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Randolph County IN

• 02.09.10
  Arba cemetery
  Randolph County IN (0)

  (Aug 28, concluded.) The Arba cemetery lies behind the Friends church. The 1882 county history suggests that an Indian burial place was descecrated in order to make this cemetery, though it doesn't say so in those words. The Randolph County Historical Society has a camcorder video that was taken through a windshield while driving into the cemetery on this road. There is also an aerial view of the cemetery on that site, probably taken from Google Maps. I looked for Parker gravestones, but if I had read the county history more thoroughly before I came here, I ...
  
  
• 02.05.10
  Abolitionists in Arba
  Randolph County IN (0)

  (Sep 28 2009, cont.) Arba, founded in 1815, was an important town in Randolph County during the settlement era, probably due to its location right next to Wayne County on the road leading north from Richmond. A lot of the settlers had made their homes in Wayne County for at least a short time before moving to Randolph County. Arba was on the route into the county. The 1882 county history tells about Arba's early role in the slavery abolition movement: About the time that William Lloyd Garrison was imprisoned at Baltimore for publishing a ...
  
  
• 01.29.10
  Quaker Trace
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  (Sep 28, cont.) From the Thomas W. Parker place I rode a mile east along the Randolph-Wayne county line to Arba Road. This was one of the main destinations for the day. It's a place where the modern road still follows the old "Quaker Trace." In Indiana the Quaker Trace connected Richmond with Fort Wayne, and was so-called because of all the Quakers who moved to this area and who helped build it. It seems also to have been a route on the Underground Railroad, thanks to those same Quakers. There is also a Quaker ...
  
  
• 01.27.10
  Chase through the nettles
  Randolph County IN (1)

  (Sep. 28, cont.) At the southwest corner of Thomas W. Parker's old property, i.e. at the intersection of the Greenville Treaty Line and the Randolph-Wayne county line, I stopped to look for places that the first settler might have picked for his home site. (My bicycle is just barely inside Wayne County. The county line road leads off into the distance.) The likely site is obvious to me now when I look at this photo, but it wasn't obvious at the time until I rode down the county line road, across the little ...
  
  
• 01.26.10
  First place of settlement in Randolph County
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  (Sep 28, cont.) The 1882 history of Randolph County page 359) tells of the first settler in Greensfork Township, who was also the first settler in the entire county. The first settler was Thomas W. Parker, April, 1814, on Fractional Section 32, Town 1, Range 1, just east of the old boundary, and just north of Wayne County line, not very far west of Arba. I had now reached the "old boundary," i.e. the Greenville Treaty boundary. The road here follows that boundary line. Parker's farm was on the left side of the road. The road ...
  
  

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