Tag: old alignments
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Discovering where the old road used to go
My old map collection was featured in a newspaper article this week. I talk about it in more detail in this post.
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Puzzle solved: The National Road at Pleasant Gardens and Reelsville in Indiana
Thanks to some excellent research by Richard Simpson, the puzzle of the old National Road alignments at Reelsville, IN, is solved!
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The house on Best Road, on Ohio’s National Road
In the rugged terrain of eastern Ohio, 20th-century improvements to US 40 left plenty of old National Road alignments behind. One of them in Guernsey County is signed as Best Road. There are two reasons I stopped to photograph Best Road. The first was that it towers over current US 40. The road’s realignment cut…
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Road trip season is almost here
I like to fill my spare spring and summer Saturdays taking road trips. And I don’t mean “let’s drive to Chicago for the weekend” – I mean exploring the old two-lane highways, just taking in the countryside and enjoying the small towns along the way. The journey is the destination! Also, as these old roads were straightened,…
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The Bedford puzzle
Bedford is a small Indiana city at the crossroads of US 50 and State Road 37. These major highways attract heavy through traffic, so much so that they have been realigned in and around Bedford several times. But once upon a time, back when US 50 was still Old State Road 4 and State Road…
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Road textures on Old US 50 in Indiana
Vallonia and the Medora Covered Bridge were great, but the part of this trip to which I looked most forward was the eleven or so miles of old US 50 that are country roads today, in Jackson and Lawrence Counties. At last, my travel buddy and I reached them, and they were every bit as…
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Strolling through Vallonia on Old US 50 in southern Indiana
A walk through Vallonia, a town on a former alignment of US 50 in southern Indiana.
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Roadsleuthing
How I find the old road alignments, explained.
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The National Road in western Indiana
I blogged for weeks last year about my August trip down the National Road (US 40) from Indianapolis to the Illinois line. I shared stories, facts, and photos of the former alignments, neon signs, old bridges, grand homes, and faded towns. It was a great trip! But, you see, I didn’t share everything. There are…