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Madison County IN

• 02.26.10
  Keep trying until you get it right
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  (Sep 29 2009, cont.) The old historic district of Pendleton looked like a likely place to get lunch. I rode east on State Street until it seemed I had gone out of town without finding anything. I turned around and returned, stopping for this photo downtown. I then stopped close to an intersection up ahead, looking up and down the streets. A man in a pickup at the stoplight rolled down his window and asked if I was looking for a place to eat. Well, yes I was. (How ...
  
  
• 02.22.10
  Directions to the Court
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  (29 Sep 2009, cont.) When I first saw a sign indicating the "Town Court" down the road, I wondered if it was a municipal version of a food court. I was starting to think about lunch. But no, when I got there I found it's a place for legal proceedings rather than hot sandwiches. And it's in a convenient location for legal business, too. It's not downtown, but on the north side of the creek. Only 500 away, on the same side of the creek, is a place where criminals were hung. ...
  
  
• 02.20.10
  Jury selection
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  (Sep 29 2009, cont) Back on the south side, I took one more look at Fall Creek and the marker on the north side that says, "THREE WHITE MEN WERE HUNG HERE IN 1825 FOR KILLING INDIANS." It's still visible from here, but in this photo you'd have to know where it is in order to see it. My next intended destinations (aside from a place to eat) were: the cemetery back on the north side where James Hudson had been buried, and where perhaps the other murderers had been, too. the site of the historical marker near where the ...
  
  
• 02.17.10
  Hung here for killing Indians
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  (Sep 29 2009, cont.) Before this ride I somehow had the impression that the monument for the Fall Creek hanging was on the south side of the creek. I was pleased when I spied it on the north side where it belonged, and that there was a bridge over the creek so I could get there. This photo is taken on the north side. Note how the bridge is set on bedrock. I'm guessing this outcropping of bedrock is what put the Falls in Falls Park. It looked like one might ...
  
  
• 02.15.10
  A walk in the park
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  (29 Sep 2009, cont.) These are more scenes from the walk in Falls Park. My bicycle and I walked together. I wanted to get down to Fall Creek itself, but railroads prefer not to come down to our level in places like this. I was assured by the increasing height of the railroad bed that I was getting closer, though. Finally, the famous Fall Creek itself. And a bridge across to the town side. Next I went looking for the marker that commemorated the hanging. I had seen photos of it on the web, like the ...
  
  

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