Day of rest
I had a nice overnight bike ride this weekend. Yesterday afternoon I rode 65 miles to Mongo, Indiana. Today I did a leisurely 39 miles to Ligonier. Yearly mileage to date: 837.7. I took several gravel...
View ArticleHawpatch Road
Over at Amish America, Erik was commenting on how the part of the LaGrange-Elkhart settlement that lies east of Emma (in LaGrange county) is one of his favorites to visit. Well, there’s a road through...
View ArticleMore Hawpatch Road
Most of the buildings along Hawpatch Road are neat and Amish white. But there are a couple of derelict buildings. One is a church. The other is this old school. At least I presume it was a school....
View ArticleNasby Dam
This road, from the beginning of last Sunday’s ride, is now added to my list of favorites. It’s not quite in the same league as the Hawpatch Road, but it’s a pleasant 5-mile stretch where the motorized...
View ArticleDavid Rogers Park
The David Rogers Park is near the south end of HawPatch road, at the head of a branch of the Elkhart River. I nominate it for the world’s most tranquil, refreshing rural park. Maybe it’s different when...
View ArticleDavid Rogers, land speculator
Douglas Hurt writes about land speculators in “The Ohio Frontier” (1996). Smaller property owners resented the land speculators, not because they owned more land than everyone else, but because they...
View ArticleMistaken memory
Last week, in telling about the previous Sunday’s ride, I explained how after taking a mile of gravel road, I came to a place where I decided to continue on gravel instead of taking the paved road....
View ArticleHawville
I’ve already written about the surprise of my first-ever ride to Topeka in LaGrange County, Indiana. This was the road by which I rode on that day in 1997. The above sign about “Life in the Past Lane”...
View ArticleNoble commodities
One of the things that the rectangular survey system did was turn land into a commodity that could be easily identified, bought, and sold. Perhaps Adam Engle was someone who did a lot of trading in...
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