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Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006

• 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 ...
  
  
• 06.15.08
  Illinois-Indiana boundary and Tippecanoe battlefield
  Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006, Tippecanoe County IN (0)

  These photos are from the time in September 2006 when I made a stop at Granville. We had camped at Prophetstown State Park. It was while trying to find the campground the day before, riding back and forth to figure out where to turn, that I rode across the above railroad crossing (wet with rain) and went down. My helmet made a loud cracking sound as it hit the rail or whatever it was that it hit, but it didn't seem that I hit it hard. I picked myself up, checked my bike, put the chain ...
  
  
• 06.13.08
  Granville
  Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006, Tippecanoe County IN (1)

  Thanks to Roger Kramer's blog, I learned of another one that's very new, but looks like it has potential: Dan on Bike. Dan lives, rides, and takes photos in one of my favorite areas for riding, Tippecanoe County, Indiana. His area is a good place for settlement era history in general, and Black Hawk war scare history in particular. A few days ago Dan posted a great photo taken from the Granville bridge. I looked through my photos for one of my own, but don't seem to have any of the bridge. I have ...
  
  
• 09.11.06
  Ten O’Clock Treaty Line trip - Days 3-4, 11-12 Sep-2006
  Marion County IN, Ten O'Clock Treaty Line tour - 2006 (0)

  I had hoped to spend one day at the state library in Indianapolis. I figured I could afford one rain day and still ride all the way to Madison in the 9 days of vacation. But we ended up taking two rain days in Indianapolis. The first day it didn't rain so much after all. On the 2nd it rained a lot. (And on the 3rd, too. But we took only the two days off.) This was my first trip to the Indiana State Library. The first item of business was to look at the ...
  
  

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