A unique public-private partnership has been formed to develop a 300-acre
complex featuring three museums.  The Museums At Prophetstown will be the
site of the state's official Woodland Native American Complex, a 1920s-era
living history farm, and a 220-acre environmental museum.

The Woodland Native American Complex will have a 65,000 sq. ft. museum of
Woodland Great Lakes Native American Culture.   This is being developed in
conjunction with the Prophetstown Council for Preservation of Great Lakes
Native American Culture, a 23-tribe consortium which sponsors exhibits,
workshops, pow wows, conferences and publications.   In addition, the complex
will have a reconstruction of a Middle Woodland-era Precontact Village, (AD
1000-1500) and the Prophetstown Central Village Complex (AD1808-1811.)

The Wabash Valley Living History Farm will be a typical 80-acre farm
interpreting the transition agriculture/technology of the 1920s.  The
farmstead will be a replication of the 1918 Sears & Roebuck "Perfect
Farmstead" offered for sale in their catalogue for $3,538.00!  More than
1,000 of the farmsteads were sold nationally.   Planners feel that the
farmstead will provide a good way to teach about the progressive trends in
agriculture during that period.

The Prophetstown Historic Landscape Restoration will encompass 220-acres and
will involve the restoration of the surrounding landscape to the time of
European contact.   There will be four theme areas: Prairie/grasslands,
woodlands, wetlands, and Indiana Flora Gardens.   A 25,000 sq. ft. education
pavillion will be built.

The complex will have a 20,000 sq. ft. entrance building, The Eagle Wing
Center, featuring visitor reception, orientation theater,  6,000 sq. ft. of
formal exhibits, three education areas, and a full-service restaurant.  A 12
1/2 acre Indiana wildflower tapestry will spread like a a huge flame in front
of the center.

All buildings on the complex have been designed by The Presnell Group,
Louisville, Kentucky, the largest Native American architectural firm.
 Principals have been Burke Wyatt, Potawatomi, Ken Rhyne, Tuscarora, and
David Presnell, Cherokee.

The State of Indiana has provided about $600,000 for land acquisition and
will own the 300-acre site.   In addtion, the State has also furnished
approximately $375,000 as a direct grant for project planning.   This was
matched by the Greater Lafayette Major Donors Alliance to provide an initial
corpus of approximately $700,000.  A private, not-for-profit corporation, The
Museums At Prophetstown, Inc. will raise the approximately $35 million for
development, and will own and operate the complex.

The entire 300-acre is located exactly at the center of the newly authorized,
3000-acre,  Prophetstown State Park which is located along the Wabash River
approximately 4 miles northeast of Greater Lafayette.   Interstate 65, the
direct link between Chicago and Indianapolis, forms the park's western
boundary and provides
immediate access to the park.

Development will begin in the summer of 1998 and Phase I (The Eagle Wing
Center, The Wabash Valley Living History Farm, large portions of the historic
landscape restoration, and the Prophetstown Village) will open in the summer
of 2000.   Phase II (the Woodland Great Lakes Native Amreican Cultural Center
and the Middle Woodland Village) will begin in the summer of 2000 and open in
the summer of 2003.

For more information contact, Nick Clark, Executive Director, Museums At
Prophetstown, Inc., 22 N. Second Street, Lafayette, Indiana, 47901 -
(765-423-4617) or see the website at:
   http://www.dcwi.com/~prophet/Welcome.html