A short segment of old State Road 67 near Anderson woke up my inner roadgeek

Read time: 9 min.

Although it doesn’t look like much today, from 1937 to 1964 a rural cul-de-sac east of Anderson represented about one ten-thousandth of Indiana’s State Road 67, which stretches diagonally across Indiana from Illinois near Vincennes into Ohio near Bryant. Forty years after it was decommissioned, this little stub became the first old highway alignment I ever discovered. This tiny segment, only measuring a fifth of a mile, woke up my inner roadgeek.

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An old path out of town: Albany’s interurban infrastructure

Read time: 6 min.

Two weeks shy of a year ago, I drove up to Albany, Indiana in northeastern Delaware County to take photos of a couple of old schoolhouses there. I drove southeast on Eaton-Albany Pike -the old road that connects those two communities- and came across something mysterious. 

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