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Erie County OH

• 12.18.07
  Raise him as a chief
  Cass County MI, Erie County OH (0)

  This photo was taken shortly after sunrise on Labor Day, 1999. It's just outside of Castalia, Ohio. The farm of Orlean Putnam's parents was somewhere in the background, and it was probably somewhere near there where the Odawa raiding party captured little Orlean and his mother in 1813. Those two were among those who were kept alive and taken to Detroit, which was then in British hands. The 1882 Cass County (MI) history tells Orlean's story, which includes this part: Orlean Putnam was taken by the chief, who had adopted him, to Detroit. This chief proved to be ...
  
  
• 12.09.07
  Riding in the dark to Castalia, Ohio
  Cass County MI, Erie County OH, Sandusky County OH (0)

  On Labor Day weekend 1998 I did a ride to Castalia, Ohio near Sandusky, and then partway back. Myra said she had been to Sandusky once and wasn't interested in driving there again to pick me up, but some place like Adrian would be OK. The story I was following ended up being one of the most momentous of the Black Hawk Slept Here project for me, because of the additional archival information it led me to. But this bike ride itself was an especially memorable one. It was the first time I set foot ...