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6 unusual facts about Wabash River


George Army Airfield

It was impossible to get to either Lawrenceville or Vincennes, Indiana from the airfield except by boat when the levee broke on the Wabash River.

George Boxley

Finally Boxley headed to Indiana, pausing first at Strawtown with the idea of continuing westward to settle along the Wabash River.

Jared Carter

Much of his early work is set in "Mississinewa County", an imaginary place that includes the actual Mississinewa River, a tributary of the Wabash River.

Simon Bruté

The state line at the Wabash River little affected missionaries such as Bruté and Badin.

The Jake Effect

Jake Galvin (Jason Bateman) is a successful lawyer, who has grown disdainful of his job after his latest successful case allows a client to dump Paradichlorobenzine into the Wabash River.

WHFE-LP

The stations had plans to vastly-increase their coverage area — WHFE had separate application and construction permits that would increase its power to 25 kW and move the transmitter closer to Terre Haute, to cover that city; while WVGO was to increase to 150 kW, broadcasting from near the banks of the Wabash River, using a directional antenna that would transmit a "bow-tie" lobe towards Sullivan and Marshall, Illinois.


Arthur St. Clair

This force advanced to the location of Indian settlements near the headwaters of the Wabash River, but on November 4 they were routed in battle by a tribal confederation led by Miami Chief Little Turtle and Shawnee chief Blue Jacket.

Frederick Hinde Zimmerman

Zimmerman's farm, originally purchased by his grandfather Thomas S. Hinde from the federal government in 1815, included the Grand Rapids Dam, Hanging Rock, and Buttercrust.

Goshen Road

The original Goshen Road turned north toward modern Opdyke, following the Big Muddy/Wabash Divide.

Parke County, Indiana

The first European settlement of the western area of Indiana along the Wabash River was by French-Canadian colonists, who founded Vincennes in 1703.

Southwestern Indiana

1 After Ohio, Patoka, Wabash, and White Rivers or
six including the Little Wabash, and Embarras Rivers
all of which join along the boundaries Knox, Gibson
or Posey Counties.

St. Anne Shell Chapel

As the chapel was being built, Sister Mary Joseph Le Fer de la Motte had the idea to line the walls with iridescent river shells from the nearby Wabash River.


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Harmony, Pennsylvania

They formally established the Harmony Society in 1805 and lived in Pennsylvania for about 10 years before selling the Harmony property in 1814 to Abraham Ziegler, a Mennonite, and moving west to Indiana Territory, where they built the town of Harmony on the Wabash River (now New Harmony, Indiana).