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The Elkhart River is a 48.3-mile-long (77.7 km) [1] tributary of the St. Joseph River in northern Indiana in the United States. [2] It is almost entirely contained in Elkhart County. It begins as the South Branch Elkhart River from Port Mitchell Lake and the North Branch Elkhart River from Waldron Lake and merge to form the Elkhart River west ...
FIPS code. 26-17860 [1] GNIS feature ID. 1626128 [2] Website. Township website. Constantine Township is a civil township of St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,037 at the 2020 census. [3] The village of Constantine is located within the township.
1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. The Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad was the first railroad to cross Missouri starting in Hannibal in the northeast and going to St. Joseph, Missouri, in the northwest. It is said to have carried the first letter to the Pony Express on April 3, 1860, from a train pulled behind the locomotive Missouri .
St. Joseph's population was 72 in 1902, [5] and 100 in 1925. [6] Since the town of St. Joe is small and unincorporated, the community's life and activities revolve almost entirely around their church and school. In 1996, the parish numbered 141 families. The parish school had 87 students attending grades K through 12.
In its early days, St. Joseph was a bustling outpost and rough frontier town, serving as one of the last supply points before heading over the Missouri River to the frontier. St. Joseph had good steamboat connections to St. Louis, Missouri, and other ports on the combined Ohio, Missouri and Mississippi River systems. During the busy season ...
The myth of a French fort at the mouth of the Chicago River emerged following the publication of a map of Lake Michigan by Louis Hennepin in 1698 (see map, above). His map showed Fort Miami near the mouth of the St. Joseph River, however, he showed the river as emerging from the southernmost tip of the lake. Hennepin's map was widely copied ...
The lowest is on the Des Plaines River, in Will County. In Indiana the crest ranges from 750 feet (230 m) in Lake County to nearly 900 feet (270 m) in LaPorte County. The Michigan section is 670 feet (200 m) to 800 feet (240 m) in near the St. Joseph River and north to the Allegan and Van Buren county line. In Allegan County the moraine has its ...
Treaty of Carey Mission (1828) -lands, south of the Chicago (1821) treaty line to a line near S.R. 6 (La Paz-Syracuse) then southeast to the Eel River near Columbia City; Treaty of St. Joseph (1827) Treaty of St. Joseph (1828) Treaty of Tippecanoe (10/20/1832): lands, north western Indiana, west of a line running south from South Bend