The Spokesrider

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 [...]

…the low ground at the base of the hill is an occasional waterway that leads to Stony Creek to the north (to the left on the photo). If I can trust Eckert’s map to tell me, the 1806 encampment of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa had been bounded on the northeast by Stony Creek, on the northwest by the occasional waterway I had photographed a couple miles back, and on the southeast by this one. So there may have been water on three sides, if there had been water flowing in these two now-temporary streams.

According to the 1880 history of Logan County, this area wasn’t settled until after the War of 1812. There was a church here, known at one time as Olive Chapel. There is no sign of it now.

(September 26, continued) This is looking north on County Road 63, a half mile or so south of the falling-down bridge across Stony Creek. The marker that used to be on the bridge seems to be saying that the Tecumseh-Tenskwatawa encampment was in this area. Their village is referred to as Old Town. I’m not [...]

(September 26, continued.) From DeGraff I rode south of town to the bridge across Stony Creek on County Road 63. In an old post I had told about my trip to this bridge in 2005. At that time Ken remarked on how badly deteriorated this bridge was. It was now three years later and the [...]

He was the son of a James Murphy who happened to be one of the early settlers — one of those who came prior to the War of 1812. He may not have lived here at the time of the war, though.

(September 26, continued) This is another view looking north from the high ground a mile north of Logansville — ground on which the Vance fort may have stood during the war of 1812. The Greenville Treaty line is a couple of miles north of here. The marker back in Logansville lists blockhouses, including this one, [...]