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    • Potpourri
      • A Baum’s Bridge Ghost Story
      • An Archer on the Kankakee
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      • Charles Bell Withrow: A Kankakee River Robinson Crusoe
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      • Dear Santa in1912 Part 1
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      • Ella “Elsie” Terpstra-Nannenga
      • Esther Ruisard-Richards
      • George W Miles: Early 20th Century Guardsman of the Kankakee Marsh
      • Grace Dexter-Seegers
      • Harry Nusbaum
      • Henry “Hank” Boezeman
      • J. Wesley Johnson
      • Jacob “Jake” Nannenga
      • James Maurice Thompson
      • John DeKock
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      • Leonard Swart-Kankakee Marsh Farmer
      • Mary Morehosue-Thatcher: A Kankakee River fur trappers daughter
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Potpourri

The Civil War Comes to Baum’s Bridge

J. Wesley Johnson

President Benjamin Harrison

Charles Bell Withrow

James Maurice Thompson

Contact Info

22 W. 1050 S
Kouts, IN 46347

Phone: 219-766-2302,

Email: president@kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org

Website: http://www.kankakeevalleyhistoricalsociety.org/

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