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The name Bendix Woods originates from the Bendix Corporation which donated the land to St. Joseph County for the creation of a park. The park's historical significance, however, dates to its establishment by the Studebaker Corporation, formerly of nearby South Bend, Indiana, as the first model test facility for an American automobile company.
The following is a list of state forests in Indiana by area. The first three tie as number one, so they are listed in alphabetical order. ... 24,000 acres (97.12 km 2 ...
After the Civil War, freedmen (freed slaves) were reckoned to be self-sufficient with "40 acres and a mule." In the 20th century real estate developers preferred working with 40-acre (16 ha) parcels. [2] The phrases "front 40" and "back 40," referring to farm fields, indicate the front and back quarter-quarter sections of land.
∎ New York's Central Park is 843 acres. ∎ The National Mall in Washington, D.C., is 309 acres. ∎ Niagara Falls State Park in New York state is over 400 acres (140 acres of that is under water).
The Hoosier National Forest is a 200,000-acre (810 km 2) nature preserve in south-central Indiana. Southern Indiana's topography is more varied than that in the north and generally contains more hills and geographic variation than the northern portion, such as the "Knobs" , a series of 1,000 ft (300 m) hills that run parallel to the Ohio River ...
The Hoosier National Forest is a property managed by the United States Forest Service in the hills of southern Indiana. Composed of four separate sections, it has a total area of 204,303 acres (827 km 2; 319 sq mi). [1] Hoosier National Forest's headquarters are located in Bedford, with a regional office in Tell City.
Feb. 10—SOUTHERN INDIANA — Indiana's environmental license plates celebrate a big birthday this year and have saved more than 70,000 acres of land since the early 1990s. The blue license plate ...
Indiana advances bill to ban China, other ‘foreign adversaries’ from buying farmland — after report reveals Chinese investors own nearly 385,000 acres of US land ... real estate is the ...