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• 05.09.08
  Battle Hollow Road
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (1)

  Back to my before-breakfast ride on 9 Sept 2004. This is one of the old historical markers that marks the last events of the Black Hawk war. I wanted to visit Battle Hollow. It was one mile by crow from this sign, but a little farther by road. There have been discussions on the phred bicycle touring list about the suitability of Hwy 35 for bicycle touring. It's the road on the east side of the Mississippi. Battle Hollow Road is a gravel road that leads away from it and gently up the ...
  
  
• 05.07.08
  Campground at Victory
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)

  I had planned to do just the one post from the Black Hawk war zone and then get back to posting about the day I spent in Nate Shaw's backyard. But now I'm distracted by the other photos I took on 9 September 2004. That was the summer we decided we were getting a bit old for using my backpacking tent for our car/bicycle camping trips. So we decided to become degenerate and get a bigger tent in which we could camp in luxury. It's shown here, at the Army Corps of Engineers campground ...
  
  
• 05.06.08
  Where did you put that marker?
  Black Hawk war zone tour - 2004, Vernon County WI (0)

  Eric Scheske at The Daily Eudemon posted a bit of trivia about a historical marker: Historical marker on U.S. 11 in Mississippi: John L. Sullivan defeated Jack Kilrain for heavyweight championship in a 75 round fight on July 8, 1889, at Richburg, 3 miles southwest of this spot. This was the last official bare-knuckle bout. Jim Ruland in the March 2008 issue of The Oxford American writes: “Historical markers are notorious for being inaccurate, but this one is ridiculously vague. Three miles? . . . And since Sullivan mauled Kilrain with his bare hands, which made the fight illegal, how could the fight ...
  
  

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