Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue
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Culver, Marshall, Indiana

1922 Plat Map list of Cottagers & Property Owners East Shore

1922 Plat Map list of 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 1922 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 of thelake 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 pratial listing from sources during this time period - and based on known facts of 1922, 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.

This area covers partpart of Academy, East Shore and the East Shore Lane
and I have subdivided the east shore into 4 sections the north and south half and then further down as illustrated below

Culver Place

1922 - Henry Harrison Culver Homestead

- on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Laura M. Culver (Mrs. Knight K.)- 6.50

This is now the goly course club house

1837 - 10 August - William Thompson
1876 - G. Peoples [George Peeples/George Peoples]
1898 - R. Mc Keen
1908 - ?Mc Keen?
1922 - 1927 A. W. & H. W. Wagner [Albert W. Wagner & Harriet W. Wagner]

1922 - Laura M. Culver

Sometime between this plat map the road in this following area - changed dramtically - the map found proposing it is dated 6 Oct 1927 if it is read correcly in the lower right hand corner. The blue is the original road and the red is the proposed change.

And here you can find the large one that shows the property owners at the time - mainly the Vonneguts, and also at the very bottom shows the Bay View Club lots.

1908 - Geo. Vonnegut [George Vonnegut]
on east side of St. Rd. 117 - 1922 - Lot - Emma Vonnegut 11-90a

easement to lake

House of A 1000 Candles - 762 East Shore Drive 1922 - Lot 1 - May B. Potts
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot - Mary B. Potts

1922 - Lot 2 - Bernard Vonnegut
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot - N. Vonnegut
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot - Clemans Vonneguut Jr.

1922 - Lot 3 - Emma Vonnegut
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot Emma Vonnegut

1922 - Lot 4 - Vonnegut & Mueller built 1907
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot - N. Vonnegut
     on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Lot - Mueller Inv. Co.

Hilarity Hall " 1922 - Lot 5 - Mueller R. E. & Inv. Co./Mueller Inv. & Realty Co.

House of a Thousand Candles
1922 - Lot 6 - Maud Wolf

Peru Club Lot
1922Lot 8 - Lot 8 - J. S. & Alma Kittle [John Sloane Kittle]

Peru Club
1922 - Lot 9 - Lilla E. Ketcham

Peru Club lot
1922 - Lillie Deming

1880 - Rector & Thomas ?
1898 - Bay View Club ?
1900 - J. W. Smith

Bay View Club
1922 - E. B. Porter's Sub. - No Names
Lot 1
Lot 2
Lot 3
Lot 4
Lot 5
Lot 6

Easement to lake listed as alley

1898 - A. Brunner ?
1900 - George E. Miller
1908 - Miller

In 1886 from the 15th Annual Report to the Governor was an article on Maxinkuckee by W. H. Thompson and 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.

1922 - G. E/L. Miller

1898 - G. Peeples
1900 - M. M. Millken
1908 - ?Methagth?_
1922 - ?. M. Mill_gah?

Shady Bluff
1898 - R. Wheeler??

1900 - Wm. E. Wheeler

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

1908 - Wheeler? Est.
1922 W/N. E. Wheeler

1898 - O. Miller
1900 - Gideon W. Blase/Blain & wife Florence 1908 - un-readable
1922 - G. W. Blain [Gideon W. Blain & wife Florence]

An internet search has brought up this on Gideon W. Blain - He was an 1895 graduated of Plymouth High School and noted as being a lawyer in Indianapolis.

The Search of WPA records brings up: Gideon W. Blain age 28 b. c. 1876 s/o John W. and Eva H. (Westervelt) Blain; Florence H. Smith d/o John W. and Ida E. (Root) Smith - marriage application 28 Se[. 1904 Marshall county Indiana Bk. H-D pg. 35.

U.S. Military Records, 1925: Official National Guard Register - Name: Gideon W Blain - State / District: Indiana - Rank: Lt Col -Page #: 247 - Regiment: 38 Div - Company: J A Sec - Birthplace: Ind - Birth Date: 10 Feb 1877 .

1900 he was listed in Ann Arbor Ward 6, Washtenaw, Michigan and was listed as being from Plymouth, Ind. and a student.

1910 Census Indianapolis Ward 4, Marion, Indiana : Gideon W Blain 33 - Florence H Blain 29 - Eleanor Blain 4 - Evangeline Croft 19.
1920 Indianapolis Ward 3, Marion, Indiana: Gedeon Blain 42 - Florence Blain 39 - Elenor Blain 14 - Luciele Malott 18 - Jane Alborn 11.
1930 Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana: Gedeon W Blaine 53 - Florence S Blaine 49 - Anna Hushaw 18

Henry Bliss Photo Album - The photograph titled "Shady Bluff South Side" (the two boys with two dogs on the beach) is actually taken from the south side of Shady Bluff showing the north and lake side of our cottage, 1040 East Shore Drive, which was owned by the Wheeler heirs and then was purchased about 1913 by Gideon and Florence Blain, our grandparents. - Mary Stuart Clark, Margot Helms Maxinkuckee August 1994.

