Serendipitous photos have often been helpful to my research, like when I came across an image of someone’s old V-Twin motorcycle taken around 1915 that happened to feature Salem Township’s long-demolished Davis schoolhouse in the background. Today, the tables have turned: last November, I took an iPhone photo of the Graham Furniture building in Chesterfield that incidentally showed its old sign. Yesterday, I noticed it was gone! Maybe my image will be of use to someone in the far-flung future.
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An old alignment of Indiana State Road 67 near Daleville
I’ve been hooked on exploring the old roads ever since I was fourteen and stumbled across a residential cul-de-sac that once carried Indiana State Road 67 from Anderson towards Muncie. I’ve never really written about them, but the back roads between the two cities have basically been my back yard for the past thirty years! This bypassed part of State Road 67 once connected them.
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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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