Horse and buggy travel at Canoe Station
As mentioned in earlier articles, R.W. Brooks was a prolific local writer who chronicled our area's history in a day and age when this region was only a generation removed from the pioneer settlers who laid the roads and railroad tracks through the long-leaf pines which blanketed the area.
Yet R.W. Brooks was also a minister and was pastor at several local churches during his time. Brooks came to the area as the boy clerk of the Evansville sawmill near present day Bowman Cemetery in Wawbeek.
In October 1873, Brooks and Martin Hare left home to attend the Bethlehem Association meeting at Bellev...
