The Limberlost Swamp, parts of which were also known as the Loblolly Marsh, originally existed in Indiana, across 13,000 acres (53 km²) of Adams County and Jay County. The State of Indiana ( was the 19th US state admitted into the union Adams County is a county located in the US state of Indiana. As of 2000 the population was 33625 Jay County is a County located in the US state of Indiana. As of 2000 the population was 21806
According to the History of Jay County by M. W. Montgomery, published in 1864, the name Limberlost came from the following circumstance: A man named James Miller, while hunting along its banks, became lost. After various fruitless efforts to find his way home, in which he would always come around to the place of starting, he determined he would go a straight course, and so, every few rods would blaze a tree. While doing this he was found by his friends who were hunting him. Being an agile man, he was known as 'limber Jim,' and, after this, the stream was called 'Limberlost. '
The Indiana State Museum contends "The swamp received its name from the fate of Limber Jim Corbus, who went hunting in the swamp and never returned. When the locals asked where Jim Corbus was, the familiar cry was “Limber’s lost!”
The Limberlost was the location of Gene Stratton Porter's novel A Girl of the Limberlost. Gene Stratton-Porter ( August 17, 1863 &ndash December 6, 1924) was an American author amateur naturalist wildlife photographer and one of A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August 1909
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A swamp is a Wetland featuring temporary or permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water The Great Black Swamp, or simply Black Swamp, was a glacially caused Wetland in northwest Ohio, United States, extendingDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic