Prophetstown State Park commemorates a Native American village founded in 1808 by Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa north of present-day Lafayette, Indiana, which grew into a large, multi-tribal community. The park features an open-air museum at Prophetstown, with living history exhibits including a Shawnee village and a 1920s-era farmstead. Battle Ground, Indiana, is a village about a mile east of the site of the Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811, a crucial battle in Tecumseh's War which ultimately led to the demise of Prophetstown. The state park was established in 2004 and receives about 335,000 visitors annually. Construction of the aquatic park began in October 2012 and was completed in 2013 after lobbying by local officials to drive more visitors to the park and Tippecanoe County.
The Farm at Prophetstown is a non-profit organization that rents approximately from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to show farming life as it was in the 1920s.
Facilities and activities
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- Historic Prophetstown farmstead, a 1920s living history farm.
- Woodland Indian settlement with replicas of a Shawnee council house and medicine lodge
- Hiking trail ()
- Bicycle trail ()
- Interpretative naturalist services
- Picnic areas and shelters
- Camping, with 110 campsites and a dumping station
References
External links
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources' official Web page
- The Farm at Prophetstown