6/6/2023 0 Comments Little big adventure clovers![]() Ella Rickenbaugh served as the postmaster from 1880-1895 and from 1905-1940. The house served as a dwelling, but also as a post-office from 1880-1951. The entrance to the Celina Lake Recreation Area is about 2.3 miles south of St. Getting there is easy, travel south on State Road 37 through St. The house was built by Jacob Rickenbaugh in 1874 and has been preserved as an interpretive center. Rickenbaugh House My next stop was the Rickenbaugh House, located on the northern edge of Lake Celina in the Indian-Celina Lake Recreation Area. All that’s left of the community today is the cemetery. The last known resident was William Thomas, who sold the land in 1902. After the end of the Civil War, the population began to dwindle. Around 1860, 260 African Americans lived at or near the Lick Creek African American Settlement. Black Americans had established the community around 1820. The cemetery’s informal name comes from the Lick Creek African American Settlement which was a 19th century African American community in rural Orange County. ![]() The United States Forest Service has a great map here with more detail (pdf). The road will eventually end at the Lick Creek Trail head. Before you get to Chambersburg, turn south on Grease Gravy Road (yes, that’s its real name). To get there, travel south out of Paoli on US Route 150 toward Chambersburg. The Little Africa Cemetery, known officially as the Thomas and Roberts Family Cemetery, is located deep in the heart of the HNF, just south of Paoli. ![]() Little Africa Cemetery Of all the locations in the HNF that I visited this summer, this was the hardest to find. Like my other excursions into the forest, this trip provided a wonderful adventure into the very heart of Indiana’s great Hoosier National Forest. For my fifth and final trip into the Hoosier National Forest, I visited the Little Africa Cemetery, Buzzard Roost, the Rickenbaugh House, and Clover Lick Barrens.
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