LEDWIDGE

NAME: Ledwidge COUNTY: Perry ROADS: 4WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: cold winters/humid hot summer BEST TIME TO VISIT: spring/fall

COMMENTS: A few residents, take hwy 216 into Pleasant Valley. At the end of Pleasant Valley take a right up Wye mountain. Keep following main road until you see a small chapel on the right, the road splits. Take a left and follow the road to the dead end and take a left and you will come out on a dirt road. Follow it to the end of the Fourche LaFave river. You are in downtown Ledwidge. REMAINS: A couple of graves, house foundations

Italian immigrants moved here and at one time the town had a train depot, general store, post office, school house. The town was destroyed by a massive flood in the 50's.

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