PWP Historic Features Tour: Goshen-Logansport TRL Traditional Cache

The container is an ammo box. Please replace it in the same way as found. Please practice CITO. No caching after dark as the park. There is no charge to enter the park but a donation box is at the guest register. The park is closed after dark. Make sure to sign the guest registry and note that you are Geocaching. The registry is located at the trail entrance at the north-east corner of the parking lot. PWP is a non-profit private park. Not a county, state, Acres, or TNC property.

POTAWATOMI WILDLIFE PARK

HISTORIC FEATURES TOUR

This series of geocaches will take you on an informative tour of the abundant historic and prehistoric features that lie both within and adjacent to Potawatomi Wildlife Park.

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PWP Historic Features Tour

"The Goshen-Logansport Trail "

This cache will take you to a Goshen-Logansport Trail ford of the Tippecanoe River.

An early trail between Goshen and Logansport, this ford was located south of the Stephen Benack Potawatomi Indian Village, both which were located within the present day Potawatomi Wildlife Park.

If you walk to the canoe launch and look across to the other side, you can see signs of the trail that traveled diagonally down the hill from the south and then turned towards the river. More than a half a dozen Indian trails crossed the Tippecanoe River at this ford.

At one time there were no homesteads located between the village and the Potawatomi mill at Lake Manatou near present day Rochester.

A must read is the sign about the trail which is displayed at the Bennack Village about 100 yds north of this site. Take the trail head near the guest registry. Make sure to read all the informative displays along the way and within the village site.