Ward Lake, located about two miles northwest of Litchfield is a man made creation. It was built to store the storm waters of Secret Creek. The first dam was washed out in 1890. A second dam was built two years later. In January 1892, work began using Fresno scrapers to move the earth. In doing so an skeleton was exhumed and believed to be an Indian medicine man. It had been well preserved. It was noted there was a necklace, balls of war paint, beads, a spear head an a knife shaped flint. In addition, what appeared to be two pieces of a deer’s leg with numerous notches. What made this unique were the items found with the skeleton. There had been reports from time to time from farmers while plowing fields to come across skeletal remains, and nothing else.