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11.14.08Stony Creek bridge is falling down
Logan County OH (0)(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 bridge was in much worse condition. And the historical marker that was there in 2005 (above) was gone. BTW, this marker had said the meeting of Kenton and Tecumseh took place a quarter mile north. Or maybe it was trying to say the sign was ...
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11.13.08Lonesome James
Logan County OH (0)(September 26, continued) Finally I had the wind at my back as I rode from the Vance Fort location back to Logansville and then to DeGraff. Just before I got to DeGraff I stopped at this windmill. There weren't any No Trespassing signs, so I invited myself to go take a closer look. My GPS says it was at a location identified on the 1875 atlas of Logan County as belonging to a John Murphy. (The base map above is courtesy of Historic Map Works. If you click on it, you'll go to the page containing the map for the entire ...
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11.10.08Vance fort, part 2
Logan County OH (0)(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, that were built along the treaty line, but I suppose a point a couple of miles away can still be considered to be along that line. The blockhouses would have been placed where they could best protect settlers, and here is where some of the very first ...
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11.09.08Vance blockhouse
Logan County OH (0)(September 26, continued) I didn't have any trouble finding the historic marker that Jeff had told me about. Jeff had told me the marker used to be different. Once upon a time a marker had said the blockhouse was a mile east. This one says a mile north. This marker was placed in 1955, so that's not just a recent change. I think I know where the "mile east" came from, though. The 1880 county history says this on page 458: During the war of 1812, the utmost alarm and uneasiness prevailed in the scattered settlements by reason of which the Government ordered ...
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11.03.08Shocking corn
Logan County OH (2)(September 26, continued) There is an Amish community on the east side of the Great Miami River near Logansville. Three years ago I had seen an Amish buggy roadsign, but no signs of Amish people or farms. I repeated some of the same route this year and saw plenty of both. This field of shocked corn was right on the edge of town at a place where I could walk up close to it. Years ago, in the early 80s, my kids and I had tried shocking some corn to feed our sheep. It was a bad ...
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