Liberty Mills is an unincorporated community on the Eel River in Chester Township, Wabash County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
[5] These negotiations, led by Michigan Governor Lewis Cass, resulted in the Paradise Springs Peace Treaty.
"John Comstock in his day was easily the biggest and most influential business man and farmer in Northern Wabash county.
In fact, it was not uncommon in telling the history of an early North Manchester business man to mention that he first located in Liberty Mills.
In time North Manchester flourished (The population was 6,260 at the 2000 census[2]) while Liberty Mills remained unchanged in size.
Comstock was instrumental however in bringing the Detroit, Eel River & Illinois Railroad through the community in 1871, which stretched from Logansport to Butler, Indiana.
Because of its location on a curvy tack of the Eel River, Liberty Mills has been home to numerous bridges, three standing today.
[12] Liberty Mills was home to a crib dam on the Eel River, located directly south of the existing iron bridge on 1st Street.
In 1872, on the northeast corner of Mill and Fourth Street, a two-story building was built to serve as a school and town hall.
The Herbert L. Taylor Audubon Preserve is located on the northeast edge of town, stretching along the east side of the Eel River.
[15] Taylor built a unique structure known as the “Tee Pee”, a three-story house in the shape of an Indian teepee which overlooked the Eel River.
A legend also follows the access site of a particular fatal car wreck which ejected several girls from a vehicle, whose screams can be supposedly still heard today.
Kindy owns a farm one mile east of Liberty Mills, has traveled the world with CPT including Iraq, where he is noted in the May 17, 2004, issue of New Yorker Magazine.