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      • Aukiki River Festival 2018 in the News
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      • Collier Lodge Bore Sample Survey
      • Collier Lodge Garden an Homage to Area’s History
      • Everglades Minus the Gators-Outdoor Indiana July 2017
      • History Abounds at Annual Aukiki River Festival in Kouts 8/26/2017
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  • Kankakee River History
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    • Hunters, Pioneers and Sportsmen
      • A Tale of the Kankakee River
      • Emanuel “Sandy” Sollars
      • Fur Trapping the Kankakee Marsh
      • Killbuck
      • LaBonta Saves His Sweetheart
      • LaBonta was a Kankakee River Pioneer
      • McFadin Meets Killbuck and LaBonta
      • Rol Gordon
      • Rowley Morehouse
      • Samuel L. McFadin
      • Sandy Sollars: Kankakee River Guide
      • The Hall Family
    • Kankakee River Restoration
      • Alfred H. Meyer-Kankakee River Restoration Advocate
      • Alfred H. Meyer: Kankakee River Restoration Science Pioneer #1
      • Alfred H. Meyer: Kankakee River Restoration Science Pioneer #2
      • Alfred H. Meyer: Kankakee River Restoration Science Pioneer #3
      • Alfred H. Meyer: Kankakee River Restoration Science Pioneer #4
      • Army Corps 1916 Report
      • Draining the Swamps
      • Frank Ling
      • James Maurice Thompson-Early Kankakee Marsh Preservationist
      • Opposition to Draining The Kankakee Marsh
      • They Say the Kankakee Is Coming Back
      • William Bridges
      • William Cameron
    • Lew Wallace
      • General Lew Wallace
      • Lew and Susan Wallace
      • Lew Wallace Introduction
      • Lew Wallace on the Kankakee
      • Lew Wallace; the Golden Years
    • Maps and Land Plats
    • Native American
      • Chief Alexis Menominee
      • Chief Leopold Pokagon
      • Chief Simon Pokagon
      • First People of the Kankakee Marsh
      • Mingo
      • Tecumseh
    • Potpourri
      • A Baum’s Bridge Ghost Story
      • An Archer on the Kankakee
      • Au-ki-ki
      • Casper Belstra-Kankakee Marsh Settler
      • Charles Bell Withrow
      • Charles Bell Withrow: A Kankakee River Robinson Crusoe
      • Collier Lodge Skeleton Mystery
      • Cornelius R. Evers
      • Crossings and Bridges
      • Dan Tanner and Gerben Eenshuistra
      • Dear Santa 1909
      • Dear Santa 1911
      • Dear Santa in 1912 Part 2
      • Dear Santa in1912 Part 1
      • Dick and Irene Evans
      • Down by the Riverside
      • Ella “Elsie” Terpstra-Nannenga
      • Esther Ruisard-Richards
      • Garrett and Teenie Walstra
      • George W Miles: Early 20th Century Guardsman of the Kankakee Marsh
      • Grace Dexter-Seegers
      • Harry Nusbaum
      • Henry “Hank” Boezeman
      • How Kouts, Indiana came to be?
      • J. Wesley Johnson
      • Jacob “Jake” Nannenga
      • James M. Dickey
      • James Maurice Thompson
      • John DeKock
      • John Wayne Oliver
      • Judge Horace P. Biddle
      • Leonard Swart-Kankakee Marsh Farmer
      • Little Rhoda and the White Elephant
      • Mary Morehosue-Thatcher: A Kankakee River fur trappers daughter
      • Old Bray
      • President Benjamin Harrison
      • Running the Ferry
      • Ruth Aylesworth-Kiesma
      • Teenie Boezeman-DeKock
      • The Civil War Comes to Baum’s Bridge
      • The First Christmas
      • The First Steamboats on the Kankakee
      • The Kankakee in the Old Days
      • The Pottowattomie
      • The Tragedy of the Trees
      • The Wether Book
  • Programs
    • Aukiki Flapjack Breakfast 2020
      • Aukiki Flapjack Breakfast 2020 ticket purchase
    • Aukiki River Festival 2020
      • 12th annual Aukiki River Festival New Participants
      • 2020 Aukiki River Festival Participant Application
      • Aukiki River Festival 2017 Photo Gallery
    • Aukiki River Walk
      • Aukiki River Walk picture page
    • KVHS PowerPoint
  • Projects
    • Collier Lodge
      • Collier Lodge restoration study, plans and pictures
    • Grant Kankakee Bridge
    • Linden Cabin
    • Native Gardens

Collier Lodge Archaeology

Collier Lodge Archaeology Articles

Collier Lodge Archaeology Documents

Collier Lodge 2004 Dig Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2005 Photo Gallery

 Collier Lodge 2006 Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2007 Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2008 Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2009 Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2010 Photo Gallery

Collier Lodge 2011 Photo Gallery

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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