Diane, This is so interesting! I wonder if that house is still standing? Maybe it did belong to my Myers family long, long ago! Can you tell me about how far (south) down the road it was from the intersection of Chapman and Auburn Road? Karen > I have read with great interest the correspondence on Dutch Ridge. I > believe that in the early 1960s, I lived in the house of which you speak. > It was a remodeled, 2-story farmhouse on the west side of Old Auburn Road, > just south of Chapman Road. It was owned by a family named Jordan, and > had > been previously owned by a family named Parrot. From my second floor > apartment window, I could see the Church and school and cemetery. If I > remember correctly, the school had already been converted to living > quarters, but the church was empty, and the cemetery in not too good of > condition. There was quite a bit of acreage with the house, and before I > moved away, they had dug a lake some distance behind the house, and had > plans to sub-divide and sell houses there. If the house on the east side > of > Auburn road had slave tunnels, I never heard about it. I don't believe > there was a river directly behind it, but there was a creek. It has been > many years since I have been in the area (I now live in Las Vegas) but it > was without a doubt one of the most beautiful areas in all of Indiana, > especially in the fall. Wish I could give you more history. Diane >