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Whitley County IN

• 03.12.08
  De La Balme
  Huntington - 2004, Whitley County IN (0)

  This photo was taken a couple miles or so before I got to the Eel River Post-Fort site. Like I said, I'm looking for excuses to do some more riding along the Eel River. The intersection of De La Balme and Johnson was about a mile from Little Turtle's post. I didn't know what it was about until I looked it up just now. But this site is very near where Augustin De La Balme was defeated by Little Turtle and a force of Miami warriors during the American Revolution. He had started from ...
  
  
• 03.10.08
  Eel River Post
  Whitley County IN (0)

  More from that bike ride of October 10, 2004. After leaving the site of Hardin's defeat, I rode southwest about 6 miles to another spot further down on the Eel River. This was the site of a minor episode in the War of 1812. Well, perhaps not minor to the Miami people whose homes and crops were destroyed just before the onset of winter. To those who say Gen. Sherman's march through Georgia marked a new type of warfare in which civilians were targeted, there is one word: nonsense. That sort of thing was done all the time to Native peoples in ...
  
  
• 03.09.08
  Hardin’s defeat
  Huntington - 2004, Whitley County IN (1)

  Cherebusco was at about the 40-mile mark, or 50 if you count my before-breakfast ride. I bought something to eat at a gas station. There was a place to sit inside, but I did my usual and asked if there was a town park where I could sit down with it. While sitting here I heard a loud bang echo off that school building, as if two railroad cars had run into each other. I wondered, but then forgot about it. A few minutes later all the eastbound US-33 traffic was directed onto the side ...
  
  
• 09.14.07
  Little Turtle’s Village
  Rochester base camp - 2007, Whitley County IN (0)

  On Tuesday of this week I did a 67 mile ride from Rochester to Little Turtle's Village, on the east side of Columbia City.  We spent the morning at the Fulton County Historical Society museum, and I didn't get started until 2pm.   If it had been only 55 miles like I had thought, I would have gotten to the destination before the sun went down.  I had to be content with a flash photo. I had told Myra it was a pretty spot.  Either my memory is bad after 11 years, or a mobile home park of sorts has been ...
  
  
• 09.11.07
  Upper Eel River
  Fulton County IN, Miami County IN, Whitley County IN (0)

  I've decided, for now at least, that the upper Eel River should be one of my favorite places to go riding. The terrain was very gently rolling, there were cattle pastures to supplement the corn and soybean fields, the soybean leaves are turning to their fall pastel colors, the homes along the way were nice to look at -- even the new ones, the sun was shining, and the wind was at my back. And the people were friendly.   Lots of oncoming drivers gave friendly waves.  It was almost like being in Amish country. Or maybe it was the fact that I ...