One of the mantras for those who camp or canoe or spend any time at all in public lands is “leave no trace.” The idea and ethic that having visited somewhere you should leave it as you found it for the next person to enjoy. Documenting LaGrange County is all about the traces that people leave behind. Houses, buildings, towns, cemeteries and bridges. Even, as is pictured here, an anonymous farmer’s roadside tree row.
Are we looking south on the first road east of Ontario? Looks just like it.
If so, this is right about where the old Lima Plank Road ended at Ontario. There’s a tree line angling toward the northwest and the plank road once followed it right up to the site of the former LaGrange Collegiate Institute, the remains of which were wiped out in the 1965 Palm Sunday tornadoes.
A lot of people claim Old State Road 3 was the route of the plank road, but I question this. The remains of the road at Ontario merge into what is known as the Angling Road, an old Indian trail which leads back to Kendallville. It forks off of Old 3 just north of U.S. 6.
Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation
Anyway … nice blog to visit.
cheers, Pillaging!