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Freddie LeBeau founded Paint Creek Stables outside Madison Mills in 1982, the same year Deer Creek State Park's lodge opened. The motive behind the stables was to offer another outdoor recreational
activity for park guests. Started with 16 horses, the operation has grown to
three dozen horses for the trail riding business, plus another twenty which are
boarded. The farm boy who graduated from Madison Mills High School in the Class
of 1938 commented that he had grown up working with horses, as his father didn't
own a tractor until Freddie finished high school. At one point farming around
2500 acres with his two sons, LeBeau jokes that he never really
"officially" retired from farming. Wearing his cowboy hat, spurs and
silver belt buckle he leads groups on hour-long trail rides through Madison
Township. |
