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• 06.12.08
  Soldiers Grove
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Bridges, Prairies, Wisconsin (0)

  Myra alerted me to the news about the recent flooding in Vernon and Crawford Counties, Wisconsin. Soldiers Grove is one of the flooded places. I had ridden through Soldiers Grove on my tour of the Black Hawk War Zone in September 2004. It was on my way to Victory, where the Bad Axe massacre took place. The soldiers came through here, on Black Hawk's trail, the day before the fighting at Bad Axe on the Mississippi River. I did not have time to linger or see much of the town. This bridge is where I crossed the Kickapoo ...
  
  
• 05.02.08
  A ride on Hwy 49
  Alabama, Bridges, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (0)

  It was while listening to Theodore Rosengarten's book, "All God's Dangers : The life of Nate Shaw" that I got the idea that we should go to Alabama to see the places he told about. Myra reminded me that I had never taken her to Florida. So I devised a trip plan that included Florida (the Appalachicola region) and then she was all in favor, too. I came to realize this was where Tecumseh had come on his famous 1811 trip to the south, so read a pile of books to learn more about the history of the Creek ...
  
  
• 04.28.08
  Emuckfau
  Bridges, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (0)

  More from April 5, 2006. This is a bridge over Emuckfau creek, quite near my destination, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park. The actual village of Emuckfau was a few miles upstream, nearer to Zana (see the Google map below). General Andrew Jackson didn't quite make it to Emuckfau, either, when he and his Tennesseans came this direction in January 1814. He had to retreat when attacked by Redstick Creeks, here and at Enotochopco. Here is one of many web sites about it. His losses were not as heavy as those of the Creeks. Twenty of his men were ...
  
  
• 04.20.08
  Wetumpka bridge
  Alabama, Bridges, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006 (0)

  This is the Wetumpka bridge over the Coosa River, facing east. Nate Shaw (Ned Cobb) had occasion to cross this bridge when he was in prison in the 1930s and 40s. At least, I presume this bridge is the same one. The photo is taken from the Wetumpka city side of the river. The far side is the prison side, as he called it. The prison was a few miles to the north (left). He explains how the convict labor gangs worked here and there: And at that present time we was travelin down to a two-hundred-acre ...
  
  
• 02.23.08
  Big Raccoon Creek then and now
  Bridges, Parke County IN (0)

  On my first ride to Bridgeton, Indiana, in September 2006, I rode in from the northeast. We had camped the night before at the Racoon Lake State Recreation Area. I wanted some photos to go with the story of Isaac McCoy's Baptist Indian Mission here, from the late 18teens. I had little idea of what I'd find, so stopped here at this old iron bridge to take photos, thinking this might be the most photogenic thing I'd find that could go with the story. It turned out that there was a lot more to take ...
  
  

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