INDIAN ISLAND 



island to /Ar. Henry Kahler, of Chicago, who 

 fitted up the place for a hunting and fishing re- 

 sort. In 1908 a party of Chicago sportsmen or- 

 ganized what was known as the Kankakee Val- 

 ley Hunting Club with Frank Nahser, president, 

 Dr. P. /A. Hoffman, vice-president, and Henry 

 Stevens, secretary and treasurer. The club 

 leased the hunting rights on several thousand 

 acres of swamp land and built their clubhouse 

 on Indian Island, where some of the members 

 of the club made hunting trips to this place 

 every year until the swamps were drained and 

 duck shooting became a thing of the past. Then 

 they sold the club house and it was taken down 

 and moved away. 



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