Posted by Buzzman72 on January 16, 2011 at 00:35:29 from (74.129.197.93):
In Reply to: Re: Family tree posted by 2x4 on January 16, 2011 at 00:18:51:
One branch of my family tree years back heard that as part of some act of Congress in 1820, land in the old Northwest Territory could be had for $1.25 an acre, with an 80-acre minimum. They were living in New York at the time. So they turned their house into a houseboat, loaded it on a wagon, and headed for the headwaters of the Monongahela River and launched the boat. They floated down the Ohio River until they got to the falls of the Ohio btween Louisville and Jeffersonville, IN. Rather than pay a river pilot $5 to take their boat over the falls, they tied up at Jeffersonville and spent the winter working at a cooperage there, making some money. When the spring floods came, they untied the boat and "shot" the falls without a pilot. They ended up downstream at the mouth of Blue River, and came up Blue River just east of Leavenworth, IN. They proceeded to build a series of mills--grain and sawmills--up and down Blue River...and Wyandotte Caves were discovered on their property. They operated the caves as a tourist attraction until the State of Indiana threatened the descendants with "eminent domain", and the descendants sold the property to the state in about 1966.
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