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Clinton County IN

• 06.17.10
  Wildcat Creek
  Clinton County IN, Howard County IN (0)

  It's not always easy to explain why I like to go riding to places like this. It's a place where a family with the surname Harness settled along the Michigan Road in the 1830s. Now it's just a cornfield. I like the flat, agricultural country like this, in large part because of the people who lived here. But sometimes there can be too much of a good thing. The next morning my ride took me east of Kokomo. This wasn't a typical scene from my bicycle seat. From there it was many ...
  
  
• 06.12.10
  Big Miami Rhombus
  Clinton County IN (0)

  googlemap The Big Miami Reserve (shown above) was in the shape of a rhombus, almost. If the Wabash River would have run in a straight line between Lagro and Logansport, it would have formed that shape -- a parallelogram with four equal sides. But of course, the Wabash River doesn't run in a straight line (which it would do if it followed the dark blue line on the north edge of the reserve) so it doesn't quite make a regular geometric figure. In 1818, a few years after the close of war, the United States obtained a huge cession of central Indiana ...
  
  
• 06.07.10
  Proffit and Catron
  Clinton County IN (0)

  More photos from the Old Prophet Cemetery. There are two family names in this cemetery: Proffit and Catron. The county histories explain the relationships between the two. There were at least two marriages between Proffits and Catrons. Two different Catron men who are buried here had married Proffit women, each woman a daughter of the Adam and Christena Proffit who are also burried here. The Proffits and Catrons originally came from Germany, then lived in Virginia and Tennessee before moving here. This is a different route for Germans ...
  
  
• 06.05.10
  Old Prophet Cemetery
  Clinton County IN (0)

  googlemap The first ride on Memorial Day weekend was from Kokomo to Frankfort, Indiana. One point of interest along the way was the boundary of the old Miami Reserve. Google Map shows an old cemetery in the middle of a field near the west boundary -- the "Old Prophet Cemetery." Hmmm. What kind of Old Prophet could that be? The Native Americans who were sometimes called prophets usually were nativists and traditionalists who would have been unlikely to follow European Christian burial customs. Mormons, maybe? A quick Google ...