Maybe 25 years ago,I drove thru,or around the edge of the 'Indian Run Hunting Preserve",and saw similar Land along RT 50 east of Fayetteville. I guessed at the time that that area was harder to drain than others. I don't know that for fact. If I'm right, malarial type agues were common. Pasture would have dome better than crops,on wet years like we are having this year. We have here different subsoils. If the area was swamp a long time, the subsoil is grey,and little water drains downward. Surface drainage is the option, but it requires some differeewnces in elevation. Indian Run would be the drainage. School no 13,and school no 4 are were on Indian Run ,1876. J Thompson was 1\2 mile from No 4. Chasetown had no 3. I suppose it had some neighborhood name like "Indian Run school" .1 room My grandmother was born in 1859,and started teaching in a 1 room school in 1873. And she was considered better educated than most from several years in New Richmond schools. A steam saw mill is the only industry in that quarter. My atlas shows no cemetary in that quarter. If they buried there,it was on high ground near Indian Run. 10 feet would be high ground. I guess it's Dodson creek over the line in Highland Co. There was a man in n e Clermont farming flat farms,that was sucessful growing and hauling 30 miles,hay for Cincinnati's horses. My great,great grandfather hauled hay,and fruit,from this farm,to Cincinnati.27 miles. 1846. On Mon, 26 May 2003 12:03:29 -0700 "Liisa Penner" <[email protected]> writes: > Hermon: > Thank you so much for the information on Perry Township! What can > you tell > us about Indian Run, the area where the Thompson and Hemm families > lived in > the 1830s?, 1840s, 1850s or so. I visited there a few years ago, and > it was > a beautiful hunting preserve. What crops would the settlers there > have > grown? Would they have gotten their water from the tiny creek that > flows > through it? Where would they have been buried in the 1840s and > 1850s? on the > homesites? Were there schools there in those days? > Thank you for all the help you have given people on this list. > Liisa Mellin Penner > > > ==== OHBROWN Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the Brown County message board lately? > From the RootsWeb message board home page, click on: "U. S. > States," then "Ohio," "Counties" and then "Brown." Any message > posted there also appears on this mailing list, giving you "two for > one" exposure. > > ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!