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It appears that these cows aren’t allowed to use the windmills as back-scratching posts and shade trees.

This is looking northeast from Parish’s Grove. Or maybe the area in this scene was considered part of Parish’s Grove back in the day.

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This view is a little further north of the other one. It’s a place where the hill gives way to the plain.

The Wikipedia article about the place tells us about the person from whom it got its name: “Parish Grove was home to a group of local Pottawatomie Indians led by Chief Parish (real name Pierre Moran), the son of French trader Constant Moran and a Kickapoo woman. Parish died on or around 1826 and is buried in the grove, though the grave is unmarked.”

For a while I thought it was an amazing coincidence, that a Pierre Moran here was called Peerish, just like a Pierre Moran associated with Elkhart, Indiana was called Peerish.

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And the Royce maps show a Pierishe’s Village on the Eel River. One of these days I want to see if I can make a bike ride out of that one. I enjoyed last year’s ride further upstream along the Eel River. This would be an excuse for another, further downstream.

I’m pretty sure now that these are all the same person — and the same as the Perish Moran who was involved in the siege of Fort Wayne during the War of 1812.

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Here’s a googlemap showing four red markers for four places that are associated with Pierre Moran. And now I’m somewhat dismayed to see that I already visited the site of Pierishe’s village last year. I had forgotten already.

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