A couple of miles west of the 1809 treaty line, the road curved around the side of a little creek and then resumed a straight line to the west, a half mile north of the previous line I had been riding on.
It isn’t much of a photo. I do remember the stop, which I made for no more reason than to document the location for future reference.
Delorme Street Atlas tells me the creek somewhere off to the right is the Whitewater River!
I’ve known about Indiana’s Whitewater River. After it gets to be a bigger stream (to the south) it runs through Brookville, near where my German Lutheran hillbilly ancesters lived for a few years, and then to Metamora, which is now a tourist place on an old canal route, IIRC.
I had no idea at the time, or I would have paid this place in Randolph County more respect.
I wish the weather would permit me to go back to make amends.
Late edit: OOPS!!
The above is not the Whitewater River. It’s Martindale Creek, which parallels the Whitewater River and then joins it about 16 miles to the south.
I had crossed the Whitewater River not far from the 12 Mile Boundary. Here’s another photo taken when I was back at the boundary and facing east. The Whitewater River, such as it is, is at the bottom of the valley in the view up ahead.
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