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Rivers
The Land leg carries Osceola's own water — Baugo Creek, the bay, the bend in the township's reach of the St. Joseph River. This addendum digs the river whole, source to mouth, because the town's reach is a few miles of a two-hundred-mile river and the row directs the whole instrument. River-wide material is boundary material at river size; the Osceola/Penn share is stated in each article. Two St.
The river itself whole: source to mouth, with the other St. Joseph River distinguished
Baw Beese Lake, Hillsdale County, Michigan, to Lake Michigan at St. Joseph–Benton Harbor
Course. The St. Joseph River rises at Baw Beese Lake in Hillsdale County, Michigan — an older federal form (USGS, 1901) gives the rise as the Bunday Hills of northern Hillsdale County, and both forms print. It flows north through…
The river's names in sequence, each with its record
Seventeenth century to the present form
The sequence, from Knoblock's Early Navigation on the St. Joseph River (Indiana Historical Society Publications, Vol. 8 No. 4, 1925) and the Notre Dame Magazine's sourced account (its sources: Gregory Dowd; John Palmer of the St.…
The working river: what floated, what was locked, and what never reached Osceola
1679 – c. 1845 (the navigation era) · the Osceola reach tested separately
The route before the boats. The river's first working use was the canoe and voyageur route tied to the St. Joseph–Kankakee portage, passable all year (Knoblock, 1925): La Salle ascended in 1679 with thirty men, and a brisk fur…