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State Fish Hatchery, Brookville Indiana, 1910 Laura Minzes |
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About
1910, the Legislature approved the use of funds for the
"propagation of fish" and the Commissioner of Fisheries and
Game (George William Miles) went to work finding locations to start up
some fish hatchery operations. One of these sites was below
Brookville. A portion of the bed of the old Cincinnati and
Hagerstown canal was leased for 20 years and in this, a series of
ponds was constructed. This was not a new thing there since one
of the ponds in the canal had been used as a private fish hatchery for
many years. The first state-operated fish production there
occurred in 1911 or 1912 and consisted of smallmouth bass fingerlings
which were stocked in the Whitewater River from below Brookville up to
Connersville. At this same time, other hatchery operations were
starting up at Tri Lakes and Lake Wawasee (see: Biennial Report of the
Commissioner of Fisheries and Game, for the Fiscal Years of 1911 and
1912, pages 40-45).
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The Winans photo of the State Fish Hatchery is
attached. It is dated May 1915. It was located in the canal in front
of where Gene Stewart lives now. I probably got this from Gene Bock. I
don't think it is written anywhere. Don Dunaway
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