This map is an experiment to see if I can do anything useful by way of overlaying information on top of snippets of the Royce Area maps from The Library of Congress’s web site. I downloaded the jpeg2000 version of the Indiana map, then used the free ER Viewer program from ermapper.com to extract as good a quality jpeg file as is possible from the Library of Congress’s files. There are other versions of the Royce Area maps online, e.g. at rootsweb.com. Those are pretty good and are simpler to download and use, but they don’t give one quite the same resolution.
I then used Adobe Illustrator to mark the county boundary and the routes I took on a couple of relatively short day rides from last October. The blue dashed line northwest of Rockville is from the ride I blogged about here. The reddish dashed line to the south is one I blogged about here (identified as #2 on the map), here and here (site #1 on the route) and here (site #4).
Site #3 was on the way from the old McCoy mission site to Rosedale, on some quiet roads in the valley of the Big Raccoon Creek. It was about at that location that I took the photos below. I don’t have any excuse by which to link them to the history — but they reminded me a little bit of the old Burma Shave signs one used to see along the roads back in the 1950s.
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