Paoli, IN / Indiana Pioneer Mothers' Memorial (#0292)

Almost hidden in the forest is this memorial. I happened to know about it from a Flickr picture I came across in the past, but there was no mention of the memorial on the trail into the park or in literature about Paoli. When I first started hiking into the forest, I passed a woman and we chatted, but she didn’t know the location of the memorial. When I had hiked the road/trail to its end, I saw two more trails leading off into dense woods, but nothing indicating which trail to take or how much further to go. Exasperated, I was heading out when there was a couple walking towards me (I had seen no one else in the forest) and I asked them if they knew anything about the wall. They were very helpful, pointing me to the right trail and giving me a general estimate of how far to go.

The woods were so dense that I didn’t see any hint of the wall for quite some time, but began to see it above the trail (this picture)