Lodging and Accommodation This article concludes the series that remembers travel and transportation in the years following the founding of the state of Indiana. There were many inns and lodging…
Posts published in “Indiana’s Bicentennial”
David Hoover is credited with choosing the location of a new Quaker settlement that would one day become the city of Richmond. He was a surveyor by trade, and when…
The Treaty of Greenville in 1795 established a line across northern Ohio then from Fort Recovery southwest to the mouth of the Kentucky River. Surveyors at the time marked the…
The log cabin that is currently situated behind the Mansion House in Centerville started in the town of Salisbury well more than 200 years ago. Wayne County’s first seat of…
The oldest existing school in Wayne County can be seen today on the grounds of the Wayne County Historical Museum on North A Street, but it’s been situated in a…
Elkhorn Creek flows into the east fork of the Whitewater River about seven miles southwest of Richmond, a location within a few miles of Wayne County’s first settlement which was…
Stagecoaches – Icons of Westward Travel Later in the life of the National Road when the surface was improved, stagecoaches made their way into Richmond. Let us imagine a traveler…
Prairie Schooners – Moving Vans of a Bygone Era Pictured is an old Conestoga wagon housed at the Wayne County Historical Museum. This wagon is not from the area, having…
Part One – Traveling the National Road The origins of the National Road (also known then as the Cumberland Road) go back well before the birth of our nation. Other roads…
Part IV – Clothing the Family Among the many responsibilities an Indiana pioneer woman had, one of the most continuous, next to feeding her growing family, was keeping them clothed. Clothing…