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Berrien County MI

• 03.25.08
  Chicago Trail to Hudson Lake
  Berrien County MI, Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, LaPorte County IN, St Joseph County IN (0)

  The first time I rode southwest from Niles, Michigan along Black Hawk's old trail, was in 1997 or 1998. I had sampled some of the Sauk Trail in Michigan (US-12) and found the road in poor repair -- not pleasant to ride on in many places. Much of it has since been resurfaced, and is much better to ride on now. But back then, I was glad to find that here was a piece of Black Hawk's old road that was such a pleasant place to ride -- there wasn't a lot of traffic ...
  
  
• 10.12.07
  Baptist mission controversies
  Berrien County MI, Knox County IN, Parke County IN (1)

  This is a view along the last leg of the path from the paved road to the Maria Creek Baptist Church cemetery. (The road is one between Oaktown and Freelandville, Indiana.) The gravesite of Charles Polke is near the trees, left of center in the photo, where it would be hard to see at any distance if not for four steel fence posts set in the ground at the four corners. They are not visible in the photo, but can be seen as one gets closer. Isaac McCoy was pastor here for eight years before going away to ...