I was puzzled about this road in Parke County, Indiana when I did my ride there last October 7. I wanted to visit the marks left by the Ten O’Clock Treaty Line, but despite what the street sign said, this was too far north. The road ran roughly parallel to the treaty line, but I couldn’t figure out a good reason why people would have named it that.
Then, a couple of days ago, I took a look at the Royce Map. There was another treaty line that was intended to parallel the more famous Ten O’Clock line. It was an 1818 treaty by which the Wea Indians agreed to cede their land in Indiana, except for the area identified as Royce Area 114. The photo above is taken approximately at the site marked #1 on the map below.
[...] point: The intersection shown in the previous blog article (at the brownish circle near Coloma) has been straightened out very little since [...]