Amishville (July 2007)
A long weekend ride to check up on a Black Hawk war scare story south of Fort Wayne wouldn’t have left much time to visit the sites, much less do research in the local libraries. So instead, we drove to Amishville USA near Geneva and camped there for a few day. From there I rode to places associated with the life of Allen Norcross, finding them with the help of information in the Wells County library in Bluffton. There were also a couple of long rides, one along treaty boundaries in Randolph County, and one to an edge of the Virginia Military Tract in Ohio.
This kind of outing worked out so well that we did several more like it over the next few years.
Blog articles about these rides:
- Hurt: The Ohio Frontier
- Allen Norcross's gravestone
- 3 July 2007 - The End (Virginia Military Tract)
- 3 July 2007 - St. John's, Ohio
- 3 July 2007 - Fort Amanda
- 3 July 2007 - Random cemetery
- 3 July 2007 - Deep Cut Road
- 3 July 2007 - Indiana-Ohio border
- Murray, Indiana: the more things change...
- 2 July 2007 - Murray Cemetery to Decatur to campground
- 1 July 2007 - treaty line corner to end of Randolph Co.
- When was the survey done?
- 1 July 2007 - Salamonia to treaty line corner
- 1 July 2007 - Fort Recovery to Salamonia
- 1 July 2007 - Ft Recovery - hanging around
- 1 July 2007 - Fort Recovery - arrival
- 1 Jul 2007 - Part 1 - to Fort Recovery
- 30 Jun 2007 - Starter ride to Murray
- 4th of July holiday ride
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