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Vanburen County MI

• 10.17.07
  Pipeline Road
  Parke County IN, St. Joseph County MI, Vanburen County MI (1)

  Last week Monday, after visiting the likely site of Isaac McCoy's mission in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana, I headed west to Rosedale and then north back to Rockville along the Catlin Road. That last stretch was an especially pleasant ride. There had been a wind out of the southwest all day, and now it was finally at my back. But it was also nice the way the road followed the edge of the valley of Little Raccoon Creek. I should someday compile a list of these types of roads. The bottom of the valley is ...
  
  
• 10.29.05
  Bailly Homestead, Day 1
  2005, Kalamazoo County MI, Porter County IN, Vanburen County MI (0)

  Copied from my old web site, more or less, 5-Jun-2007 The destination for this weekend tour, which turned out to be the last one in 2005, was the Joseph Bailly homestead at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. Schoolcraft is over 30 miles from home, a little over one third of the way to the first day's destination of Niles. There is a town park a couple of blocks from Ebeneezer Lakin Brown's old home. It's a good place to brew a cup of coffee and a cup of soup. The route to Niles includes a segment that belongs on my "Favorite Roads" pages. ...