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Iowa

• 07.17.09
  Welcome to Minnesota
  Osceola County IA (0)

  I didn't have any history destinations in mind for last week's long bike ride, other than The Banks of Plum Creek at the end. But now that I'm home I like to learn what I can about some of the places where I took photos. This one is at the border with Minnesota. The road here turns to the right (east) to follow the border. googlemap I had made a bad guess in coming to this border. I could have saved about five miles, including three miles into the ESE wind, if I had known that one of the other ...
  
  
• 07.12.09
  Scrip Warrant Act of 1855
  Clay County IA (2)

  In the last post I told how my Tuesday ride ended in a thunderstorm. This scene of pasture land was toward the beginning of the same ride, about 16 miles from where I started in Spencer, Iowa. It's in Section 3 of Waterford Township, Clay County. Tonight I looked at plat maps and county histories for information about the original owners. I didn't find anything to blog about, but the BLM's land patent database told me that this land in Section 3 was purchased with military scrip warrants that had been issued to veterans of the War ...
  
  
• 02.08.09
  No treaty lines in Iowa
  2008-Aug-30, Iowa, Labor Day Weekend - Ohio - 2008, Shelby County OH (0)

  This road in Jackson Township, Shelby County, Ohio, follows the Greenville Treaty line to the east. And here's looking the other way, toward Fort Loramie. The Greenville Treaty of 1795 left lots of marks like this on the landscape. Most of them make excellent bicycle routes. They are quiet roads with little traffic. I stopped for several photos like this on my ride to Fort Loramie on August 30. I've been looking for similar marks on the landscape in Iowa, in preparation for some riding there this summer. My wife is from Iowa, and it has been a few years since we've ...
  
  
• 12.01.07
  Disconnecting a church building from the terrain
  Iowa, churches (0)

  I was pleasantly surprised to see this youtube video when I was taking a look at the In The Agora blog. I recognized right away what it was. It's a church where some of my wife's relatives were members. The only time I was there was in September 2005, when we went to Manning, Iowa for a family reunion. We knew at the time that the congregation was going to cease to exist as a separate entity, that the building was going to be moved to town, and that a video production was planned. Some good photos of the church and of ...