A Trip down The Wabash in Old Postcards

Darwin

Darwin, Illinois is approximately 310 miles from the source of the Wabash in Grand Lake, Ohio.

Here is a report about the sad death of a teenager drowned in the Wabash, that appeared in the Marshall Republican newspaper of August 13, 1909...

Wm. Henson about 17 years old who was fishing in the Wabash near Darwin was drowned Thursday evening. A rope by which he was working his boat was broken suddenly throwing him into the water and although said to be a good swimmer he was drowned before assistance could arrive.

Merom

Merom, Indiana is approximately 335 miles from the source of the Wabash in Grand Lake, Ohio.

Bluffs and Wabash River, Merom, Indiana

This postcard, posted in Sullivan, Indiana on January 3rd, 1910, has the printed text...

No. 10053
Published by The Indiana News Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
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