My grandparents lived on Ellison Road in rural southwest Allen County, Indiana. When we drove to grandpa's house when I was a kid, we would look for the Turtle Rock next to the railroad track that crosses Ellison Road. This gigantic rock has stood by the tracks for decades. My father says it was there when he was a kid. It probably fell off of a railroad car decades ago.

The stream next to the tracks is one of the surviving portions of the old Wabash and Erie Canal, which once connected Fort Wayne's rivers to the Wabash River. This allowed boats to travel from the great lakes to the Ohio River and the Mississippi. When Railroads made the old canal obsolete, the tracks were built on the canal's towpath, and most parts of the canal were eventually filled in.

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by Christopher Crawford

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