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Bremen base camp - 2007

• 08.27.07
  Talma
  Bremen base camp - 2007 (2)

  From Tippecanoe I rode across the river to the west side, and then headed south as close to the river as ridable roads would take me. This was one of them. One good rest stop for photos deserved another a few hundred yards later. I recrossed the river back to the east side to get a look at the town of Talma.  I found a historical marker I was looking for, and then saw this building.  Wow. That's the smallest high school I had ever seen, I thought.  It reminded me of the high school in Royal, ...
  
  
• 08.25.07
  Old Tip Town
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Bridges, Marshall County IN (0)

  This is a photo looking north from the south edge of Tippecanoe, taken on my first visit ever to the area in summer 2000. I remembered the railroad tracks, which seemed to serve as a giant speed bump for the road into town. It's as if the railroad grade didn't deign to run at the same level as the town. I'm sure there's a good reason for that. There's a river nearby that has to be crossed, and I suppose the higher the grade level, the better. But it reminds me of my first impression ...
  
  
• 08.23.07
  Tippecanoe
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Marshall County IN (0)

  The first time I had been to Tippecanoe, probably in 2000, it seemed I had stumbled on a place that was far away from everything else and that everything was several decades old. I've felt that way in a few other crossroads towns in Indiana. But this one didn't give that impression this time. Last time there had been a small, run-down country stores with narrow aisles and not a huge selection to choose from. It's still there and is much the same inside, except that it has recently undergone an expansion! ...
  
  
• 08.22.07
  Off the reservation
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Bridges (0)

  Just a bit further west from the River's Edge Farm, the road crossed the Tippecanoe, the 2nd of many crossings for me that day. I stopped to take some more photos of the area that had been part of Chechawkose's reserve. There was not a lot of traffic on this road, but a car came by every couple of minutes. One pickup slowed down and almost stopped. When I was able to, I turned around to look. Usually it's someone asking if I need help. This was a man with close-cropped hair behind a rolled-up ...
  
  
• 08.22.07
  Chechawkose’s village (August 11, 2007)
  Bremen base camp - 2007, Marshall County IN (2)

  I didn't see any more Amish places south of US-30. Five miles south of Etna Green I turned west on a less-traveled county road. I wanted to see the country that had been part of Che-chaw-kose's reservation. The above-pictured place is on this land, very near the Tippecanoe River. [Edit & Note: Actually, it may be just slightly off the reservation, so to speak. See the next blog post. jbg, 22-Aug-2007] This map is a snippet of one of many maps of Indian land cessions at memory.loc.gov. Chechawkose was a Potawatomi leader who ...
  
  

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