Day Four- Canal Fulton
21 miles- In 1817 a canal was started to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. Known as the Erie Canal, it opened in 1825 and immediately increased commerce and the fortunes of those...
Monthly Archive: May 2024
Day Three- Green, OH
16 miles- The year was 1898 and a guy named Frank Seiberling opened a company that made poker chips, horseshoe pads, and carriage and bicycle tires. He named the company after the long dead...
Day Two-Mogadore Res.
21 miles- Up at 4AM to pack up and make breakfast for a 5AM start. It was a 2.4 mile walk into the campground from the road yesterday, so, unsurprisingly, it was a 2.4...
Day One-West Branch SP
18 miles. I will start with yesterday, wherein my cousin and his wife hosted a family reunion. A gathering of the living cousins on my Dad’s side of the family, along with spouses and...
Ohio
Greetings from Ohio! Named after the river that the Iroquois called “ohi-yo” meaning “the great river.” The area has been inhabited for the last 12,000 years. First by the Paleo-Peoples who likely followed the...
4 responses to “Ohio”
Happy trails amigo.
Thanks, OZ!
O-H-Ten! I had no idea what the King gave to the state of Connecticut. We stopped in Cuyahoga Falls on our honeymoon (we were driving from NY to AZ so I could go to grad school at Arizona State). Hannah’s college roommate set up a canoe trip on the Cuyahoga on this July 4, 1972. That was the time when the Cuyahoga caught fire near Cleveland. The river water was so polluted you couldn’t see your hand in the water if you even wanted to put it in!
Charles II was a generous guy.