Kankakee Valley Historical Society
 
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      • Haunted History: a Halloween Special
      • What Ever Happened to Beaver Lake program
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      • 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
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    • Rental
      • Riverwood 1
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  • 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
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  • 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

Collier Lodge Archaeology

2022 Collier Lodge Archaeological Dig application

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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