Jeff asked me offline if I had found the historic marker I was looking for on a day in August 2005 when I rode to DeGraff, Ohio. It’s one he knows about — he’s from the area. These photos are here to show that I did find it. It’s attached to this bridge, towards the other end of it.
The bridge is one over Stony Creek, south of DeGraff in Logan County, Ohio. Near here was a gathering place where Tenskwatawa and Tecumseh were trying to develop their pan-Indian resistance movement. This location ended up not working out for them, and they eventually moved to the Tippecanoe River in Indiana.
These photos were taken late in the day, at the end of a ride that had started at Rockford and had taken me through Wapakoneta. It was my first ever visit to Wapakoneta and DeGraff. I’d like to say more about what happened here in 1806, but I am instead spending my time getting ready for another visit to the area. Maybe I’ll be able to find better light for photos than I did that day in 2005, just before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans.
BTW, I’ve started to build a map index to my blog posts. A link to it is toward the top of the page, under the heading “Map Index.”
Anyone who thinks our road infrastructure is in great shape should look at the spalling deterioration of this bridge and think otherwise.
My dad had a construction company that built roads and bridges. Someone asked him one day what he was going to do when all the roads were done.
“Fix em,” he replied.
Politicians love to be captured snipping ribbons opening new highways, but they aren’t around later when it’s time to patch the potholes and prop up the sagging bridges.
[...] an old post I had told about my trip to this bridge in 2005. At that time Ken remarked on how badly [...]