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Vigo County IN

• 02.09.08
  Fire hydrant and coffee in Terre Haute
  2007, Knox County IN, Vigo County IN (0)

  A fire hydrant like this should be reason enough to stop for a photo. I got to thinking of it when the question came up of when I was last in a Starbucks. It's from my ride north-to-south through Terre Haute last October. I wonder if I should have just ridden through on US-41. I spent a lot of time trying to follow side streets that didn't take me far before they'd go no further, and then I'd have to find another north-south one. This bike lane goes past Indiana State University. There wasn't much ...
  
  
• 10.14.07
  Corn picker
  Sullivan County IN, Vigo County IN (0)

  The photos here are from my ride (almost) to the Maria Creek Baptist Church cemetery last Tuesday. In Vigo county I had pleasant gravel roads, but I became a bit alarmed in looking at the maps of Sullivan County, which I should have done more carefully when the two women at Starbucks were trying to help me pick a route. If my very old county map was correct, I wasn't going to find paved roads other than US-41 to take me directly across the county.  I held onto a bit of hope.   Maybe  some of the roads had been paved ...
  
  
• 10.12.07
  Fort Harrison
  Parke County IN, Vigo County IN (1)

  Tuesday's ride to the Maria Creek cemetery started from Rosedale. From the county histories in the library, I learned that some of the inspiration to settle in Parke County had come from soldiers who had been part of the force that went with William Henry Harrison to break up the Tecumseh/Tenskwatawa confederacy at Prophetstown. While on the march, they got a look at the country. They later told their friends about it, and their stories inspired some of the first settlers. One of the routes north from Fort Harrison at present-day Terre Haute was probably along what is ...
  
  
• 10.09.07
  Maria Creek cemetery
  Knox County IN, Vigo County IN (0)

  This is what's left of the Maria Creek Baptist Church cemetery in Knox County, Indiana. The gravesite of Charles Polke is now marked by four steel fence posts, and is not currently threatened by agricultural implements. Our car, with my bicycle on it, was parked at the trees in the left center background. The creek is behind me. I rode 56 miles, but didn't make it all the way by bicycle. At the end I was riding on US-41, trying to make up for lost time but hoping Myra would pass me there so I could hitch a ...