MAY 11, 1814

200 years ago today William Logan and his son, Ezekiel D. Logan, were concerned about the lack of roads in their recently created county of residence in the Indiana Territory. When William and Sarah Grantham Logan came to the Indiana Territory from North Carolina by way of the Cumberland Gap and the Wilderness Road, they nning from the Wabash villages southeast to the trading post at Tully’s Town (Springville) between the Knobs and the Ohio River. The land selected was in Clark County at the time and the seat of government had recently been moved from Jeffersonville to Charlestown in 1808. The trail gave them access to the county seat and also the Falls of the Ohio. When their land soon became part of Harrison County, there was no direct route to get to Corydon so hopefully there was no need for a court. When Indian depredations occurred on Walnut Ridge and the Driftwood River in 1811/1812, the trail was a liability and a stockade/fort was built on their land just southwest of present day Kossuth. Now that the risk of Indian attack had subsided after Tippecanoe and the Mississenwa campaigns and as Salem was to become the seat of government closer to the Logans, the need for a better road was essential. The Logans had heard that neighbors north of the Muscatatuk were going to petition the Washington Circuit Court judges for the blazing of a road to Salem. They hoped that such a road would cross over the eastern part of their homestead. selected a location on a ridge where it was traversed by the Indian trail running from the Wabash villages southeast to the trading post at Tully’s Town (Springville) between the Knobs and the Ohio River. The land selected was in Clark County at the time and the seat of government had recently been moved from Jeffersonville to Charlestown in 1808. The trail gave them access to the county seat and also the Falls of the Ohio. When their land soon became part of Harrison County, there was no direct route to get to Corydon so hopefully there was no need for a court. When Indian depredations occurred on Walnut Ridge and the Driftwood River in 1811/1812, the trail was a liability and a stockade/fort was built on their land just southwest of present day Kossuth. Now that the risk of Indian attack had subsided after Tippecanoe and the Mississenwa campaigns and as Salem was to become the seat of government closer to the Logans, the need for a better road was essential. The Logans had heard that neighbors north of the Muscatatuk were going to petition the Washington Circuit Court judges for the blazing of a road to Salem. They hoped that such a road would cross over the eastern part of their homestead.