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Huntington County IN

• 03.14.08
  Topeah – Frost on Leaves
  Huntington - 2004, Huntington County IN (0)

  This is another photo of the Nuck House. This is the home of the man the Nuck's worked for, Chief Francis Lafontaine. His name in Miami was Topeah, which is said to mean something like Frost on Leaves or Frost on Bushes. This house, too, was moved from its original location. It was in the way of US-24 when that road was widened, and was moved here. US-24 runs right alongside the Forks of the Wabash, so it was not a distant move. The building still has much the same relationship to the terrain that it had ...
  
  
• 03.12.08
  Nuck House
  Huntington - 2004, Huntington County IN (0)

  Writing about this bike ride is refreshing my memory. I actually stopped my bike ride not five miles short of the campground, nor ten miles, but about 20 miles from it. It took me a while to get two different bike rides to that campground unconfused in my mind. Next morning Myra had business back in Michigan, and I rode to the Historic Forks of the Wabash at Huntington. I had called ahead and learned that the place is mostly oriented toward group tours. Since I was going to be a group of only one, they suggested I ...