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Does the Indian Trail still exist? I read in "Henderson Then and Now" that it used to wind up the hill by the Fort Rd. and end up behind the J.R.B. monument.
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Just go to the bottom of Old Fort Hill and check out the base of the hillside...it's pretty obvious once you get thru the underbrush to the hillside itself....let me know if you still have trouble and I'll guide you....Keith S
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Keith: You mean the switchback walking path up to the Brown Cemetery? I thought that might have been blazed by early settlers making their way by foot up to the cemetery. Maybe they simply followed a trail laid by Indians years prior, I don't know. For sure the trails been there for 150 years. Any evidence of first settlers finding a pre-existing trail and then using it temselves? Horse drawn wagons followed the road (such as it was) to haul supplies to the Army fort at Ridgely...Don Osell
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I walked the trail last week and it's still in good shape!
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Monroe Tiegs and I used the trail often in 1940 or so when we tapped maple trees on top of the Brown Cemetery Hill. Just a few feet north of the JRB spire is a large maple tree (still there, I believe) that we named "Old Faithful" because even then it was large enough to handle about three taps and produced a lot of sap. Sixty+ years ago it was probably 60 years old so it's an old tree. The path then was a well worn one. It's nice to see some things endure.Of course, more people walked to the Cemetery then than would be the case now. The auto has made us lazy...Don Osell
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The Boy Scouts spent many hours restoring the trail about 40 years ago and it seems to be in pretty good shape yet. I believe Curt Blaschko, Marcus Weist and my self did a little work on it too when we worked on the CETA program during the summer of 1977. Curt and I did most of the work and Marcus supplied moral support.
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