History & local legend
Camp Deer Creek in Indiana Township occupies land once farmed by a man remembered as Farmer Giesy. His log house stands above the horse field, and his name survives in one of the stories told to generations of campers: that he still lives somewhere on the grounds.
Camp owner Jay Weitzel described that tradition to The Herald in January 2006. His son Wes had been restoring the cabin, uncovering hand-hewn beams and the mud-and-horsehair material packed between its logs.
The building preserved more concrete traces of the farmer as well. Giesy recorded adding a log-and-stone kitchen in 1847.
