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Champaign County OH

• 01.14.09
  Lot 104
  Champaign County OH (0)

  John W. Ogden, the writer of the 1881 history of Champaign County, was interested in some of the same details as I am -- such as exactly where on the landscape did the events of long ago take place? In the following section he describes the use that was made of Urbana's "Lot No. 104" during the War of 1812. It's the lot that's across the street in this photo. I took the photo at the end of my September 26, 2008 bike ride, when there was not a lot of light left in the day. From the first settlement, ...
  
  
• 12.27.08
  I would have picked a different route for General Hull
  Champaign County OH, Logan County OH (0)

  I now see that back on September 2, in an article titled "Hull's Trace in the Mad River Valley," I gave out some bogus information about the route that General William Hull's army took in 1812 as it marched from Urbana, OH to Detroit. That day I rode to the east where I should have ridden to the west. In a way it's OK, though. There is actually a road to the east, and it took me to some of the prettiest scenery of the day. I learned about it while getting carried ...
  
  
• 12.25.08
  Google Earth and Shawnee village location
  Champaign County OH (0)

  It didn't take long to figure out how to convert those files from my Sony GPS-CS1 to KML files that can be used in Google Earth. Step 1. We had Christmas dinner. (I hope your Christmas was good, too.) Step 2. I went to GPS Visualiser and used their converter, selecting Google Maps for the output. Step 3. I went to Everytrail.com and saved the result there. (I don't think this step was really necessary, but it was fun to do it. Note that the car portion of the trip was quite a bit faster than the bicycle part. It even ...
  
  
• 12.25.08
  GPS-CS1
  Champaign County OH, Logan County OH, Shelby County OH (2)

  This is a screen shot from the output of my Sony GPS, a GPS-CS1. It's from the September 26 ride from Fort Loramie (in the upper left) to Urbana, OH (lower right). I usually attach the device to the outside of the single pannier I carry with me, or else put it inside on days when there might be rain. At the end of the ride I throw the pannier in the back of the car and forget to turn it off, with the result that our car ride back to the motel is shown, too. ...
  
  
• 12.23.08
  Kingston on King’s Creek
  Champaign County OH (2)

  I'm still not finished telling about the September 26 ride from Fort Loramie to Urbana, Ohio. By the time I reached King's Creek, shown in this photo, I had already decided to end the day's ride at Urbana. This was the second-to-last remaining destination of my revised route plan. There had been a mill here -- actually behind where I was standing when I took the photo. During the War of 1812 two blockhouses had been erected by the mill, according to Joshua Antrim's 1872 history of the county. Why two of them, the author didn't say. Usually people would not want ...
  
  

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