Here's a little bit of the early history of Walkerton-
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Here is a list of the famous people from town-
Then there's this little bit of Info, I haven't been able to find much about it though -
- Harold C. Urey (1893–1981), winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of deuterium, was born in Walkerton.
- Walter LaFeber (b. 1933), noted historian of American foreign relations, was born in Walkerton.
- Chad Blount, NASCAR Nationwide Series driver
- Lucas Runyan, First State Cross Country Qualifier
6. WALKERTON, INDIANA:
Eight giants 8 to 9 feet tall, all in copper armour - 1925 (Frank Edwards, Strange World, p.98)
Supposedly in the '20's some people were digging in a indian burial mound close to town and found some giant skeletons. They removed them and all the artifacts, stored them in a old grist mill, which just happened to get washed away in the late '20's during a flood.
Rarely end up in that boomtown but have more than a handful of relatives that moved from the area of Plymouth/LaPorte (Swan Lake-ish) to where it turns into Walkerton Trail to the Tyner Cemetery. Not my idea of an exciting family reunion but quite a few of them were Oddfellows.