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Our Town

Our Town. New Harmony Indiana Church St. looking toward Main in 1893. A River Runs By It – Harmonie, 1825. Done by a Harmonist. Harmonist land shaded. Given to Robert Owen. Ca. 1840 Drawn by Robert Dale Owen.

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Our Town

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  1. Our Town New Harmony Indiana Church St. looking toward Main in 1893

  2. A River Runs By It – Harmonie, 1825 Done by a Harmonist. Harmonist land shaded. Given to Robert Owen.

  3. Ca. 1840 Drawn by Robert Dale Owen

  4. The intersection of the two yellow lines is Church and Main Streets. Notice that Main St. extends north to the Wabash River. This is where boats landed in the 1800’s. Notice also that West St. extends north to the Wabash. This extension was called Fretageot Lane. The road to the Cut-off ferry is today Woods Ave. It does not extend to the river today.

  5. DownFretageot Lane to the ferry

  6. Fretageot Sawmill

  7. Hand drawn map of Fretageot Lane showing location of the sawmill.

  8. Rosebank – Home of the Fretageots

  9. Old Episcopal Church

  10. North Main St. – Lane to Wabash - 1907

  11. Covered bridge over Gresham Creek - 1891

  12. The Cut-Off and Cut-Off Mill

  13. By the 1850’s the cut-off was becoming the main channel. As the old river channel dried up, so did commercial traffic on the Wabash. As a stronger current flowed through the cut-off, it washed away sediment leaving rock. The shoals that was formed made commercial traffic on the Wabash impossible. The shoals is called the “Old Dam” by locals.

  14. The Old Dam

  15. Attempts to dam the cut-off and redirect the water to the old channel failed.

  16. Old River - 1913

  17. Head of Old River - 1916

  18. Rollin’ on the River – before the cut-off became the main channel.

  19. Eugene pushing barge

  20. Tugboat Laura moving gravel digger

  21. No bridge over troubled water

  22. Ferry Mary Jane - 1927

  23. Horse Power – Charles Chadwick Ferry

  24. Let’s go down to the river to play . . . Winter 1918

  25. River Park - 1925

  26. At home on the river - 1926

  27. An unruly neighbor – Ice on the Wabash –postcard 1912

  28. To Miss Caroline Pelham, Los Angeles, CA Just see how badly the Wabash has been behaving. Damaging almost every boat on the river. Down shore big gravel barges and boats over the willow trees. It certainly looked bad for a while. The U. S. Army boats were damaged the most. I think of you 17 degrees below zero. Laugh now. Jan. 29, 1912

  29. Breaking ice around boats with dynamite - 1912

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