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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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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.
Feb 28, 2015 · Vigo County. African-Americans had settled Vigo County early in its documented history. Only two years after Vigo County was formed (1818), the 1820 census showed there were 26 free blacks in the ...
Mar 27, 2016 · Dorothy Ross, 92, tells the history of Lost Creek. ... History behind Vigo County’s Lost Creek . by: Marissa Miller ... Indiana dashboard adds 26 COVID deaths, 1,639 more cases of coronavirus in ...
Apr 13, 2023 · An artist will soon study the history of the Lost Creek pioneers who ... the Lost Creek Settlement in eastern Vigo County in the early 19th century. ... Lost Creek historian Dorothy Ross told the ...
Dorothy Mae Ross Dorothy Mae Ross, 96, passed away peacefully in her home on September 11, 2019. She was born in Terre Haute, Indiana on February 25, 1923. She is predeceased by parents Ema (Anderson) Ross and Clyde Ross of Terre Haute, brother Manford Ross of Terre Haute, sister Geneva Ross of Terre Haute and brother Virgil Ross of El Cajon ...
