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| | Wabash River Heritage Corridor Commission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The prospect of a downhill run, whether in slender canoe or heavy piroque, would be dampened by the need to complete the nine mile portage, literally dragging everything you needed to survive, and to push through a wetland labyrinth, searching for the sluggish westward flow. |
 | | Armed with a court-approved contract, over the objections of many landowners, an association of residents straightened the river, blasted away impediments and completed the ditching of the entire valley during the late 1880's. |
 | | Today the flat Little river valley, from the portage summit to Huntington, is a geometric crazy quilt of wetlands, wet forest and neighboring fertile fields broken by arrow-straight streams fed by drainage pumps lifting water from the fields over earthen dikes. |
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