(September 26, cont.) The village at the top of the hill ahead is Springhills, Ohio. My brakes weren’t adjusted the best, but I was able to stop on this downhill when it occurred to me that I should get a photo. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but the stream at the bottom is the same Stony Creek that flows past the old 1860 1806 encampment of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa.

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This building was at one corner of Springhill’s main intersection, at the top of the hill. (No, it isn’t quite the only intersection.) I took a photo and then asked a guy getting out of his pickup, kitty-corner across the street, if he knew anything about it. It didn’t look like it had once been a school or anything else I could think of. He said it was just used for storage now, but that it had originally been built for a railroad that never came. I think he also said it now belonged to him, but my memory of that conversation is a bit faded and possibly confused with other such conversations I had about old buildings on this trip.

I have since looked at the 1881 history of Champaign County. It does refer to the railroad never coming to this place. I presume this statement on page 484 refers to the building: “The large two Story brick, now used for a store and tenement house, was built by Mathew Cretcher, Isaac Eads and others.”