Whitewater Canal, Metamora

CENTRAL REGION

FALL 2020 – SUMMER 2021

WHITEWATER CANAL

Water Wheels and Canal Boat

Begin your trip to the Whitewater Canal State Historic Site by experiencing the Metamora Grist Mill like never before. Discover the mill’s history from its beginnings to today, and see for yourself how the mill grinds corn into flour, meal and grits – just as it has since the 1800s! Then, try milling grains yourself with a hand-powered grinder or learn how millers secured their sacks of flour by trying your hand at tying a miller’s knot. Children can explore our brand-new transportation discovery space. Learn how Hoosiers used to move from here to there on our wooden canal and train table, chart your course throughout Indiana with an interactive map or pack a model canal boat full of crates and merchandise before its journey to Cincinnati.

Early transportation, internal improvements, 19th-century engineering, simple machines Located nearby the Grist Mill

10973 Main St., Metamora, IN 47030 765.647.6512 whitewatercanalshs@indianamuseum.org indianamuseum.org/whitewater

SCHOOL GROUP TOURS

K-GRADE 12 May–October Fee: Admission is FREE for pre-registered, accredited schools or homeschool groups of 10 or more K-12 students. Free admission includes teachers and bus drivers, plus one additional adult chaperone per every five students. Additional chaperones pay the group admission rate of $6/person. Contact site for non-Indiana student rate. Pre-registration required at least two weeks in advance. Your school group tour takes students on a 25-minute boat ride on the Ben Franklin III Canal Boat through the only wooden aqueduct left in America.

SCHOOL PROGRAMS

45-60 minute programs Pre-registration required at least two weeks in advance.

GRIST MILL IN ACTION K-Grade 12 Fee: $2/student See an authentic working grist mill in action! Watch and learn as a staff member takes you through the process of how shelled corn is ground and turned into a food product used to make corn grits and corn meal. Touch a grinding stone identical to the ones grinding the corn.

ROPE MAKING K-Grade 12 Fee: $2/student Engage your students with a hands-on rope making activity to learn about the importance of ropes and canal boats. This jump-rope-sized rope can be taken home. THE HOW-TO’S OF HARNESS HITCHING K-Grade 12 Fee: $2/student Get up close and learn how to harness-hitch our Belgian horses to better understand how they pull the Ben Franklin III Canal Boat along the canal.