Just walking around in the woods can turn up interesting places.
Pioneer homestead possibly?
Just walking around in the woods can turn up interesting places.
The cemetery is still there. Can't confirm the marker you are talking about. I have heard it is still there. I think more than yourself has cleaned that cemetery as an Eagle project.When I was growing up in Nashville Indiana, as part of a Boy Scout project I cleaned up some brush and weeds growing around the grave marker of a Revolutionary War soldier buried within the bounds of Nashville. It was in the wooded area within the triangle formed where Jefferson Street merges with Van Buren/State Highway 135 on the north side of Nashville. There is a ridge that separates Jefferson and Van Buren streets, and the grave stone was located on top of that ridge. If you go to google maps and enter "301-499 Jefferson St N, Nashville, IN 47448" it will show you the area.
This was probably in the early 70's and I do not recall who owned that property or the name on the grave stone, and wonder if it is even still there. Maybe one of you current Brown Countians, or someone who wants to make a road trip, might wish to investigate.
I have not thought of this in years -- probably decades -- but when I saw the title of the thread it was the first thing that popped into my mind.
Gobblers Rock has fallen. Not sure if the whole tree or just the rock. I did manage to see it before it came down.My wife and I love tracking down oddball locations. Not exactly "forgotten and lost", but still fun to find.
A few I can think of:
Tulip Trestle is kinda cool.
Solsberry, IN - America's Longest Railroad Trestle, Formerly
If you wonder around on the back roads nearby, there is a little artist's house with a spoon dragon and "bigfoot". Pretty funky.
Milltown, Indiana's Shoe Tree
Milltown, IN - Shoe Tree
There USED to be some pretty large boulders about 20-30' up in a couple of trees, on a trail near Yellowwood Lake. Gobbler's Rock:
Unionville, IN - Gobbler's Rock-in-Tree (Gone)
Supposedly another set of rocks in trees, on private property, just north of there. I've not trespassed to confirm.
If your GF was young, maybe she remembers it wrong and went to Wilstem ranch? All Capone went there.
We talked to a couple of pretty old guys down at the hardware store there in Shoals and they said the same thing...just past the road to Dave Harder's gun shop on the right is an old road bed she said they followed - same thing those guys in town said - but, that road bed follows up the ridge back up to Harder's Gun Shop road and there are houses all along the other side of the road. We went down to the river from there and followed along but couldn't find it. It's in there somewhere I suppose, but we couldn't find it. I can't find anything about it on the web either.
The old guys in Shoals are pretty?
Pioneer homestead possibly?
Just walking around in the woods can turn up interesting places.
My girlfriend is from Loogootee and swears she visited a site on the White river just outside Shoals where Dillinger and his gang hid out, it's an old jail and is now on private property. We tried to find it once, but she couldn't remember exactly where it was. We wandered around in the woods up and down the river but never found it.
In southern Brown County, past Story but not on SR 135, there is the remnant of a town called Elkinsville. The area is now part of the headwaters to Lake Monroe. The road at Elkinsville comes to the foot of a hill, known locally as Browning Mountain. On top of the hill are large stones arranged in a pattern that some have likened to Stonehenge. Google Earth has images. There used to be a 4wd only road to the area. No it is only open to foot traffic.
I've seen 2 of the 5, and fished all over cataract falls. It's neat frozen but it's really impressive when the lake is flooded and the lower falls disappear!I saw this come across my Facebook feed today. There's 2-3 I'd never heard of before.
5 Waterfalls That'll Take Your Breath Away in Indiana