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Hardin County OH

• 04.08.09
  Amish-Jewish double-take
  Amish country, Hardin County OH (3)

  On a ride to Upper Sandusky, Ohio last September 29, I was looking for signs of an old reservation boundary in this area. There was one place where the maps had suggested there might be a piece of driveway that still remained from an old piece of road that marked the boundary. I don't think the above driveway was it, but I was a little unsure of exactly where I was at this point, so for a couple of miles stopped and took a photo of every driveway, just to be sure I got it. I could ...
  
  
• 09.09.08
  County Road 265
  Hardin County OH, Logan County OH, Ohio (0)

  This marker is on the south side of the Scioto River, just across from Pfeiffer Station. The previous day and on this morning I had been riding to site's along Hull's Trace, as the route used by the War of 1812 armies came to be known. I should have stuck with that them and ridden more of County Road 265, which seems to follow that route through Hardin County. In Logan County I mostly had to ride to places where I could see at a distance the valleys along which the armies had marched. ...
  
  
• 09.06.08
  Joshua Cope and William Walker
  Hardin County OH (3)

  This is a view of the Wheeler House at Pfeiffer Station. According to a historical marker on the site (where my bicycle is parked) it's the very one that I had hoped might still be in existence. The view is looking down to the road to the west. A Joshua Cope lived two miles down that road. At least I think that's where he lived. The 1879 county atlas shows the property there being owned by J. Cope, which would most likely have been Joshua Cope, Jr. The 1883 history for Hardin County tells us that Mr. and Mrs. ...
  
  
• 09.05.08
  Begging for water
  Amish country, Hardin County OH (0)

  It may have been when I took the photo of the Amish buggy in the previous post that I learned that I did not have another full bottle of water in my pannier, after all. Or it could have been at a previous stop. It was a very hot day -- in the 90s -- and I didn't think riding another 10 miles without water was a good idea. Actually, I was closer to my destination than that, but at the time that's what I thought was ahead of me. My excuse: I was still riding ...
  
  
• 09.04.08
  Bellefontaine to Pfeiffer Station
  Amish country, Hardin County OH, Logan County OH (0)

  This may look like a google map, but it's just a screen shot of one, sort of. It shows the route of yesterday's bike ride and all the places where I stopped to take photos. The temperature was in the 90s with a light wind out of the northeast (the direction where I was headed). Mileage total was about 43. I'm not sure exactly, because the bike is still on the car. We're back home now. I ended my bike ride in a drought-stricken area. An Amish farmer I talked to said it had ...