Before any man-made lights dotted the nightscape of Newton County, Indiana, before the trails turned to paved roads and the woods were replaced with rows of crops, there was a lake. This wasn't some little back-country pond, it was at one time the largest body of water in the entire state. By some historical estimates it was ten miles long, 7 miles wide and fourteen feet in depth in certain spots, covering around 36,000 acres. The original settlers called it Beaver Lake, or j
