Hoosier Packet – The Wabash & Erie Canal

This page is dedicated to the articles published in the Hoosier Packet which was the monthly newsletter for the Canal Society of Indiana from 2002 -2016

2003

Water and a Mule

Wabash & Erie Canal Connections: Annapolis (Indiana) w/ Joseph G. Cannon

We Get Letters: Hill & Orbison

In the News: Vermilyea House

Leftover Timbers

Canawlers at Rest: Samuel Hanna

Power Park (St Joseph Feeder)

Gronauer Lock Mitre Sill Photo

Nathaniel Fitch

Canawlers at Rest: William Rockhill

In the News: Gronauer Timbers Returned

In the News: History Group to Save Treasures

Gronauer Lock Marker Dedication Set

Marker for the Hamlets Heritage Highway Exhibit

Canawlers at Rest: Henry Lotz

Canawlers at Rest: David Francis Comparet

Canawlers at Rest: Oliver P. Morgan

In the News: Gronauer Marker

In the News: Canal Tour Ft. Wayne to Napolean

Canawlers at Rest: Reed Case

In the News: Delphi Builds Lock Gate & Boat Cabin

In the News: CSI Tour Announcement

In the News: Trail Walk Explores Delphi’s Bridge Creek

Research Help Wanted

Delphi High School Community Service Project

In the News: Logansport Canal Warehouse Restoration

Street Widening Unearthed Canal Remains in Logansport

“Crossing Waters” Tour

Crossing Back Over the Waters

We Get Letters

Wabash-Erie Canal Auction

Crew Finds Anchor

In the News: Forks Canal Bed Cleared

In the News: Exhibits at Forks of Wabash

I69 Indianapolis to Evansville

Lost Birds of Canal Days: Greater Prairie Chicken

Canawlers at Rest: Dr. Isaac Coe

Canawlers at Rest: William W. Haney

In the News: Peru Fest for Toll House

Blue’s Bridge

Straightening the Ropes

Wabash-Erie Canal Connections: Lodi Revisited

Arrival of Planet at Lodi

Draining Black Swamp Marker Dedication

Canawlers at Rest: Albert Smith White

In the News: Century on the Wabash New Tippecanoe Museum Exhibit

In the News: Canal Tour in Evansville

State Road 62 and the Canal

In the News: Riley Lock Granted Money

Turn Right at the Dip – Riley Lock No. 47

Physicians Tour Wabash & Erie Canal

In the News: Brewery

Early Recollections of the Lagro Dam & Environs

In the News: Wabash Canal Musical

Wabash & Erie Builders Sound

Irish Immigrants

America was Beautiful

Prairie Hen

Canal Days Potrayed in Wabash Musical

“Crossing Waters” Tour

Free Book: Wabash & Erie Canal Notebook I

Ran Last Canal Boat

Towpath Days Along Banks of Wabash

Canawlers at Rest: Francis A. Aveline

Canal Boat Names

Canawlers at Rest: Francis Comparet

In the News: MVHC Web Site

How Did Canal Boats Pass

2004

Canal Lands: Howard County

Wabash & Erie Canal Statistics

Canal Sleuths Explore Parke Co.’s Wabash-Erie Canal

Remains of Culvert 146 Found

Wabash & Erie Used to Transport Logs in 1866-1882

Canal Boat Sold – 1854

Research Wabash & Erie Boat Captains

Wabash & Erie Ship Canal

Rose Finds More Letters

Wabash & Erie Canal A Dangerous Proposition

Wabash & Erie Connections: Parke County Minerals

Covington IN Reminiscences

Greene County Mystery: What is it?

Vermilyea House Tour

Canal Marker Text for Rockhill Park

Spring Tour: “Canal Connections” – Parke Co

Wabash & Erie Missing Marker Found

Forks of the Wabash New Canal Exhibit

Lodi/Waterman Church: Wabash & Erie Connections

Birch Creek Chosen for Reservoir Site

Parke Co. Mystery Solved

Newspaper Items Concerning the Wabash & Erie Canal in Greene Co and Clay Co and Points South

Wabash & Erie Canal: Carrollton Lock No. 31 Yields a Surprise

Montezuma’s Fairs During the Wabash & Erie Canal Era

Christmas (Noel) Dagenet Marker

Traveling to Logansport via Wabash & Erie Canal in 1846

Wabash & Erie Canal Paper

19th Century Canal Ledgers Found in Peru

Wabash & Erie Canal Memories: Indian Removal

Roanoke Weekly Post: Canal Excerpts

Burnett’s Creek Arch to be Preserved

Canal Boat Travel

From Ohio to Huntington by Canal Boat: Emory Slusser

Prairie Creek Arch Endangered

Splunge Creek Reservoir

A Mid-Winter Fishing Season

Local History Week Features Canals

Dagenet Marker Arrives

“Canal Connections” Corrections

Allen Co. Ft Wayne Historical Society Trip to Delphi Canal Museum

Lost Birds of Canal Days: The Passenger Pigeon

Lost Birds of the Canal Days: the Carolina Parakeet

Montezuma Sanatorium & Hotel & Benson’s Basin

—- Canawlers at Rest —-

Canawlers at Rest: William James Bell

Canawlers at Rest: John & James McMannomy

Canawlers at Rest: John & James McMannomy

Canawlers at Rest: Asa Fairfield

Canawlers at Rest: Philo Rumsey

Canawlers at Rest: Jesse Lynch Williams

Canawlers at Rest: Willard Carpenter

Canawlers at Rest: William Crawford Linton

Canawlers: Thomas Coleman

—- In The News —-

News: Dig at Carrollton Lock 31

In the News: Peru Toll Bridge

In the News: Canal Sleuths Trip in Parke County

In the News: Manure Spill Into Canal in Clay County

In the News: Riley Lock #47

In the News: CSI Tour Parke Co.

In the News: Canal Timbers Displayed at Layafette Depot

News: Vermilyea House, Columbia Street Landing

In the News: Delphi Galleries

In the News: Lagro St. Patrick’s Church

In the News: Peru Locktender House

In the News: Wabash Wabash & Erie

—- We Get Letters —-

—- Speakers Bureau —-

Speakers Bureau: Fort Wayne

Speakers Bureau: Ft. Wayne

Speakers Bureau: Ft. Wayne (Sept 14& 15)

Speakers Bureau: Veedersburg & Columbia City

Speakers Bureau: McCain at Ft. Wayne

Speakers Bureau: Schmidts at Fort Wayne

Speakers Bureau: Terre Haute

2005

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—- We Get Letters —-

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2006

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