Kankakee Valley Historical Society
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Kankakee Valley Historical Society Public Programs
Haunted History: a Halloween Special
What Ever Happened to Beaver Lake program
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
2005 Dig Photo Gallery