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Mercer County OH

• 06.03.08
  Hurt: The Ohio Frontier
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Mercer County OH (0)

  I've been reading "The Ohio Frontier" by R. Douglas Hurt (1996) in preparation for some riding later this summer. I am now getting to like this book, but was disappointed by some of the first chapters. The chapter titled "Clash of cultures" was not particularly insightful on cultural issues. There was much awkward use of quotations. For example: By 1762, the Wyandots had not made Fort Sandusky "agreeable" for the traders and the garrison. Lieutenant H.C. Pauli, who commanded, warned Bouquet at Fort Pitt that they intended to "have it burnt". and At a council ...
  
  
• 01.21.08
  Greenville Treaty Line
  Bridges, Holmes County OH, Logan County OH, Lucas County OH, Mercer County OH, Ohio (1)

  In my last post I mentioned the possibility of riding to Pennsylvania's Whiskey Rebellion country by way of the Greenville Treaty Line. The above map on the left shows that treaty line as a dashed red line. Well, maybe you have to click to get a larger version to make it out. Or you can go to this site to see higher quality images of this and others of the Charles Royce maps (Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1899) from which it was taken. In late August, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina was heading toward New Orleans, ...
  
  
• 07.31.07
  3 July 2007 - Deep Cut Road
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Auglaize County OH, Mercer County OH (0)

  After getting not as good a breakfast as I had hoped for at Fort Recovery, I headed east toward Fort Amanda. I stopped near the St. Mary's River to watch the wheat harvest at a distance. It was interesting to see how the operator turned such an ungainly-looking piece of machinery with quick, tight turns to finish up an odd end of the field. And here was an opportunity to not only ride in the general vicinity of the St. Mary's River, but see it up close. So I dawdled here for a while, too. ...
  
  
• 07.14.07
  1 July 2007 - Ft Recovery - hanging around
  Amishville base camp - 2007, Mercer County OH (0)

  I hung around Fort Recovery for a while, visiting in addition to the big monument, the museum and the grounds. This is a shot of the reconstructed fort, with the museum in the background. The museum may have been "professionalized" a bit since my last time here -- which has its good and its bad points. Another change was that this time I was able to find a bite to eat -- at a Subway. I took my sandwich onto the battleground to eat in the shade and look at the channel of the old Wabash (behind the flowerbed) ...
  
  
• 07.10.07
  1 July 2007 - Fort Recovery - arrival
  Amish country, Amishville base camp - 2007, Mercer County OH (0)

  The ride to Fort Recovery was mostly easy, on flat roads, though against a wind from the east. It ended up being a little longer than 20 miles from the campground because at one point I thought I had lost my Indiana map, so backtracked a mile to my previous stop to look for it. The wind might have blown it out of the map holder on my handlebar bag. The wind wasn't so strong that it was likely to have blown a long ways away, so I had high hopes of finding it. But it ...