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Auglaize County OH

• 09.01.08
  Greenville Treaty line to Loramie’s Store
  Auglaize County OH (0)

  Three years ago I did a ride to Logan County, Ohio, purposely routing it to a couple of small pieces of road that follow the line of the Greenville Treaty of 1795. On Saturday I rode from Wapakoneta to Fort Loramie to Piqua, this time not so much crossing the Greenville Treaty line but following it where I could. googlemap On the map, my route is shown in blue. The treaty line is in red. If you zoom in you can better see where there are pieces of road that follow the line. It looked like one piece would ...
  
  
• 08.31.08
  Renewing acquaintances with a shade tree
  Auglaize County OH (1)

  We're staying in Wapakoneta, Ohio, over the Labor Day weekend. It's the starting location for some bike rides. I've been through Wapakoneta twice before, once in 1985 on my way to DeGraf, and once last year. Each time I rode from here to the southeast, and that's what I did last night and today, too. So some of the places are becoming familiar. The wind was out of the northeast for much of the day, which made for some nice riding. My ultimate destination for today was to the southwest. But first I had ...
  
  
• 01.28.08
  Bridge over the Auglaize
  Auglaize County OH, Bridges (0)

  This is the bridge over the Auglaize River, on the southeast edge of Buckland, OH.    Fort Amanda is just a few miles to the north, along this same river.   But I haven't been able to find any references to this section of the river having been a major transportation route at the time of the War of 1812 or in years before or after.   I get the impression that soldiers and other travelers came up from Cincinnati by other routes to the St. Mary's River, then overland to Fort Amanda, then followed this river north.  So I don't ...
  
  
• 01.24.08
  Wapa farm near Wapakoneta
  2005, Auglaize County OH (0)

  The above snippet from the Royce Indian cession map of Ohio shows the approximate route I took on that day in 2005 just before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans. I started at Rockford, on the St. Mary's River, and rode to Stony Creek near Degraff, where Tenkswatawa and Tecumseh had gathered their group of dissidents for a time. There are two circles along the route, one showing where I found those two treatyline road segments in the previous article, and one north of Wapakoneta, where the photo below was taken. I was riding from Buckland to Wapakoneta, along the ...
  
  
• 08.07.07
  3 July 2007 - The End (Virginia Military Tract)
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Auglaize County OH (0)

  This was the final destination for the day -- a piece of county road that marks a tiny part of the boundary between the area known as the Virginia Military Tract and the lands of the rectangular survey system. The military tract is to the right of the road in the photo. It was for Virginia's Revolutionary War veterans, and was part of the deal by which Virginia agreed to the new Confederation with other states. The method of surveying property lines of the military tract was chaotic, and over the years resulted in lots of litigation over ...
  
  

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