The Spokesrider

(Sep 29 2009, cont.) After leaving the Huntsville-Williams cemetery I circled around to approach Pendleton and Falls Creek from the north. Falls Park was where I expected to find a historical marker where the Falls Creek murderers had been hanged. I saw from this sign that I wasn’t the only one likely to have come [...]

(Sep 29, 2009,cont.) This cemetery is two miles west of the William Williams homestead. Williams is buried on the knoll in the foreground of this photo, judging from a photo taken from the other direction that you can see on an excellent web site about Madison County cemeteries that I just now discovered. But I [...]

(Sep 29, 2009) On the previous two days I had ridden to the northeast and then to the east. This time the wind was almost in my favor for a ride to the south, to my main destination for the three-day outing. This time I was headed towards Fall Creek and to sites of the [...]

I had now reached the “old boundary,” i.e. the Greenville Treaty boundary. The road here follows that boundary line. Parker’s farm was on the left side of the road. The road that forms the Wayne County line can be seen in the distance here.

(Sep 28, cont) The road east comes to a T intersection here because it runs into the Greenville Treaty line. The surveys on the two sides of the line don’t match up, with the result that the east-west roads don’t go straight through.

Carlos is only a mile west of the previous stop at the driveway to the Catey farm. I wrote about the Carlos grain elevator in the evening after returning from my September 28 ride. Here are a few more photos of the place, starting with the main intersection where I spied the grain elevator out [...]

A couple of miles west of the 1809 treaty line, the road curved around the side of a little creek and then resumed a straight line to the west, a half mile north of the previous line I had been riding on. It isn’t much of a photo. I do remember the stop, which I [...]