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2005

• 01.24.08
  Wapa farm near Wapakoneta
  2005, Auglaize County OH (0)

  The above snippet from the Royce Indian cession map of Ohio shows the approximate route I took on that day in 2005 just before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. I started at Rockford, on the St. Mary's River, and rode to Stony Creek near Degraff, where Tenkswatawa and Tecumseh had gathered their group of dissidents for a time. There are two circles along the route, one showing where I found those two treatyline road segments in the previous article, and one north of Wapakoneta, where the photo below was taken. I was riding from Buckland to Wapakoneta, along the ...
  
  
• 09.23.07
  Ceresco dam
  2005, Calhoun County MI (3)

  This was the first stop of the day on a two-day ride to Lenawee and Hillsdale counties in October 2005. It's just below the Ceresco Dam on the Kalamazoo River between Battle Creek and Marshall, Michigan. A few minutes after I took this photo, the young man on the bridge came over to talk to me. He no longer lived around here, but used to fish and hang out here when he was younger. He was looking over the scenes of his boyhood (even though he was almost a boy yet) before going off to ...
  
  
• 10.29.05
  Bailly Homestead, Day 1
  2005, Kalamazoo County MI, Porter County IN, Vanburen County MI (0)

  Copied from my old web site, more or less, 5-Jun-2007 The destination for this weekend tour, which turned out to be the last one in 2005, was the Joseph Bailly homestead at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Schoolcraft is over 30 miles from home, a little over one third of the way to the first day's destination of Niles. There is a town park a couple of blocks from Ebeneezer Lakin Brown's old home. It's a good place to brew a cup of coffee and a cup of soup. The route to Niles includes a segment that belongs on my "Favorite Roads" pages. ...