. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ourse to the Indianvillage in Newton Township. Another connected the village with theone in the eastern part of the county, crossed the Iroquois west ofRensselaer and recrossed it some distance east. From the latterpoint the trail extended to the Monon River and thence to theWabash. Still another crossed the county through the Forks Settle- 70 JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 71 ment toward La Porte. These were the princ
. A standard history of Jasper and Newton counties, Indiana : an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and country. ourse to the Indianvillage in Newton Township. Another connected the village with theone in the eastern part of the county, crossed the Iroquois west ofRensselaer and recrossed it some distance east. From the latterpoint the trail extended to the Monon River and thence to theWabash. Still another crossed the county through the Forks Settle- 70 JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES 71 ment toward La Porte. These were the principal trails in JasperCounty which served as rude landways, or links, between the regionaround the southern shores of Lake Michigan and the valley of theWabash, and paths between the several small Pottawattamie villagesof what is now a white mans county. A few white men also trodthese Indian trails until the new landlords commenced to lay outanother set of roads according to their own ideas of what theyshould be. The White Mans Trails and Early Roads Blazed and staked roads pioneered the way for those that wereregularly laid out. The old Horse Head road was, perhaps, the link. Familiar Object on the Early Roads between the two classes of roads. This was in the eastern part ofthe county and took its name from a horse skull which was placedupon a large bowlder and was a conspicuous landmark on the State road was the first legally established highway, leadingfrom Williamsport on the Wabash River and the head of early navi-gation, to Winamac, important in the pioneer period as the locationof the land office. This road extended from the first named place,by the most available and direct route, to the Falls of the Iroquois;thence to the now-extinct Village of Saltillo, crossing the Iroquois;again at the old ford above the farm of John Groom, and crossingthe Pinkamink on the old bridge at Saltillo and thence, by way of 72 JASPER AND XEWTON COUNTIES White Post, to Winamac. The
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