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The History of the Lost Creek Settlement. Terre Haute is celebrating its bicentennial along with the State of Indiana this year. Digitization of Dorothy Ross’ family history collection chronicling the lives of the earliest, free African American settlers as well as the formation of one of the earliest settlements of free people of color in ...
Mar 27, 2016 · Dorothy Ross, 92, tells the history of Lost Creek. Photos: Finding the history of Lost Creek. “They came in covered wagons…” Dorothy said. “They were prosperous people, they wanted...
The Lost Creek Settlement was an area of approximately 20 sq. miles, or 12,800 acres, located in the Northeast corner of Vigo County. It is possible that the settlement area had been platted by a Quaker group friendly to our ancesters. Otter Creek Township was formed in 1820.
Apr 13, 2023 · As Reed’s late mother Lost Creek historian Dorothy Ross told the Tribune-Star in 2019, “It was a shame, but it was necessary that they carry [the ‘freedom papers’] with them in order to...
Jan 14, 2022 · Reed’s late mother, Dorothy Ross — a beloved historian of the settlement — described her ancestor’s freedom papers to a Tribune-Star reporter during the Lost Creek Grove’s open house in...
Feb 12, 2017 · Feb 12, 2017. Submitted photoLost Creek quilters: Dorothy M. Ross, Dr. Leo F. Phillips, Buelah Edwards and Geneva A. Ross pose with historic quilts. Lost Creek Township in...
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The Lost Creek Settlement was formed beginning in the early 1800s, when a small group of free African Americans courageously traveled from Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina to settle in what is now Vigo County, Indiana, to escape the racial violence and systemic oppression of the pre-Civil War South. While “free,” the families ...
