Comments on: What’s in a Name? http://jlkuntz.com/2008/07/23/whats-in-a-name/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:50:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John Kuntz http://jlkuntz.com/2008/07/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-35 John Kuntz Sun, 10 May 2009 15:24:40 +0000 http://jlkuntz.com/?p=67#comment-35 Thanks so much for your comment. I know some of the landmarks you mention, but really only in passing as some of our neighbors, life-long residents of Steuben County, used to refer to them. We were relative newcomers to the area, our family moving there from Detroit in early 1947. By that time, Collins School, I believe, had been closed. Our township, Clear lake Township, paid tuition to Fremont and that is where I went for all 12 grades. As a matter of fact, we are coming back in June to attend out 50th class reunion. I am still interested in the history of the area and would like to contact you, with your permission, on occasion to check on some facts. My incomplete knowledge of the Vistula Road stems from what I learned at Fremont and it was the story usually related when explaining the name of the yearbook, The Vistula. Again, thanks for the information. John Thanks so much for your comment. I know some of the landmarks you mention, but really only in passing as some of our neighbors, life-long residents of Steuben County, used to refer to them. We were relative newcomers to the area, our family moving there from Detroit in early 1947. By that time, Collins School, I believe, had been closed. Our township, Clear lake Township, paid tuition to Fremont and that is where I went for all 12 grades. As a matter of fact, we are coming back in June to attend out 50th class reunion. I am still interested in the history of the area and would like to contact you, with your permission, on occasion to check on some facts. My incomplete knowledge of the Vistula Road stems from what I learned at Fremont and it was the story usually related when explaining the name of the yearbook, The Vistula. Again, thanks for the information.

John

]]> By: Dorris http://jlkuntz.com/2008/07/23/whats-in-a-name/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Dorris Sun, 10 May 2009 06:01:14 +0000 http://jlkuntz.com/?p=67#comment-34 When very young, I lived north of Harding's Corners, when going to Fremont we went on the Vistula Road to Snow Lake where we turned on a narrow road south to the Fremont road then east to Fremont. I attended the Collins School and remember when the Vistula was a narrow dirt road that did not follow #120 completely as some people believe.In Clear Lake Twp. , at the Brown School house, the Vistula veered north a few hundred feet, and then west again. At the west edge of Fremont , the Vistula veered north, past the Follett farm , then west again past the Dewey School house, across #27 and met at what is now # 120 on the Snow Lake curve.The Vistula continues west of Howe In. where it veers north, connecting with the Chicago Pike , U.S. 12. When very young, I lived north of Harding’s Corners, when going to Fremont we went on the Vistula Road to Snow Lake where we turned on a narrow road south to the Fremont road then east to Fremont. I attended the Collins School and remember when the Vistula was a narrow dirt road that did not follow #120 completely as some people believe.In Clear Lake Twp. , at the Brown School house, the Vistula veered north a few hundred feet, and then west again. At the west edge of Fremont , the Vistula veered north, past the Follett farm , then west again past the Dewey School house, across #27 and met at what is now # 120 on the Snow Lake curve.The Vistula continues west of Howe In. where it veers north, connecting with the Chicago Pike , U.S. 12.

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