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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 ...
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...
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Mar 27, 2016 · So when we tell you the story of Dorothy Ross’ farm, you can probably guess it’s nothing new. You’d be right because in fact it’s already been around for about 150 years. Dorothy Ross, 92...
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...
Feb 28, 2015 · “I was most impressed with the descendants of Lost Creek, Dorothy Ross and her daughter Dee Reed, and their collection of family history. I would hope that others would be compelled to...
at the Lost Creek Grove, Lost Creek Missionary Baptist Church and Stewart Lawn Cemetery. She was well known as a local historian with decades of research on the Lost Creek Settlement. She delighted in sharing genealogy and historic family memorabilia.
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.
