Kankakee Valley Historical Society

 
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    • Kankakee Valley Historical Society Public Programs
      • Haunted History: a Halloween Special
      • The Civil War Comes to Northwest Indiana
      • What Ever Happened to Beaver Lake program
      • Whatever Happened to the Kankakee Marsh
    • Kankakee Valley Historical Society Questionnaire
    • KVHS BOD page
      • Ivy Tech Collier Lodge Site Design Plans
        • Jay’s Collier Lodge Visitor Center Designs
        • Nathan’s Visitor Center Plans
      • Minutes, Agendas and Tresurer’s Reports
      • Open Door Fellowship Church
    • KVHS Collier Store merchandise
      • Collier Lodge Dig t-shirt 2023
      • Everglades of the North DVD
      • KVHS logo Hat-Camo
      • KVHS logo Hat-Duck Brown
      • KVHS logo heavy weight hooded jacket
      • KVHS logo t-shirt
      • KVHS Wayne Cooper t-Shirt Order Form
      • Tales of the People and Places of the Olde Kankakee River
      • The Kankakee River Almanac
      • The Kankakee River by Ira Fry
    • KVHS in the News
      • 16 Organizations to recieve grants
      • Aukiki Festival Garners State Recognition 8/31/2017
      • Aukiki River Festival 2018 in the News
      • Aukiki River Festival news articles 2018
      • 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
      • Sarah Miller-2019 Spirit Award recipient
      • The Grand Kankakee Marsh-WTIU Bloomington PBS
      • Unable to be saved, Collier Lodge replica project in the works; some materials from original lodge to be salvaged for new building.
    • KVHS Volunteer Application
    • Membership and Donations
      • KVHS Donation form
      • KVHS Family Membership form
      • KVHS Individual Membership form
    • Rental
      • Riverwood 1
      • Riverwood2
      • Riverwood3
  • Collier Lodge Archaeology
    • 2024 Collier Lodge Archaeological Dig Application
      • 2024 Collier Lodge dig t-shirt
    • Collier Lodge Archaeology articles
    • Collier Lodge Archaeology Documents
    • Collier Lodge Archaeology Photo Gallery
      • 2004 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2005 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2006 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2007 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2008 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2009 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2010 Dig Photo Gallery
      • 2011 Dig Photo Gallery
  • Contact
    • Contact Info
  • Kankakee River History
    • Books and Papers
    • Hunters, Pioneers and Sportsmen
      • A Tale of the Kankakee River
      • Blue Cranes Over the Bayou
      • Catching My First Racoon
      • Emanuel “Sandy” Sollars
      • Fur Trapping the Kankakee Marsh
      • Home of Chief Killbuck
      • How Firm a Foundation
      • Indian Island
      • James Maurice Thompson the Sportsman
      • Joseph Bailly
      • Killbuck
      • LaBonta Saves His Sweetheart
      • LaBonta was a Kankakee River Pioneer
      • McFadin Meets Killbuck and LaBonta
      • On The Kankakee
      • Rol Gordon
      • Rowley Morehouse
      • Samuel L. McFadin
      • Sandy Sollars: Kankakee River Guide
      • Steamboat Trip on the Kankakee River with Max Ahlgrim
      • The Hall Family
      • The Hall Family and the Kankakee River
      • The Rowley Morehouse Story
      • Trappers’ Claims
    • 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
      • The Battle Over the Draining The Kankakee River
      • 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
      • Native Americans by Richard C. Schmal
      • Tecumseh
    • Potpourri
      • A Baum’s Bridge Ghost Story
      • An Archer on the Kankakee
      • An Early Kankakee Journey
      • Au-ki-ki
      • Bells on Her Toes
      • Benjamin Gifford and the Chicago and Wabash Valley Railroad
      • Casper Belstra-Kankakee Marsh Settler
      • Charles Bell Withrow
      • Charles Bell Withrow: A Kankakee River Robinson Crusoe
      • Choice Grain
      • Clayton Reif interview 1980s
      • 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
      • Dear Santa, it’s 1906
      • Dick and Irene Evans
      • Down by the Riverside
      • Ella “Elsie” Terpstra-Nannenga
      • Esther Ruisard-Richards
      • Garrett and Teenie Walstra
      • George Deane interview
      • George W Miles: Early 20th Century Guardsman of the Kankakee Marsh
      • Grace Dexter-Seegers
      • Harry Nusbaum
      • Hay Camps Flourished in Late 1800d Along the Kankakee
      • Henry “Hank” Boezeman
      • How Kouts, Indiana came to be?
      • J. Wesley Johnson
      • Jacob “Jake” Nannenga
      • James M. Dickey
      • James Maurice Thompson
      • Jasper County
      • John DeKock
      • John Wayne Oliver
      • Judge Horace P. Biddle
      • Last of the Timber Thieves
      • Leonard Swart-Kankakee Marsh Farmer
      • Little Rhoda and the White Elephant
      • Mary Morehosue-Thatcher: A Kankakee River fur trappers daughter
      • Mysterious Foorprints
      • Newton County
      • Old Bray
      • Once Upon a Time by Cable Ball
      • President Benjamin Harrison
      • Riverside Park at Baum’s Bridge to Preserve Historical Sites
      • Running the Ferry
      • Ruth Aylesworth-Kiesma
      • Sighting the Stars in Transit
      • Starke
      • Steamboats on the Kankakee
      • Teenie Boezeman-DeKock
      • The Allen Trace
      • The Civil War Comes to Baum’s Bridge
      • The First Christmas
      • The Founding of Rensselaer
      • The Kankakee in the Old Days
      • The Old Kankakee by Porter Childers
      • The Pottowattomie
      • The Second Steamboat on the Kankakee River
      • The Tragedy of the Trees
      • The Vincennes-Chicago Road
      • The Wether Book
  • Programs
    • Aukiki Flapjack Breakfast 2023
      • Aukiki Flapjack Breakfast 2023 ticket purchase
    • Aukiki River Festival 2022
      • 12th annual Aukiki River Festival New Participants
      • 2022 Aukiki River Festival Participant Application
      • Aukiki River Festival 2017 Photo Gallery
    • Aukiki River Walk April 30, 2022
    • Kankakee Valley Historical Society Picnic
      • KVHS Picnic Tickets
    • KVHS PowerPoint
  • Projects
    • Collier Lodge
      • Collier Lodge restoration study, plans and pictures
    • Grand Kankakee Bridge
    • Linden Cabin
    • Native Gardens
      • Native Gardens Harvest 2020

Native American

Chief Alexis Menominee

Chief Leopold Pokagon

Chief Simon Pokagon

Frist People of the Kankakee Marsh

Tecumseh

Mingo

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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