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2008-Aug-29

• 02.02.09
  Freyburg
  2008-Aug-29, Auglaize County OH, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008 (0)

  Freyburg, OH has a big German catholic cemetery. I was looking for an excuse to post the photos I took of it on my August 29 starter ride, but haven't found any good connections to the settlement-era stories, other than to note that this place was part of the Wapakoneta Reservation before 1832. This is looking south of the town. The 1905 county history tells about a John Lenox who supposedly lived about a mile down this road. John Lenox, one of the early pioneer of Pusheta township, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, October 18, 1809. When he ...
  
  
• 01.22.09
  Fee simple
  2008-Aug-29, Auglaize County OH, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008 (2)

  googlemap We checked into a motel in Wapakoneta late on August 29. There was just enough time for me to get in a brief starter ride, shown in green on the above Google map. I decided that a reachable destination before dark was a small piece of road that follows the old boundary of the Wapakoneta Reservation. This was a Shawnee reservation that was in existence from 1817 to 1831. The place is marked with a green marker. The reservation boundary forms a rectangle that is shown by a thin violet line. I drew it with the help ...
  
  
• 01.18.09
  Connecting the Greenville Treaty Line Dots
  2008-Aug-29, For Loramie base camp - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  In an article from last September 25 I told about the quick bike ride I did after we arrived in Fort Loramie that evening. It was a warmup for four days of riding. I took advantage of the opportunity to see a small segment of the Greenville Treaty Line I had not yet seen. This photo shows the end of a segment of road that follows the line, just before the road turns away from it. What I look for in places like this are signs of the treaty line continuing past the road -- perhaps in the ...