1922 - Lot 1 - Annie R. Heller

In 1886 from the 15th Annual Report to the Governor was an article on Maxinkuckee by W. H. Thompson and S. E. Lee

At Highland House, the property of Mrs. Judge Hiller, the well is thirty-three feet deep, though the flow of water was as strong when the first sand was reached at a depth of thirteen feet.

The first well driven at this place to a depth of only thirteen feet obtained so strong a flow that the water could not be confined. The enormous pressure burst through all restraint, and rose in a column six or seven inches thick. This at once stopped the wells which turned Mr. Morman's ram a hundred feet away. The well was finally plugged up, when Mr. Morman's wells again began to flow.

1904 -Lot #2 - John H. Vagen.
      1904 - Sep. 1912 Alfred M. Ogle
        Sep. 1912 1/2 Lot # 2 - Charles C. Perry
        Sep. 1912 1/2 Lot # 2 Elizabeth Marmon
1922 - Lot 2 1922 - E. Marmon [Elizabeth C. Marmon]
     1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Elizaberh Marmon 12.27a

1922 - Lot _ - 1922 - James E. Heller est.

1878 J. E. Heller and other men from Indianapolis started the Highland House. but the idea was abandoned. He remodeled it and into a house and used it as a summer residence until he died. It is said his son E. W. Heller built a permanent cottage on it about 1933.

1922 - Lot 3 - Elizabeth C. Marmon

1922 - Lot 4 - Elizabeth C. Marmon

1922 - Lot 5 - Chas. C. & C. A. Perry
     1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - John H. Vagin 57.3A

easement to lake - listed as road

1922 - Lot 6 - Eliab. Crawford [Elizabeth Crawford]
     1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - M. F. Louden
     1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - W. Hunt
     Rector House/Rector Hotel
     1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Sarah A. Rector 22.10a

1922 - L. B. Martin est. [Lewis B. Martin] - Martin Box

Indiana Day was celebrated Sept. 27, 1893, at the fair. More than 100,000 Hoosiers attended, with an organized group from Terre Haute, including Lewis B. Martin, banker. Lewis B. Martin, 1841- , secretary and general manager of the Terre Haute Savings Bank, Terre Haute, Indiana, prominent member of the Masonic order and a Knight Templar.

1922 - Lot 7 - L. B. Martin est. [Lewis B. Martin]

1922 - Lot 8 - W. B. Steele [Worth B. Steele]
1922 - Julia T. English [ part also across the shirk property at road edge]

1922 - Milton Shirk
1922 Milton Shirk [across Milton Shirk property at road edge]

1922 - Milton Shirk

1922 - Gut T. Bigley

1922 on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Dow Rector

Maxinkuckee Landing

The East side Historic District - the official recording of this is: Also known Lake Maxinkuckee Historic District - - Roughly, E Shore Dr. from W. 18th Rd., to the E turn of IN 117, including Maxinkuckee Club, Culver. But a map I found expands it further north of the landing.

easement to lake - and 18th Rd. going east from St. Rd. 117

1922 - Sea Beach Place Subdivision (1898)
     1922 - Lots 1 & 2
     1922 - Lots 3 & 4
     1922 - Lots 5
     1922 - Lot 6
     1922 - Lot 7 & 8
     1922 - Lot 9 &10

1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 extends these Lots of Sea Beach Place Maxinkuckee Golf Course - 9.07

     1922 - easement to lake

     1922 - Lot 10
     1922 - Lot 11
     1922 - Lot 12 Chas. E Coffin [Charles E. Coffin]
     1922 - Lot 13
     1922 - Lot 14
     1922 - Lot 5
     1922 - Lot 16
     1922 - Lot 17
     1922 - Lot 18 - 1922 - J. Schaf [Joseph Charles Schaf]

1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 extends these Lots of Sea Beach Place & the J. Schaff lake lot next Lot 3 - Chas. E. Coffin

1922 - J. Schaff

1922 - Wm. W. Windslow/Winlsow

1922 - A. M. Glossbrenner [Alfred M. Glossbrenner]

1900 - F. M. Harwood
1908 - Manwood
1922- W. Manwood - could this possibly be "Manna"?

1880-1898 - Halycon Club - H. B. Scott 34.50A
Edwards Boat House
1922 - R. A. Edwards & wife [Richard A. Edwards]
     1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 - No Name
     1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 - J. & Barlett [Bartlett]
     1922 - lot 4 - Mitchell Burkett 12.51a

There are 2 areas that could be the location refered to as Edwards Landing this being the first and the other is the area down around the E. Shore Lane where the Bide-a-wee was and the Edwards familly had cottages

Aub-bee-naub-bee creek

1908 - Buck
1922 - W & K Sarber
1908 - no name
1908 - no name
1908 - no name
1922 - M. L. Helms

1908 - no name
1922 - A. B. Edwards

1908 - no name
1922 - Bates

1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Charlotte Bates 5.55a - spans the Saber, Helms, Edward & Bates Lots in wideth.

