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The Rivers and Streams of New Carlisle

Section 70 of 91 in the New Carlisle record · 3 entry pages

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Rivers

Two great remainders close in this section: the river the recreation file pointed at a Land leg that carried only its marsh edge — here dug whole, source to mouth, with its names, its working test, and its flood want named; and the crime legs' untested classes — the robbery totals stated as totals, the serial classes run one by one, and the unsolved leg itself, never opened in the banked set, run now from the state's own list, read whole and dated.

The river itself whole: the Kankakee, source to mouth

items 1 and 2 — course, length, names, and the confluence

The Kankakee rises one township east of this one and leaves the state as another river's making: its source stands in Portage Township, St. Joseph County, some five miles southwest of South Bend ; its modern course runs 133 miles…

The working river, its dams, and the river as cup and sewer

items 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 — what floated and what never did; every dam; intake and discharge

The working test returns the marsh's answer: the Kankakee at this reach was never a navigation — no keelboat, steamboat, or flatboat traffic, no lock, and no mill-race is attributed to this township's reach in the records reached…

Tributaries, crossings, and floods: three named gaps

items 3 (drains), 6, and 9 — the ditch names; the bridge successions; the gauge's table

Three river questions wait on three county records, and are banked as gaps in this section's own file: the named waters inside the town — no tributary or creek article can stand: no named watercourse inside the town limits is…

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Source: The Rivers and Streams of New Carlisle, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/new-carlisle/rivers/