Peter Surprise, born a French Canadian in 1794, moved to Lake County in 1833 and built a log cabin home along Cedar Creek, southeast of Cedar Lake. He died in 1903, at the age of 109. His was the first white family to live among the Pottawatomie Indians in Pleasant Grove (now Lake Dalecarlia).
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This unidentified newspaper photo and caption was found on the Surprise CD-Rom created by Janet Umlauf
