Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Fort Recovery and Pike Lake State Park

 





Fort Recovery is a small town in Ohio just across the border from Indiana. It has an interesting history and connection to Fort Wayne, my hometown. The connection was actually a person named "Mad" Anthony Wayne, for whom Fort Wayne is named. I didn't spend much time at Fort Recovery, mainly just looking around the park where the fort is located. 

Pike Lake State Park was featured here before with the Mitchell Ridge Trail entry. The campground here is smaller than most but also less private. It's good for a stopover, though, which is what we use it for. 


















Pike Lake State Park















































Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Mid-America Windmill Museum

 




This is a rather unique museum to visit. I'm naturally attracted to nostalgic places, and this place is like no other. Windmills used to dot the countryside - they were everywhere here in Indiana. So coming here was just like stepping back in time and highly enjoyable as well as educational for me. This is the Mid-America Windmill Museum, located just outside of Kendallville, Indiana (the property abuts the city border). I happened to see a sign for this museum on the road while taking care of an errand and decided that I needed to visit. I'm glad I did. Above is the scene from the parking lot as one walks up towards the visitor center. Of course, the windmills can also be seen as I will show in the pictures below. Closeups of each can be seen on their website link above. 

After the first few pictures, an explanatory sign describes each windmill and then a picture of the windmill appears. Some of the windmills are missing different parts.