A Hiker's Path

This past week, I traveled to Mitchel to visit Spring Mill State Park.

The park was established in 1927 and is sometimes called "a window" into Indiana's pioneer past. An original pioneer village still stands with a working grist mill that was constructed back in 1817. The park itself consists of 1,358 acres.There are other features of this park worth mentioning, including a memorial to Virgil Gus Grissom, who was the second U.S. astronaut in space.

Some of the special things that interest me about the park are its natural areas. Inside the state park are several caves and sinkholes, as well as three nature preserves : Donaldson Cave, Donaldson Woods and Mitchell Karst Plain.

George Donaldson came from Scotland and purchased the tract of forest in 1865. He would not allo

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