The Heart of a home means many things to as many people. I think it’s the little things that flash through your mind when you look back on the best times in your life-when you were home. It’s the picket fence that you need to paint again, the veggie garden in the backyard and flowers in the front, toys scattered across the driveway, neighbors waving when they drive past and the sound of laughter and music outside when you open your windows in spring. It is the love and the memories that the walls will always know, and the feet that have walked across the floors as they have grown. A house becomes a home when love lives inside.
The heart of a home will be my place to share snapshots of these images and a little of the story behind them. Some stories will be here because someone has chosen me as their realtor, and let me be a part of their journey. Some will be stories of how my own house became a home, and some will just be things I see, as I live my life, in my favorite little town, that remind me- You are never alone, when you are home.
LaFayette has so much rich history behind it, a small town, with big stories!
Yes i love the native story.coming back from Lafayette to Fort Wayne there is a Road dedicated to Tecumseh the grat chief of Shawnee.He was out to talk with Miami of Little Turtle when Gen Harrison defeated the Prophet (brother of Tecumseh)<3
Thanks for the great comment Laura! My first official comment actually! Maybe I will do a little post about that very road and story! Check back sometimes! Have a great day! :) Kristy
Native American Settlement
Early man and many Indian tribes roamed this part of the Wabash Valley before the thriving trading post of Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk was established in the eighteenth century. Known to many as “Tippecanoe”, the village thrived until 1791, when it was razed in an attempt to scatter the Indians and open the land to the new white settlers.
Seventeen years later a new Indian village was established on or near the old Keth-tip-pe-can-nunk site at the Wabash/Tippecanoe River junction. Known as “Prophet’s Town”, this village was destined to become the capitol of a great Indian confederacy — their equivalent to Washington, D.C.
The town was founded in May, 1808, when two Shawnee brothers, Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa (the Prophet), left their native Ohio after being permitted to settle on these Potawatomi and Kickapoo-held lands.