(Sep 28, cont) The road east comes to a T intersection here because it runs into the Greenville Treaty line. The surveys on the two sides of the line don’t match up, with the result that the east-west roads don’t go straight through.
The above intersection is where my route, marked in a bluish color, meets the treaty line, marked in pink.
A snippet of a map in the 1882 county history is shown here. My route is marked in red. The blue circle is where the photo was taken. The first settlers came into Randolph County before the War of 1812 was quite over, and settled right next to the treaty line, in fractional section 32 (shaded in green). The earliest of the early settlers settled in the lower part of that area. I always like to see what kind of country appealed to the settlers who got to pick first, so spent some time along the treaty boundary looking at the east side of it.
Geez “Spokes”, we keep tripping over each other,
one hot June day this summer, I drove and photographed the “Gore”, across Indiana, cut by the Greenville Treaty. I went as far south as Richmond, to the marker at the McDonald’s, then quit and went home.
( 2 weeks ago, I was at the mouth of the Cuyahoga, and down through Akron, tracing the Treaty Line. My wife got mad and made me quit about half way across the portage.
I’m planning to go back (alone) and finish the job.
Ron
Hi, Ron. That’s a good activity! My wife has been pretty tolerant of my rides along treaty lines, but she seldom comes along to do the exploring. She puts up with hearing about it later.