 It's not a well-known fact if you come from the younger generation in Little Falls, but as Clayton Castle tells us in this week's Northwoods Adventure, the old ravine in Morrison County is at the heart of its history. If you're a local history buff, the Little Falls Ravine walking tour this past Saturday was right up your alley. The tour was put on by the Morrison County Historical Society and talked about the ravine that ran through the center of town in the 1800s and much of the early 20th century. Even though the ravine was filled in in the 1950s, it is still causing some issues in 2017. Whenever you have some unnatural feature that water wants to flow in, you're always going to have problems with it. And we've heard on this tour that there are still people dealing with water in their basements because Fletcher Creek is still running water down through the ravine. Mary Warner was drawn to the ravine through her research on history about the county and found that a walking tour was the best way to experience the history of the ravine. When you're doing history, so often you look at the pictures and they're flat and you try to visualize what's going on, but until you're actually in the location, it doesn't really make sense. So that, you know, we wanted to sort of give people that sense of being in a place. The tour brought out people of all ages, including 97-year-old Keith Manbeck, a World War II veteran who remembers the ravine well before it was filled in. I can remember when it wasn't filled in and it just comes down through this way and it headed down through the park and eventually into the river again. Mr. Manbeck said that while he spent a lot of the tour reminiscing about what he remembers, he also learned a lot about the ravine through stories told before his time. Some of the buildings from way back before my days were pictures that I had never seen and it was interesting to see all the stories that have a bottom and everything or really history about them. They may sound like stories, but they're crew stories. Now, the next big project for the Morrison County Historical Society will be an exhibit at the Morrison County Fair talking about the historical disasters in Morrison County. Reporting in Little Falls for this week's Northwoods Adventure, Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.