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