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Henry County IN

• 12.02.09
  Circleville
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  (Sep 28, cont.) There were no roads that would take me west through Summit Lake State Park, so I rode on US-36 for a few miles to get around it. The road had a decent shoulder, but it was nice to get back to quiet county roads. The one in the photo follows the boundary between Stony Creek and Blue River townships in Henry County. The road wasn't in very good shape, but compared to the roads back home it was fine. I haven't learned anything about the history of this house. You could ...
  
  
• 11.29.09
  Honey Creek
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  (Sep 28, cont.) Honey Creek, Indiana is way too new a town. When I'm Spokesriding in this part of the world I like towns that were established no later than the 1820s or early 1830s. But I'm trying to overcome my bad habit of riding through these places without getting so much as a single photo by which to remember it. So in Honey Creek I stopped twice. The town didn't exist until modern inventions such as the railroad created a need for it. The 1960 county history says it was established in ...
  
  
• 11.27.09
  Oblivious to valley connections
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  (Sep 28, 2009) For this day's ride, I started at Anderson (again) and ended up at Arba, near the Indiana-Ohio border. There was a brisk wind from the west, so I went east. After maybe 7 miles of flatland riding, I came to a place where the road dropped down into a little valley. At the time I didn't have a mental map of the waterways in this part of Indiana. So it wasn't until I got home and studied the maps that I realized this was the valley of an upper portion of Fall Creek. ...
  
  
• 10.07.09
  Not the Blue River Valley
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  (Sunday September 27, cont.) At Luray, a small place with a name that lies a few miles south of Muncie, I stopped for a photo. I didn't pay any attention to the words "Blue River Valley" on this church sign at the time. I was only trying to remember to get at least one photo in each of the small towns I rode through, and this is the one for Luray. According to the sign this is an outpost of a church based in Middletown, the town where I had bought lunch 10 miles back. But now ...
  
  
• 10.06.09
  The Painters of Henry County
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  (Sunday September 27, continued) It was about noon when I had started on my ride. When I got to Middletown I was glad to see it was big enough to have a gas station and large convenience store. I grabbed a fresh eggroll and large cookie to go, then continued my ride looking for a better place to eat than the parking lot. A few miles later I decided that this cemetery was it. I wandered around with eggroll in one hand and camera in the other, and found that the cemetery is on a ...
  
  

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