Prophetstown State Park

Prophetstown State Park is a state park near Battle Ground, Tippecanoe County in the U.S. state of Indiana. The park is 8.1 square kilometers and was opened in 2004. Thus, it is the youngest State Park of Indiana. The park is home to the open-air museum of Prophetstown. The museum consists of the reconstruction of an Indian village and a farm from the 1920s.

The name was given to the park of the former Indian settlement Prophetstown, which lay nearby. Prophetstown, even Tippecanoe is, again according to the Shawnee prophet Tenskwatawa ( " The Prophet" ) named the brother of the famous Indian leader Tecumseh.

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