North America doesn’t have a lot of ancient castle ruins like one can see in Europe, but there is this castle-like grain elevator in Carlos, Indiana, complete with crenellated wall.
Carlos is in the south part of Randolph County, where I was riding on my way to the Greenville Treaty line and the location of the first Euro-American settlers in the county. Carlos is more than a crossroads — it is big enough to have a couple of side streets. But it’s not very ancient. It’s not nearly as ancient as the first settlers or the Indian treaty lines that run diagonally through the county. It’s not even ancient enough to be mentioned in the 1882 county history. The 1882 plat map shows that a railroad had come through since the last plat map had been published in the previous decade, but gives no indication that a town had yet grown up here. But between then and now a community did grow and thrive here, and then decline.
Yesterday’s mileage: 50. YTD: 1880.5
[...] is only a mile west of the previous stop at the driveway to the Catey farm. I wrote about the Carlos grain elevator in the evening after returning from my September 28 ride. Here are a few more photos of the place, [...]