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• 01.26.09
  Fushatchee
  2006-Apr-03, Alabama, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (0)

  The introduction to "Creeks and Southerners" by Andrew K. Frank (2005) tells of Andrew Brissert, who in 1783 got in trouble with the Spanish authorities in Pensacola. He and his wife had come to buy some food supplies and sell two African American slaves. He was arrested for being "dressed and painted as an Indian" and suspected of being a spy. The thing was, he was an Indian. He was born in England, spoke English, and except for his paint and dress acted like an Englishman, but he was also a Creek. His Creek family ...
  
  
• 07.16.08
  The Negro Fort and Black Hawk
  Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (1)

  Here is the map from the Florida DOT site that Ken Steinhoff recommended. If you click on the above map fragment, it should take you to the PDF file at the DOT site from which it was taken. I've circled the site of the Negro Fort in red. It's about 27 miles by road from East Point, which is across the bay from Apalachicola. If you go by crow, it's about 15 miles straight north of Apalachicola. Fort Gadsen used to be right here, along the near shore of the Apalachicola River. The Negro Fort, so called, ...
  
  
• 07.14.08
  Florida DOT maps, almost
  Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (2)

  Ken Steinhoff suggested that since I am a map fan I should check out the Florida DOT maps. So I did that, letting myself get distracted from an article about an Ohio site that I was working on tonight. Franklin County was what I picked to look at. That's the only Florida county where my bicycle wheels have ever touched the ground. It's also the only Florida county where I've ever stayed overnight, and one of very few I've visited. Here's how it came about. In 2005 I got the idea of doing a bicycle ride from ...
  
  
• 06.17.08
  Peter Weaver and Burnett’s Reserve
  Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006, Tippecanoe County IN (0)

  This is another photo from the cemetery where Peter H. Weaver and his wife, Martha, are buried. Peter's gravestone is the one with the flag honoring his service in the War of 1812. The cemetery isn't one that gets a lot of traffic. There was no road to it -- just a mowed space between two fields on which to reach it. But the place seemed well cared for. (This map image from the 1878 atlas of Wayne Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, is provided by www.historicmapworks.com. You can click on the map to go to the page containing the original image.) ...
  
  
• 06.16.08
  Peter H. Weaver
  Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006, Tippecanoe County IN (3)

  More from September 14, 2006. The last history stop of the afternoon was Peter Weaver's home. Weaver was one of the earliest settlers in Tippecanoe County. Sandford C. Cox told about him as a militia officer ("Early Settlers", pages 35-36): ...the manner of conducting a militia muster, held by Capt. P. H. W., on the south side of Wea prairie, in early times. The Captain was a stout built, muscular man, who stood six feet four in his boots, and weighed over two hundred pounds. When dressed in his uniform -- a blue hunting shirt, fastened with ...
  
  

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