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Lake Maxinkuckee is the second largest lake in Indiana.It is located in southwestern Marshall County and the town of Culver is nestled around its northern and western shores. It is oblong in shape, approximately three miles long and two and a quarter miles wide; it covers an area said to be 1,864 acres and its shoreline is of about ten miles of lake front. Volume of the lake is 14,858 million gallons of water or 45,600 acre feet. Normal average water level elevation is 733.12 feet mean sea level. Surface area: 1,864 acres (754 ha) Average depth: 24 ft (7 m) Max depth: 88 ft (27 m) Type: Natural spring fed. It is of almost every type of terrain from level beach, gradual slope, steep incline, abrupt bluff, rounded headland; elevation from waters edge to nearly fifty feet in places. Jim Weirick has added this 'Water Fact' that every one inch of rain strickly from the sky onto Lake Maxinkuckee equals 75 million gallons of water in the lake; asked how he learned this he replied "I simply done the math"
No exact date has been found as to when the Indians came to the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. The earliest inhabitants of the lake were the mound builders, then the Pottawattomie or Miami tribes. One says that the Potawatomi or Miami built several mounds on the banks of the lake, the largest being Pare Mound. The Pare Mound is located on the east side in front of the Culver Homestead. It was cut in half by the road. It is believed to be constructed as a pilot mound - a reference point for location by the natives rather than a burial mound. The mound on the west side of the lake has little evidence that it ever existed on Long Point. After the Mound builders the area around the lake was controlled by the Miami and the Pottawattomie who belonged to the great Alonquin family; were allowed to occupy the area and finally was recognized as the 'owners'
Web Site Created: 25 May 2005 But the research began: This project was started back in August/September 1990 and then got put on hold for the next fifteen years. It does not seem like it was nineteen years ago I started this - back then it was just a word files and typewritten and just ideas formulating. Purpose: The preserve the History, folklore of Lake Maxinkuckee, and Culver Thanks to those such as Marcia Adams, Mrs. Bramfeld who have given me words of priase and encouragement on the site when I have seen them in places in Culver - - it was much needed, appreciated and gives me the encouragement to go on with the site. Much research is needed to connect all the dots or the pieces of the lake cottages and properties that are listed in the various plat maps a good source or starting part would be the remaining abstracts of cottage and/or property abstracts if they still exist.
Let me know of any broken links, pages that you can not see the main body of test. Also any blank pages - as major computer malfunction from March/April when Moved site - to when it went "DEAD end of August 2008 - Blank pages and miss-alignment resulted when "golbal replacement was used and it "froze-up" - PLEASE I will gladly grin and bear the critism - :)
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