Three years ago I did a ride to Logan County, Ohio, purposely routing it to a couple of small pieces of road that follow the line of the Greenville Treaty of 1795.

On Saturday I rode from Wapakoneta to Fort Loramie to Piqua, this time not so much crossing the Greenville Treaty line but following it where I could.

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On the map, my route is shown in blue. The treaty line is in red. If you zoom in you can better see where there are pieces of road that follow the line.

It looked like one piece would cross I-75, but the roads dead-end on either side of the Interstate. When driving on I-75 one can see the road to the west, at least, but there is no historical marker to tell expressway drivers about it.

The treaty line makes a bend at what was called Loramie’s Store, and that was one of my major stops Saturday. It’s at a height of land between the Ohio River drainage and the Great Lakes drainage. Later, during the canal era, it was a connecting place, too. The canal is filled in now and made into a park to the right of the trees in the photo. There are old business places and homes on either side of the old canal, almost all of which are still in use and well kept up.

The red-brick building on the left is a museum that is open on Sunday afternoons during the summer. I rode through here on Saturday, then on Sunday afternoon we came by car to visit this museum and another one at Piqua, which was the end-point of Saturday’s ride.

The curator of the Fort Loramie museum, Jim Rosengarten, filled me in on a lot of new (for me, at least) information about Lorimer, the trader who gave his name to the place, and also told me more exactly where his store was. We had a great visit. I have more to say about it, but will save it for later. I’m heading off for another ride now, to parts of Logan County that I didn’t get to visit on that ride three years ago.