Logansport (#0207)

After South Bend I headed south down the center of the state towards Bloomington. One of my interests is the history of the use of canals and rivers for transportation, so my plans were to see what I could find about the Wabash & Erie Canal. I would be visiting Delphi (later pictures) which has a park on the canal, but the canal had been important for Logansport and that was on my way to Delphi, so I stopped there. I could not find any remaining indicators of the canal in Logansport, but it did add to my thoughts about the visible effects of the economy in Indiana.

The older center city part of Logansport did not seem to fit with what I saw in many other parts of the state, it did not show signs of being commercially successful and, as indicated by this picture, there were a number of buildings that looked abandoned.