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Randolph County IN

• 07.20.07
  1 July 2007 - treaty line corner to end of Randolph Co.
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Randolph County IN (0)

  In the last post, I didn't really get as far as the northwest corner of the treaty boundary, despite what the subject line says. First I had to cross the county line into Randolph County, and get around the place on the map called Ridgeville. I had a small gap in my maps. Maybe that got me mixed up. I was a bit disoriented when I got to Ridgeville. It seemed I had stumbled on a little town in the middle of nowhere. I think it seemed odd mostly because I had ...
  
  
• 07.19.07
  1 July 2007 - Salamonia to treaty line corner
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Day Rides, Jay County IN, Randolph County IN (0)

  After Salamonie, there were more gravel roads to mark the treaty line. It was probably this sign, at the crossroads known as Boundary City, that got me started seven years on looking for the marks left on the landscape by the Indian treaties. For this particular boundary of this particular treaty (the Fort Wayne Treaty of 1809) they are pretty obvious. This was the end of the road as far as following the northern boundary of the treaty. The boundary crosses US-27 here. But here is a puzzle that I didn't notice until I got back and started looking at ...