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Mohawk Indiana | The township where I live is described in a local history book published in the late 1800’s as a meandering swamp.
Local lore says that sometime in the latter part of the 19th century the Supreme Court ruled that every one in a watershed had to help pay the maintenance to keep the water moving downstream.
When this happened landowners upstream could no longer just run their water to the next place down stream but they had to pay to keep it moving.
At that point the meandering swamp could be drained because it didn’t have to hold all of the upstream water.
Our township was then tiled and became very productive. Land that had pretty much been worthless became valuable.
Does anyone know anything about the Supreme Court ruling that made this possible?
I don’t think that the case was specific to our situation, we just benefited because of it.
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History of drainage districts, watersheds, etc ?
