figure 42: M. L. Lapping and the Orange County Historical Society Museum.

Figure 43: Photograph from William H. Mathers Museum, Indiana University, Elizabeth Bridgwaters Collection; information from Frances V. Halsell Gilliam, A Time to Speak (Bloomington, Indiana, 1985), 10-13.

Figure 44: To Save the Union: Indiana Regiments in the Civil War: An Exhibit in Honor of the 175th Anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's Birth (Indianapolis, 1985), 5, courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.

Figure 45: Jack R. Stephenson, Leavenworth, Indiana.

Figure 46: Photograph and information courtesy of Bert Fenn, Tell City, Indiana; additional information from Mary Ann Cole, Leavenworth, Indiana, and Frederick W. Way, Way's Packet Directory, 1848-1983 (Athens, Ohio, 1983), 444 (entry No. 5309).

Figure 47: Monroe County Community School Corporation.

Figure 48: Photograph by Don Hudson, Hudson Photography, Bedford, Indiana; information and quotation from Lawrence County Historical and Genealogical Society, History of Lawrence County, 93-94.

Figure 49: Modified from Kingsbury, An Atlas of Indiana, 76.

Figure 50: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 276.

Figure 51: Photograph from Hohenberger Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; reprinted with the permission of the Indiana University Foundation. Information from Bailey, History and Families, 80-81.

Figure 52: Photograph from John W. Bridges and the Lawrence County Museum; information from Lawrence County Historical and Genealogical Society, History of Lawrence County (Paducah, Kentucky, 1990).

Figure 53: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 54: Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876: Reprinted from Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1968), courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.

Figure 55: Modified from Roberts, "German-American Log Buildings," Figure 20.4.

Figure 56: Photograph from Brown County Historical Society (photographer unknown); information from Bailey, History and Families, 71.

Figure 57: Photograph and information from Nelda and William Christ, based on Mitchell family history; architectural information from Warren Roberts. The Christs had the barn carefully dismantled, numbering the logs so they could be reassembled in a new house that preserves much of the original barn and its timbers.

Figure 58: Ellen Sieber, Bloomington, Indiana.

Figure 59: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 60: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files and the Waldrip Family.

Figure 61: Ellen Sieber, Bloomington, Indiana.

Figure 62: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 63: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 64: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 65: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 66: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-34.

Figure 67: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-82.

Figure 68: Photographs courtesy of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, and from U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Reports, No. 9-11-4-34 and No. 9-11-4-80.

Figure 69: Photograph courtesy of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, and from U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-80.

Figure 70: Montgomery Ward Company, 1895 catalogue.

Figure 71: Montgomery Ward Company, 1895 catalogue.

Figure 72: Photograph and information from Bailey, History and Families, 67-68.

Figure 73: Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876: Reprinted from Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1968), courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.

Figure 74: Maps of Indiana Counties in 1876: Reprinted from Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis, 1968), courtesy of the Indiana Historical Society.

Figure 75: John W. Bridges and the Lawrence County Museum.

Figure 76: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 272.

Figure 77: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 42.

Figure 78: Photograph from Tell City Historical Society and Bert Fenn; quotation from Warren Ogle, in Dorothy Birney Bailey, Brown County Remembers (Indiana, 1986), 173.

Figure 79: Patoka Lake Visitors Center.

Figure 80: Photograph and quotation from Guthrie, A Quarter Century in Lawrence County, 1917-1941, 56.

Figure 81: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, not numbered.

Figure 82: Modified from Visher, "Indiana Regional Contrasts in Soil Erosion," Figure 5.

Figure 83: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, No. 393484.

Figure 84: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, No. 395272.

Figure 85: Matthew Sieber, Bloomington, Indiana.

Figure 86: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, No. 406702.

Figure 87: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, No. 419118.

Figure 88: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, No. 393480.

Figure 89: U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Files.

Figure 90: U.S. Forest Service Photo Files, Nos. 403994 and 420019.

Figure 91: Jack R. Stephenson, Leavenworth, Indiana.

Figure 92: U.S. Navy, Crane Naval Weapons Depot.

Figure 93: Photograph from the Orange County Historical Society Museum; information from Coy D. Robbins, Bloomington, Indiana.

Figure 94: Photograph from "Pioneer Days in Troy," courtesy of the Perry County Development Corporation; information from Frank Baertich, History of Troy, Indiana, (Utica, Kentucky, 1983), 100-101.

Figure 95: William H. Mathers Museum, Indiana University, Shaw/Starks Collection.

Figure 96: Hohenberger Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; reprinted with permission from the Indiana University Foundation.

Figure 97: Illustration and quotation John W. Bridges and the Lawrence County Museum.

Figure 98: Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Photo No. P88-115, Owen Stout Collection.

Figure 99: Patoka Lake Visitors Center, Upper Patoka Valley Heritage Collection, Photo No. P88-108, Owen Stout Collection.

Figure 100: Photograph from the Hohenberger Collection, Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; reprinted with the permission of the Indiana University Foundation. Information from Dorothy Bailey, Brown County Historical Society.

Figure 101: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage, 98.

Figure 102: Perry Central School, Excavation at the Celina House (1991), report submitted to the Hoosier National Forest.

Figure 103: Perry Central School, Excavation at the Celina House (1991), report submitted to the Hoosier National Forest.

Figure 104: Photograph courtesy of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, and from U.S. Forest Service Cultural Resource Report, No. 9-11-4-82.

Figure 105: Monroe County, Indiana, Family Heritage 1987, 273.

Figure 106: Lawrence County Museum and the W.R. Oyler descendants.