• « Previous Entries

Category

Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008

• 02.08.09
  No treaty lines in Iowa
  2008-Aug-30, Iowa, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  This road in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Ohio, follows the Greenville Treaty line to the east. And here's looking the other way, toward Fort Loramie. The Greenville Treaty of 1795 left lots of marks like this on the landscape. Most of them make excellent bicycle routes. They are quiet roads with little traffic. I stopped for several photos like this on my ride to Fort Loramie on August 30. I've been looking for similar marks on the landscape in Iowa, in preparation for some riding there this summer. My wife is from Iowa, and it has been a few years since we've ...
  
  
• 02.06.09
  Greenville Treaty Line in Jackson Township
  2008-Aug-30, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  (From August 30.) The road stops at the Greenville Treaty line. I spent a good part of the day following parts of the line to Fort Loramie, where the line turns north toward Fort Recovery. These were all parts of the line I had never seen before. I did skip a few places where it left marks on the landscape, though, so as to save some for another time. googlemap The Greenville line is shown as a thin, violet line. My route for the day is the blue line. I came from the north ...
  
  
• 02.05.09
  Roadside memorials
  2008-Aug-30, Jackson County MI, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  Late last December I learned that roadside memorials like the one shown here are somewhat controversial. I weighed in on the topic here and here, saying I encountered them often but didn't have a photo of one. But just tonight I found out that I do. This one is almost a mile south of where I took the photo in the last post. (I see nothing wrong with stopping every mile to take a photo.) There is even a wikipedia article about roadside memorials. It has links to more articles about the controversy. I'm on the ...
  
  
• 02.04.09
  Latecomers
  2008-Aug-30, Auglaize County OH, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  In the last post I wondered why some of the land patents for some of the places just outside the Wapakoneta Reservation were issued a couple of years after those for the lands inside. The above photo is of some more of those lands outside. It was taken as I rode south from the old boundary towards the Auglaize-Shelby county line, which is where the road in the photo ends. I had to jog to the east to go south into Shelby county. This scene is in Jackson County Township, about a mile south of the county line. In re-reading some ...
  
  
• 02.03.09
  Two land offices
  2008-Aug-30, Auglaize County OH, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008 (0)

  After having done a late ride to this site the evening before, I rode here again the next morning. It was a bit out of my way and added extra miles for the ride to Piqua. I sort of regretted this detour by the end of the day. But it worked out OK in the end. The road here follows the south boundary of the Wapakoneta Reservation. The land on the other side of the road had been ceded to the United States in the 1817 Treaty of St Mary's. The land on ...
  
  

• « Previous Entries