The Spokesrider

Ken Steinhoff says he wants to take photos of old bank buildings next time he’s back in Cape Girardeau, especially the old ones that look like bank buildings.    Here’s a building that’s not a bank, but looks like one.   The photo was taken in Notasulga, Alabama in April 2006. I have a hunch it used [...]

It took me a while to find these photos, but an article by Mark T. Mitchell over at Front Porch Republic (Farmers Ditch Tractors for…Oxen?) reminded me that on one of my rides past the Tillers International site north of Scotts MI, I had seen oxen at work.   A New York Times article (On Small [...]

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, cattle came to displace whitetail deer in the economy of the Creek Indians of what is now east central Alabama.   You could even say that this change was one of the factors that led to the Creek Wars that were exploited by Andrew Jackson during the War [...]

The Rev. Isaac S. Ketcham’s gravestone is the big one on the left.  His wife, Sarah, outlived him but got a smaller gravestone — the one to the right of Isaac’s. BTW, up until now I have been spelling the name as Ketchum rather than Ketcham.    I’ve seen it spelled Ketchum in several places, [...]

The 1875 history of Cass County (Michigan)  says Ira Nash came to Michigan in December 1829, and spent Christmas Day in White Pigeon: The subject of this sketch was born in Danbury, Connecticut, August 12th, 1806.  When three years old his parents moved to Chenango County, New York, where he lived until coming to Michigan [...]

Judging by plat maps, the barn appears to have been on property owned by Richard J. Huyck. Huyck had been a volunteer in the militia, though not in the company that was raised in Volinia Township. He didn’t move here until several years after the Black Hawk war.

(Sep 28, cont.) As on the previous day, when I crossed the 1809 treaty line I stopped to take photos. That was the 3rd time I visited this particular straight-line segment of 1809 treaty line, and this is at least the 3rd time I’ve blogged about it. So in order to have something new to [...]