By bicycle it was about a 13 mile ride between the Shawnee encampment site and here. I don’t know how much of my route, if any, would have been the path McPherson had taken to get there.
This site is on land that in 1874 was owned by a Kavanaugh. The stream is the Mad River. Not that there is any point in getting hung up on an exact location. Another passage in the 1881 history says McPherson’s place was on the Samuel Black farm:
(Sept 26, cont). I was on my way to Section 31 in Salem Township, where I could cross the Mad River. James McPherson was said to have lived near the river there. James McPherson is the person who had lived with the Shawnee people for some time after having been captured in 1781 in the [...]
(Sept. 26, cont.) This is just an old barn, less than a mile east of the esker. I like the color effect that soybeans give to the landscape when they start to dry. I looked on the old maps and county histories to see if there was anything interesting about the people who lived here. [...]
the Siegenthaler-Kaestner Esker State Nature Preserve. The big esker is visible in the background of this photo, but I did not figure out where it was while standing here, taking this photo. If I had known, I could have asked the cow to move her butt just a little so it would stand out better.
(September 26, cont.) The village at the top of the hill ahead is Springhills, Ohio. My brakes weren’t adjusted the best, but I was able to stop on this downhill when it occurred to me that I should get a photo. I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but the stream at the bottom [...]
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