Logansport Settlement
     1922 - Lot 6 & 5
     1922 - Lot 4, 3, & 2
     1922 - Lot 1

?easement to lake?

1922 - on east side of St. Rd. 117 - Hervey Bates 5a - spans the Logansport Settlement & easement in wideth

1922 - S. L. Purcell

1922 - Mary S. Judah

1898 - H. E. Schroyer
1900 - Helen Shroyer
1908 - H/M. Schroyer
1922 - H/M. Schroyer

1900 - Harry C. Adams [Henry C. Adams]

1908 - H. C. Adams [Harry/Henry C. Adams]
1906 - Maxwell Retreat sold by Jerome Stevenson to Furgeson of Logansport?
1922 - F. D. Ferguson

1898 - Rice & Vaughn
1898 - Rice & Vaughn
1900 - Rice & Vaughn
1908 - Rice [Frank M. Rice] & Vaughn [Sidney A. Vaughn]
1922 - Vaughan

1908 - A. W. [Henry W. Mordhurst?]
1922 - Henry W. Mordhurst

1922 - Henry W. Mordhurst

1863-1880 - L. T. Van Shoiack [Louden T. Van Shoiak]
     owned 1/2 mile of lake front & 200 Acres to the east, 105.80a in 1880
1898 - L. T. Van Shoiack [Louden T. Van Shoiak] - [non lake property 45.70A &59.98]

VanSoiak Farm
1922- VanShoiack Subdivision 2nd [Louden T. VanShoiack
     1922 - Lot 1 H. W. Mordhurst? there is a "tie" mark to Lot 1 H. W. Mordhusrt 58a.
     1922 - Lot 2 - 2044 E. Shore
     1922 - Lot 3 - 2044 E. Shore
     1922 - Lot 4 - ? - May 1893 Lot #4 - John F. & Mary Wallick, sold for $2000.
        May 1893 - ? - A. M. Ogle [Alfred M. Ogle]
     1922 - Lot 5 -
     1922 - Lot 6 - 2100 E. Shore Dr.
     1922 - Lot 7 - 2100 E. Shore Dr.
     1922 - Lot 8 - 2100 E. Shore Dr.
     1922 - Lot 9
     1922 - Lot 10
     1922 - Lot 11
     1922 - Lot 12

1922 Wm. Van Schoiack

1922 - B. Mc Q [Eugenia B. Mc Quat]

     1922 - Lot 2 Marvin T. Louden 45A from Lot 6 of Van Shoiack's Sub to end of Van Shoiack's Sub No. 3 in wideth
     1922 - William J. Van Shoiack - medium lot - from easement to lot 5 of Van Shoiack's Sub

1922 - Henry Mordhurst ? there is a tie symbol to Lot 1 for H. W. Mordhurst of 58a./ could be an easement too

1922 - VanShoiack Subdivision [Louden T. VanShoiack owned 1/2 mile of lake front & 200 Acres to the east]
     1908 - Lot 1 - Lovina Walker Etal
     1922 - Lot 1 - H. W. Mordhurst ? there is a tie symbol to Lot 1 for H. W. Mordhurst opf 58a.
     1922 - Lot 2
     1922 - Lot 3
     1922 - Lot 4
     1922 - Lot 5
     1922 - Lot 6
     1922 - Lot 7

1922 - Mary L. Taylor [Mary Lyon Taylor]

1908 - Van Shaiacks/VanShoiack - [Louden T. VanShoiack owned 1/2 mile of lake front & 200 Acres to the east]
1922 VanShoiack Subdivision No. 3
     1922 - Lot 14
     1922 - Lot 15
     1922 - Lot 16
     1922 - Lot 17
     1922 - Lot 18
     1922 - Lot 19
     1922 - Lot 20
     1922 - Lot 21
     1922 - Lot 22
     1922 - Lot 23
     1922 - Lot 24
     1922 - Lot 25

1922 - Grato/Graty

1837 - June 30 - Land Patent to James F. D. Lanier
1846 - Francis Edwards
1880 - S. Edwards 78.80A [Stephen Edwards]
1898 - J. M. Dosser [Dresser] - Willow Springs
1908 - Irwin or Irwia
1922 - Eva S. & G. M. Sherman

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

1908 - Stephen Edwards - 72.83 a
1922 - east side of St. Rd. 117 Chester Edwards 10a & 2a west of St. Rd. 117

1908 - Stephen Edwards - 72.83 a
1922 - Cordelia Edwards - 32.83

1908 - Stephen Edwards - 72.83 a
1922 - east side of St. Rd. 117 Geo. N. & Effie Crabb 33.50a

1908 - Stephen Edwards - 72.83 a
--> 1922 - east side of St. Rd. 117 Lot 3 - no name

1837 - June 30 - Land Patent to James F. D. Lanier
1846 - Francis Edwards
1880 - S. Edwards Farm - 78.80A [Stephen Edwards]
1898 - S. E. Edwards 37.73A & 40A [Stephen Edwards]
a 1898 - No name
1908 - No Name
1922 - A & N. M. Shafer

Last updated 3.12.2009

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