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Parke County IN

• 02.23.08
  Big Raccoon Creek then and now
  Bridges, Parke County IN (0)

  On my first ride to Bridgeton, Indiana, in September 2006, I rode in from the northeast. We had camped the night before at the Racoon Lake State Recreation Area. I wanted some photos to go with the story of Isaac McCoy's Baptist Indian Mission here, from the late 18teens. I had little idea of what I'd find, so stopped here at this old iron bridge to take photos, thinking this might be the most photogenic thing I'd find that could go with the story. It turned out that there was a lot more to take ...
  
  
• 02.21.08
  No Ten O’clock marks here
  Parke County IN (0)

  An examination of the 1874 atlas didn't seem to suggest there were any property lines that would have remained even then to mark the treaty line of 1820 that formed the north boundary of Royce Area 114. (This is in contrast to the more famous Ten O'Clock line from the 1809 treaty, where there are several such marks on the map, and a few that are visible yet today.) There is one possible exception, though. The above is a snippet of the Reserve Township map. The route of my October 7 bike ride is shown in red. ...
  
  
• 02.19.08
  Ten O’Clock Road is all over the clock
  Parke County IN (0)

  This is the Ten O'Clock Road northwest of Rockville, IN. It was just irregular enough to make for pleasant riding, but it certainly wasn't arrow-straight like a treaty line road. There is a reason for that. It doesn't follow the treaty line anywhere. I had at first guessed it followed the line mostly, but that it twisted and turned away from the line here and there on account of the terrain. But that isn't it at all. This is from the 1874 atlas of Parke County. (It's not as good a photo ...
  
  
• 02.19.08
  Ten O’Clock Road - Royce Area 114
  Parke County IN (1)

  I was puzzled about this road in Parke County, Indiana when I did my ride there last October 7. I wanted to visit the marks left by the Ten O'Clock Treaty Line, but despite what the street sign said, this was too far north. The road ran roughly parallel to the treaty line, but I couldn't figure out a good reason why people would have named it that. Then, a couple of days ago, I took a look at the Royce Map. There was another treaty line that was intended to parallel the more famous Ten O'Clock ...
  
  
• 02.18.08
  The Road to Rosedale
  Parke County IN (0)

  This map is an experiment to see if I can do anything useful by way of overlaying information on top of snippets of the Royce Area maps from The Library of Congress's web site. I downloaded the jpeg2000 version of the Indiana map, then used the free ER Viewer program from ermapper.com to extract as good a quality jpeg file as is possible from the Library of Congress's files. There are other versions of the Royce Area maps online, e.g. at rootsweb.com. Those are pretty good and are simpler to download and use, but they ...
  
  

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