Lodge & Conference Center
bears do like to wallow. But the last bear in the county was reportedly killed around 1847.
Just like the bears of Brown County, there are still places and settlements that were but are no more. Many of these places were centered around a church, a school, a post office, or a general store. Places like Sherman, a village that once existed on Salt Creek. In 1900 it had a post office, a one room school, a church, a general store, and a few residents. Then in 1917 it was struck by a tornado and swept away, never to be rebuilt.
Another small town that has been erased from Brown County was not a victim of natural disaster, but a sacrifice to a large public works project. Elkinsville was founded in the 1850s. Because of its location it became a thriving center of trade in the southwest corner of the county and stayed that way until 1964 when it was evacuated by the Army Corps of Engineers and submerged under the waters of the newly built Lake Monroe.
There are more lost and abandoned settlements nestled in the woods of Yellowwood State Forest and Hoosier National Forest. They can be identified by the stacked rock piers of old log cabins, the foundations of one room schools, and the graves of the pioneers who worked to settle our once wild and wooly county. They should not be forgotten. •
Lodge & Conference Center
Located across from the NEW Brown County Music Center
• Balcony Rooms
• Restaurant • Lounge
• Enclosed Pool
• Conference facility for up to 500 people 560 State Road 46 East, Nashville, IN 812-988-2284 • SeasonsLodge. com
July / August 2019 • Our Brown County 63