Metamora Indiana was a delightful little canal town. The folks in Metamora saved their town by turning it into a tourist destination because of a man made canal. The canal began in Lawrenceburg Indiana and originally ended at Cambridge City Indiana.

It is a town filled with shops, historical buildings, and for a fee, you can ride the canal boat or a train. It also has a cotton mill that was latter revamp as a gristmill. Cotton is not a main crop in Indiana.

It is a small town and easily walked. It is a tourist attraction. For 50 cents, you can buy a small cup of corn to feed the well-fed ducks. I chose not to because I was raised in the Lake of the Ozarks. I had all kinds of ducks that I fed, played with, and named.

Ducks In The Canal

The Metamora Cross

The Metamora Cross was discovered by four U.S. soldiers in a cave behind a fake wall in eastern France (Alsace-Lorraine region) in 1946.

Hans Linderman purchased the Cross from the four soldiers in 1974 in National City, California. After Lindermann’s death in 1993, the Cross was acquired by the Metamora Museum of Ethnographic Art in 1994.

It is five feet tall – free standing – and made of wood with mother of pearl inlay. Experts have dated the Cross from the 1400’s to the early 1800’s.

On the front side are carvings of Christ, the four Evangelists, a cock, skull and crossed bones, The Annunciation, the Garden of Gethsemane, the Resurrection at the tomb, St. Peter (Pierre), St. Paul, the Last Supper and Veronica’s Vail – the 6th station of the cross.

Every Cross is holy as a symbol of Jesus Christ’s suffering for all of us. This Cross is especially important because of the fourteen relics touched by the Holy Spirit.

On the reverse are the fourteen Holy Relics associated with the Fourteen Stations of the Cross.
 

Metamora, Indiana

Metamora Cemetery

August 4, 2007