Hamlet of Indiana ~

Site of Several Mills on the Grand River, Indiana

Indiana grew from the saw and flour mills and distillery built by Director of the Grand River Navigation Company, David Thompson.

"The Towing-path from its commencement near Cayuga to Indiana is finished." ~ An Engineer's Report from 1835, included in Bruce Emerson Hill's book, The Grand River Navigation Company.

Remnants of the Canal & Towing Path Remain

"The inland cut from Indiana to Dam No. 1, is finished."  Indiana had a population of over two hundred and fifty people and was the site of seven mills, a lumber camp and saw mill, a stove factory, a pail factory, two distilleries as well as other businesses."  [As well as several pubs, we are told.]  A fire in the hamlet threateded its existence in July, 1857.

*Brant Historical Society, 1994, Image Quest, printing by Brant Service Press.

Mark Twain *~ "I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way:  by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else. . .
We have no permanent habits until we are forty.  Then they begin to harden, presently they petrify, then business begins.  Since forty I have been regular about going to bed and getting up ~ and that is one of the main things.  I have made it a rule to go to bed when there wasn't anybody left to sit up with; and I have made it a rule to get up when I had to.  This has resulted in an unswerving regularity of irregularity.  It has saved me sound, but it would injure another person.
In the matter of diet ~ which is another main thing ~ I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it."

~ * (1835 - 1910) "A Severely Moral Life," a speech at a dinner, Delmonico's Restaurant, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1905. Mark Twain, An Illustrated Biography, Geoffrey Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, Knopf,2001.
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