Amishville USA (ride report, July 2007)

From Black Hawk Slept Here

Just before the 4th of July holiday, I did four days of bike rides from a base camp at the Amishland campground near Geneva, Indiana.

• Murray, Indiana (ride report, June 30, 2007) -- Allen Norcross and other early settlers had fled this area during the Black Hawk war.

• Fort Recovery and 1809 Treaty Line (ride report, July 1, 2007) -- A 70-mile ride to the south end of Randolph County, following the line of the 1809 Treaty of Fort Wayne.

• Decatur, Indiana (ride report, July 2, 2007) -- The first part the day was spent at the library in Bluffton, where I looked for more information on Allen Norcross and the early settlers (and had a successful wild goose chase in the newspaper archives, too). Then I did a 36 mile ride that took me from Murray to Decatur and then back to the campground.

• Auglaize County, Ohio (ride report, July 3, 2007) -- A 77 mile ride to the far end of Auglaize County, Ohio, to a point where the land of the rectangular survey system butts up against the Virginia Military Tract.

The following are my blog entries about it. They are a sort of first draft of what will go here:

• A link to the whole set - 16 articles

1. 4th of July holiday ride
2. 30 Jun 2007 - Starter ride to Murray
3. 1 Jul 2007 - Part 1 - to Fort Recovery
4. 1 July 2007 - Fort Recovery - arrival
5. 1 July 2007 - Ft Recovery - hanging around
6. 1 July 2007 - Fort Recovery to Salamonia
7. 1 July 2007 - Salamonia to treaty line corner
8. When was the survey done?
9. 1 July 2007 - Treaty line corner to end of Randolph Co.
10. 2 July 2007 - Murray Cemetery to Decatur to campground
11. 3 July 2007 - Indiana-Ohio border
12. 3 July 2007 - Deep Cut Road
13. 3 July 2007 - Random cemetery
14. 3 July 2007 - Fort Amanda
15. 3 July 2007 - St. John’s, Ohio
16. 3 July 2007 - The End (Virginia Military Tract)

-- JBG