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Marker Details
- Title, side A
- Gist Settlement
- Title, side B
- Same
- Sponsors
- Ohio Bicentennial Commission, The P & G Fund, and The Ohio Historical Society
- Address
- Gist Settlement Cemetery, Gist Settlement RoadNew Vienna, 45159
- Location
- At intersection of Gist Settlement Road and Rollins Lane
- Latitude
- 39.3133430
- Longitude
- -83.6486570
- Subjects
- Amusement Parks, Russells Point
Picture Details
- Title
- Indian Lake
- Caption
- Indian Lake was built between 1850 and 1857 as a feeder lake for the Miami and Erie Canal. It was known as Lewistown Reservoir until 1896, when the lake was purchased by the state of Ohio for a state park. In the 1920s, S. L. Wilgus built an amusement park on the shore of the lake near Russell's Point. Attractions included a boardwalk along the lake and a roller coaster. The park closed in the 1970s (AL06157).