Climax Prairie trails
Kalamazoo County MI (0)
After leaving Section 28, I wanted to get as close as I could to Potter Lake, because that's where the story of the naming of Climax Prairie took place:
Some time in April or May, 1831, Judge Eldred, Daniel B. Eldred, Hiram Moore, and Calvin White visited the prairie, and made a thorough examination of it. Night overtook them and they camped on the east bank of a beautiful clear lake, which lay near the trail just west of the prairie, now known as Potter's Lake. Before leaving they proposed to name the prairie, and each in turn suggested a name. ...