Indiana's Pleasure Restort - 1883

The Vandalia Line to Lake Maxinkuckee First Class in Every Respect.

Lake Maxinkuckee promises to become a much more famous resort, now that there is to be a first-class railroad by which the lake is reached.

George Farrington, of the Vandalia, has already contracted for the erection of a cottage beside this attractive lake and several other men of his stamp contemplate so doing.

Already a numher of people from Chicago and other cities have built club houses and summer residences there.

Certainly it is destined to become a very fashionable watering place.

This pleasure resort will be reached by the Terre Haute, Logansport and South Bend Vandalia extension, which will be opened as far as Lake Maxinknekee on Aug. 1, and which is one of the smoothest and best tracks in the State.

A citizen of Terre Haute, who is well posted as regards railroad matters, who last week made a trip over the T. H. & L. division of the Vandalia road, tells the reporter of the Terre Haute Express that he was greatly surprised at the improvement of the property. He had not been over the road for seven years. Then it was a complete wreck-unsafe to ride over - but since Mr. McKeen purchased the property he had practically rebuilt, it, cutting down grades, straightening out curves, laying heavy steel rails, putting on first-class equipment, and is rapidly bringing it up to as high a standard of excellence as the Pennsylvania railroad, which he thought was the best managed railroad in the world.

The country it runs through is very finest in the State, and he believed in the near future the Terre Haute & Logansport railroad will pay as good dividends as the Terre Haute & Indianapolis railroad does.

The Indianapolis Journal Jul 18, 1883