So on the Fourth of July Jesse and I decided to go to Prophetstown. It is not a far drive from our home in Lafayette and it was a beautiful day out. This place is very cool. We stopped at the visitor center first and met a very nice and enthusiastic naturalist that worked there at the park. She told us about all the trails and the working farm house and the water park. She was also kind enough to point out that here in IN there are no poisonous snakes or black widows like we had to worry about in NC. It makes walking in tall grass and woods much nicer.
It is a huge State Park that has an old farm house on the property that you can go around in and touch everything. You can open the cabinets and play the piano and sit at the dining room table. Everything in there was from the olden days. There were horses in the yard along with chickens, pigs and a bunch of cats and kittens. They try to stay true to the time period and they use big horses to plow the fields and they use what they grow to feed the animals on the park. It is very self-sustaining.
We also walked around the old recreation of an Indian settlement. They had a few buildings up with some descriptions of who lived there and how they lived.There was also a location where the two rivers came together. The Tippacanoe river and the Wabash River. It was quite a walk through what can only be described as the Dothraki sea. It was a huge prarie I guess that had grass taller than me. You couldn’t see anything but the path in front of you. It was quite amazing. We had to weave through some trees in order to get to the beachy area along the Wabash River. Jesse went along and found the spot where the two rivers met. I eventually made my way over there for some pictures. It was very neat to see.
Prophetstown was a great place to walk around, get some exercise, learn some history and enjoy the outdoors. We will probably go there again someday to explore some of the other trails and see what else it has to offer.
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