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<\/a><\/p>\nWe can see in the lower right near the gray star that the building, now demolished, which was known as Kingery Hall and was at that time the Normal School \u2013 has arrived on campus.<\/p>\n
The red star shows the new home of Henry Crawford a local merchant. This old house is now the home of the Lambda Chi fraternity. The land behind the home was known as Crawford\u2019s Woods and used by students and townspeople for picnics and gatherings.<\/p>\n
The gold star shows the new home of Mr. and Mrs. Atlas Minor Hadley. He was a member of the class of 1852 and the principal of the prep school. The house was purchased in the 1920s by George and Yvonne Kendall from Mrs. Hadley. The Kendalls greatly improved the home and later donated it to the college. This home is now known as the Kendall House. It sits in the nook created by the natatorium of the Allen Center.<\/p>\n
The black star in the middle\u00a0 of our 1864 atlas marks Forest Hall which was moved from its original location a few blocks north. Caleb Mills had purchased the original college building along with Williamson Dunn\u2019s 15 acres of donated land for $1,050.<\/p>\n
North of the campus, near the large blue star, we see the cemetery which was owned by Caleb Mills. In 1864 Pike Street ended at the original plat of the town with West Street which we now call Grant Avenue. This graveyard is shown on various maps as the Crawfordsville Cemetery, the Presbyterian Cemetery, the Mills Cemetery and the Town cemetery. Whatever it was called, it was here that the founders, early friends and faculty of Wabash College were buried.<\/p>\n
When Pike Street opened to the west, the graves in the right of way were moved to the Masonic Cemetery on south Grant Street. In the late 1870s the rest of the family plots were moved to the newly opened Oak Hill Cemetery. Each family plot was opened and the families were all moved together to the \u201cWabash section\u201d at Oak Hill Cemetery.<\/p>\n
In 1862 the Trustee minutes record that \u201cProfessor Mills made a generous offer to donate certain property to the trustees of the college, consisting of the Crawfordsville Cemetery and certain adjacent land, together with the building known as Forest Hall.\u201d The Executive Committee later recommended that the Board of Trustees accept Mills\u2019 offer of the old college building, with no further mention of Mills\u2019 Cemetery or other land.<\/p>\n
All of the land owned by Caleb Mills was sold by his heirs following his death. Indeed, most of the lots in the west end of town were a part of Mills\u2019 holdings. The family kept the house on campus until the late 1920\u2019s, at which time they gave it to the college as a home for their presidents.<\/p>\n
The college, in 1864, was on its way to becoming the Wabash that we know today. The Civil War years were a trial to the college, yet Wabash held on and emerged stronger. Next time I will share a bit about the expansion of the Wabash College facilities in the 1870\u2019s, a banner decade for “Dear Old Wabash.”<\/p>\n
Best,<\/p>\n
Beth Swift<\/p>\n
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