Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue
History & Genealogy

Culver, Marshall, Indiana

Cottagers & Property Owners East Shore

This is probably an incomplete listing probably of cottage lots and owners - but this is what was listed on the plat map of 1876 and what I am able to decipher of it. I hope to connect everything from the 1876 plat map forward but that will take time and much more research - in hopes of making an accurate history and genealogy o f the lake and along the way gathering pictures, maps, stories, myths, legends, biographies, obitauries etc. to enhance it.

None of these listings are eteched in stone - it is probably just a partial listing from sources during this time period - and based on known facts of 1876, on the plat map - everything may change if I can ever get the use of some of the abstracts or cottagers step forth with corrected data.

I will try and carry this data forward to each of the plat maps if I can connect from this one to the next.

Hopefully from deeds, abstracts and future research we can list the complete property owners at this time.

1837 - 10 August - William Thompson

By Daniel Mc Daniel in "An Early History of Lake Maxinkuckee" (1908):

The Only one of the caravan who settled on the lake was Eleazer Thompson who built a log cabin a year or two later where the residence of Mrs. H. H. Culver is now located on the northeast shore. The old cabin still stands just north of the Culver residence, but has been remodeled, losing thereby some of its primitive beauty. Mr. Thompson was, therefore, the first white settler to take up permenant residence on the banks of the lake. He died a few years later, and the property has changed hands many times since then. The elder Adam Mow lived ther in the early forties, rearing a large family of boys and girls who are well remembered by the surviviors of that early period in the history of the lake.

1876 - G. Peoples 35.5A & 16.96A [George Peeples/George Peoples]

1876 - J. C. Miles [John C. Miles]

1863 - L. T. Van Shoiack [Louden T. Van Shoiak]

105.80 acres on the lake, in Section 27, 120 acres in Section 26 all his property was in the old Indian reserve the public highway ran right through the barnyard in early times

1876 - L. T. Van Shoiack [Louden T. Van Shoiak]

Lake View Club - was built in 1873 and on the L. T. Van Shoiack farm before moving to the North shore to larger quarters.

1837 - June 30 - Land Patent to James F. D. Lanier
1876 - Francis Edwards

1837 - June 30 - Land Patent to James F. D. Lanier
1876 - not stated [by One Townships Yesterdays Joesph Bozarth purchased in 1865]

Last updated 24.11.2009

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