(Sept 26, cont). I was on my way to Section 31 in Salem Township, where I could cross the Mad River. James McPherson was said to have lived near the river there. James McPherson is the person who had lived with the Shawnee people for some time after having been captured in 1781 in the fight known as Lochry’s Defeat.
Upper Valley Pike, the sign says. The “valley” is the Mad River valley. I wasn’t almost at the River at this point, even if this doesn’t look very much like a valley. The road doesn’t look much like a pike here either, because it seems to follow half-section lines rather than following the terrain from point A to point B. But a comparison of modern maps with the 1874 county atlas suggests that the roads have been much re-worked in this place. Even the river doesn’t seem to follow the course shown on the old maps.
The intersection is circled in red on this aerial view. The river (a small creek up here) crosses the road just to the south. To me it looks like it has been straightened and re-routed.
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