• Vagen cottage at a cost of $2500-3000
• H/B Haymond of Indianapols on the southeast corner of the lake at a cost of $800-1000

 

House of A 1000 Candles - 762 East Shore Drive

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

Mr. Stechorn, near Mr. Culver, has a well fifty feet deep, which has a small flow.

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

Farther east, Mr. Willis H. Vajen has a good well which flows nine teen feet above the surface of the lake. This bore showed forty feet of continuous clay, followed by ten feet of sand.

5 May 1904 - Geo. Yandes of Indianapolis arrived at the lake Wednesday. He recently bouth the Willis Vajen cottage and will have it remodeled before the season opens.

16 June 1904 - Geo. B. Yandes and neices Misses Robinson of Indianpolis have opened their cottage the Echo

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

Near Mr. Vajen's place, on the east, the Peru Club has its Club House, and here the club has bored to a depth of one hundred and sixty feet, ending in obdurate hardpan. The flow of water from some higher stratum of sand is weak, being about an eighth of an inch from a two-inch pipe. No section could be obtained.

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

Farther east, "Bay View," the Indianapolis Club House, has a good well only twenty-eight feet deep.

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

The next well is on the lot of Mr. George W. Miller, of Peru, who has built no cottage, but with his family passes the summers in a large tent. His well is fifty feet deep, and was driven by two men in three hours. The per cent. of iron in the water from this well is evidently much less than in most others near it.

1903 - Newspaper snippets mentions Shady Bluff and these two names in connection with it: Harry Wheeler - Westfield, Ill. and Robert Morrison, Indianapolis

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

South of Mormon's place J. B. Dill has a good flow, reached at a depth of twenty feet.

From the 1886 15th Annual Report to the Governor MAXINKUCKEE W. H. Thompson & S. E. Lee

The well bored by Hon. J. H. Vajen, at his beautiful place next south of Mr. Dill, was begun at a point eleven feet above the surface of the lake, and showed the following strata:

Soil and clay	6 ft.
Sand	3 ft.
Blue clay	23 ft.
Total	32 ft.

Mr. Vajen dug a well several years ago, which, on reaching a depth of eight feet, began to flow a milk-white water of about the consistency of cream, and which deposited a silicious, lime-like marl, and whitened the water of the lake for a distance of thirty feet from the water's edge. In the back part of Mr. Vajen's lot was a low. wet spot, which began to sink when the well began to flow,"and continued to sink until the white flow changed to clear, pure water. Mr. Vajen has utilized the pressure of water from his well, the stream running a ram which supplies his premises with water, and also furnishes the power which revolves the beautiful colored light at the landing pier before his gate.

High upon the hill beside the Plymouth road, about one hundred yards from the lake, and fully thirty feet above it, gushes out the "Original Spring," as it is known, which pointed the index finger toward the first flowing well. This spring pours out a four-inch stream, and the boring of wells has never diminished the flow.

Indianapolis, Indiana city directory (Volume yr.1899) by ... Bliss Henry R, sec and treas The Sinker- Davis Co, h 1817 N Meridian.

Indianapolis Blue Book 1913...Bliss Mrs Henry R (Margaret Hooker), 2905 North Meridian street, Mr Henry W Bliss...

 

VanSoiak Farm

 

W. H. Henderson of Indianapolis has purchased ground of Stephen Edwards and erected a cottage which is a model and a credit to the lake. - 7 jUL 1903 cULVER cITIZEN

Veda Foss Fitterling wrote in the biography of "Fitterlings of Culver" in the 1986 Marshall County history: "..I only remember my great Uncle who with his wife Rebecca Stoever, owned and operated the Bide-a-Wee Hotel. He taught school for a short period of time..."
There are 2 areas that could be the location refered to as Edwards Landing the first being the the area of the Halycon Club or boathouse & later the the Edwards Boathouse at Aub-bee-naub-bee creek and the other is here where the Bide-a-wee was and the Edwards familly had cottages

Cottage reported to be built after 5 April 1906 by J. O. Frerrier are: ... H/B Haymond of Indianapols on the southeast corner of the lake at a cost of $800-1000

1837 - June 30 - Land Patent to James F. D. Lanier
1846 - Francis Edwards
1880 - S. Edwards 78.80A [Stephen Edwards]
1898 - S. E. Edwards 37.73A & 40A [Stephen E. Edwards]
1898-1908 - W. J. Wood - Woodbank Cottage William Jacob Wood/Jacob Wood]

Maple Grove Farm, Also known as Maple Grove Hotel & Maple Grove Boarding House