Kuenning-Dicke Natural Area lies along the historic Miami and Erie Canal between Lock One and the former site of Lock Two and offers 74 acres for wildlife protection and outdoor recreation. More than 400 trees have been planted to encourage the return of native plant and animal species, and the area includes a three-acre lake for catch-and-release fishing, trails for walking, running, hiking, and biking, an Adirondack shelter and camping area, an observation tower, and a gazebo. Memorials honor those who served in the Vietnam War, those connected to the Civil War, the Kuenning family home that stood there, and Robert and Thomas Kuenning, both born in that home and both veterans of World War II; the property remained in the Kuenning family for four generations before its transfer to the New Bremen Foundation in 2005. Around 1845, original Lock Two on the Miami and Erie Canal was built of native white oak timbers, with a lock chamber 15 feet wide and 90 feet long, and today a few remnants of its wood timbers and connecting bolts remain visible; an iron turn bridge once crossed the canal and opened to let canal boats pass. The canal brought activity and prosperity to the community of Lock Two, originally platted as New Paris and renamed after the 1890s, supplying water power for a sawmill and flour mill and supporting commerce that included pork packing, a blacksmith shop, a cooper shop, a saloon, and services for freight and passenger boat traffic.