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The Wayzata Subdivision or Wayzata Sub is a railway line that runs about 93 miles (150 km) from Willmar to Minneapolis, Minnesota. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Currently operated by BNSF Railway , this was part of the Great Northern Railway 's transcontinental line from Minneapolis to Seattle, Washington .
The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities to the state government. Of the initial twelve parks, only Muscatatuck State Park ...
Deam Lake State Recreation Area; Ferdinand State Forest - 7,789.9 acres (10 km 2) Frances Slocum State Forest; Greene–Sullivan State Forest – 9,048.8 acres (1.3 km 2); Athens County; Harrison–Crawford State Forest – 24,322.7 acres (5 km 2) Jackson–Washington State Forest - 18,416.2 acres (38 km 2) Martin State Forest - 7,863.6 acres ...
In the last decades of the 19th century, the area was a resort with a forty-room inn. In the 1930s a man named Joseph Frisz acquired the land in order to protect it and purchased more land around. His heirs sold the land in 1947 to the holding company "Save the Shades", who in turn gave the land to the state to create Indiana's 15th state park.
Indiana State Parks (clickable map) This page was last edited on 16 December 2022, at 18:39 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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The Indiana State Legislature passed an omnibus county bill [3] on February 7, 1835, that authorized the creation of thirteen counties in northeast Indiana, including Steuben. [4] In 1837 the county was organized. It was named for Baron Frederick von Steuben, an officer of the American Revolutionary War. [5]
Brown County State Park is located in the United States in the center of the southern half of the state of Indiana. The park is by far the largest of 24 state parks in Indiana, and occupies 15,776 acres (63.84 km 2 )—making it one of the larger state parks in the United States.