The Spokesrider

I’ve already posted this photo from August 27 (minus the annotation and arrow) but was looking at it again to get a look at the only photo I happened to take of the place where Andrew Sawyer had lived.  Sawyer was one of the farmers who was convicted of the murder of Indians in 1824 [...]

(August 27, continued)  The town of Markleville is less than a mile south of the site of site of the Fall Creek Massacre (or Deer Lick Creek Massacre).   It didn’t yet exist in 1824 when the killings took place. This scene is facing north on Markleville Road.   Nobody was making use of the zavalinka.   (That’s [...]

(August 27, continued)  This is where I turned east onto CR 800.   I had learned that the massacre site was on the south side of this road. At a bridge over the creek I stopped, thinking I had gone too far.   Usually this blog is about things that can be seen from the public roads, [...]

This was the first photo of a three-day weekend. Friday night we stayed in Anderson IN. On Saturday morning I took off on a ride to Richmond. The first destination along the way was the site of the 1824 Fall Creek massacre near Markleville. I stopped to check my maps at a likely looking road [...]

(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, [...]

(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 [...]

(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 [...]