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Benton County IN

• 08.24.08
  Rectangles and GPS
  Benton County IN, Fountain County IN (0)

  On Wednesday August 6 I wanted to see if there was still a farmstead at a place in Fountain County, Indiana, where a false scare of Indian war had taken place in 1826. It was a place where other settlers were said to have gone for safety. I stopped here at a half-mile post along the road. The land ahead, to the south, had been bought from the government by the person whose farm other settlers were said to have gone to. I was hoping to find a farmstead in the next half mile ...
  
  
• 08.20.08
  Windmill conflict
  Benton County IN (1)

  Here's yet another windmill picture. This one was taken about a mile north of Parish's Grove. At this point in the day's ride I was still a long way from being done with windmills. This scene may look peaceful enough -- all my hours riding along Benton County's windmills were peaceful and quiet. But surely something like this couldn't be built without angry conflict, could it? I wondered just how economically sustainable these towers are. I like the idea of using them for a sustainable energy supply, but I'd like them to be economically sustainable, too. ...
  
  
• 08.19.08
  Pierre Moran
  Benton County IN (0)

  It appears that these cows aren't allowed to use the windmills as back-scratching posts and shade trees. This is looking northeast from Parish's Grove. Or maybe the area in this scene was considered part of Parish's Grove back in the day. This view is a little further north of the other one. It's a place where the hill gives way to the plain. The Wikipedia article about the place tells us about the person from whom it got its name: "Parish Grove was home to a group of local Pottawatomie Indians led by Chief Parish (real name Pierre Moran), the ...
  
  
• 08.19.08
  Parish’s Grove
  Benton County IN (0)

  I hung around Parish's Grove for a while. To the west and north of it were windmills. Here it is, the highest point in Benton County. Some of the grove remains. According to Wikipedia, "[i]t originally covered about 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) and contained an abundant variety of trees, including oaks, walnuts, hickory, dogwood, haw, paw paw, sycamore, quaking ash, ironwood, water beach, elm, linn, poplar, ash, sassafras, locust, etc. As late as 1924 there were 37 varieties growing in the grove." An Indiana militia company of mounted rangers was disbanded here on August 6, 1832. ...
  
  
• 08.15.08
  Windmills in Benton County
  Benton County IN (1)

  August 3, continued. I turned north a couple of miles west of Boswell. I had already seen windmills a ways back -- I was apparently getting into windfarm country. (There wasn't a lot of wind that day--just a gentle breeze from the south-southwest.) I think I had seen some of the windmills in Benton County last year, when we drove to Rockville on US-41. But on this day I was impressed with how extensive this windfarm was. There was much more than what we had seen from US-41. In this part of the county they were ...
  
  

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