Biking Through History

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

EASY MODERATE DIFFICULT / HEAVY TRAFFIC GRAVEL

Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

IN MADISON AND

JEFFERSON COUNTY

INDIANA

Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

EASY MODERATE DIFFICULT / HEAVY TRAFFIC GRAVEL

Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

IN MADISON AND

JEFFERSON COUNTY

INDIANA

Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

EASY MODERATE DIFFICULT / HEAVY TRAFFIC GRAVEL

Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

IN MADISON AND

JEFFERSON COUNTY

INDIANA

Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

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Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

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This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

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Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

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Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

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This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

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The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

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Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

Big

N Little Rest Farm Rd

This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

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Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

HANOVER

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

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China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

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Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

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Morgan Historic Marker

EASTERN HILLS

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Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

700S

N Little Rest Farm Rd

Tobias Bridge

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Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

Big

N Little Rest Farm Rd

This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

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Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

HANOVER

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

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China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

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250

Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

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Morgan Historic Marker

EASTERN HILLS

Canaan

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Hanover College

John Finley Crowe House

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Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

700S

N Little Rest Farm Rd

Tobias Bridge

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Dupont

Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

Big

N Little Rest Farm Rd

This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

750N Grave Road W 700

SR

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Tibbets Historic Marker SR 25

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Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

HANOVER

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church

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China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

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250

Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

E Geyman Rd

Morgan Historic Marker

EASTERN HILLS

Canaan

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Hanover College

John Finley Crowe House

62

Chelsea General Store

Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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Holly Hills Rd

The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Logan’s Point

Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Main Cross St

Lagra

Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

700S

N Little Rest Farm Rd

Tobias Bridge

Morgan Historic Marker N Breeding Rd

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Lancaster

Rector Road

250

1040 N

Neil's Creek Schoolhouse

N9 33 W

Paris Crossing

N Craddock Rd

LANCASTER-DEPUTY

Dupont

Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

Big

N Little Rest Farm Rd

This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

750N Grave Road W 700

SR

7

7

Tibbets Historic Marker SR 25

0

Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

HANOVER

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Logan’s Point

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Saluda Gymnasium

Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

The forest is often very wet, especially in the spring, but is usually dry by the middle of summer.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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550 W

Chelsea Flatwoods

Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church

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Old 62

S Carmel Rd

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Warman Rd

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

62

250

Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

E Geyman Rd

Morgan Historic Marker

EASTERN HILLS

Canaan

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S Hanover Saluda Rd

Hanover College

John Finley Crowe House

62

Chelsea General Store

Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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Holly Hills Rd

The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Logan’s Point

Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

NH

Main Cross St

Lagra

Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

700S

N Little Rest Farm Rd

Tobias Bridge

Morgan Historic Marker N Breeding Rd

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Lancaster

Rector Road

250

1040 N

Neil's Creek Schoolhouse

N9 33 W

Paris Crossing

N Craddock Rd

LANCASTER-DEPUTY

Dupont

Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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Deputy

0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

Big

N Little Rest Farm Rd

This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

750N Grave Road W 700

SR

7

7

Tibbets Historic Marker SR 25

0

Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

HANOVER

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Saluda Gymnasium

Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Chelsea Flatwoods

Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church

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Old 62

S Carmel Rd

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Warman Rd

Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

62

250

Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

E Geyman Rd

Morgan Historic Marker

EASTERN HILLS

Canaan

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S Hanover Saluda Rd

Hanover College

John Finley Crowe House

62

Chelsea General Store

Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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Holly Hills Rd

The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Logan’s Point

Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

NH

Main Cross St

Lagra

Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

700S

N Little Rest Farm Rd

Tobias Bridge

Morgan Historic Marker N Breeding Rd

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Lancaster

Rector Road

250

1040 N

Neil's Creek Schoolhouse

N9 33 W

Paris Crossing

N Craddock Rd

LANCASTER-DEPUTY

Dupont

Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

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This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

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Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

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Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

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Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

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China - St. Anthony’s

This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

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Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

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Manville Christian Church

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to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

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0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, R 700W; 0.3 John and Sarah Tibbets Historical Marker; 1.3 Cross IN7 to 750N; or R IN7, L Middlefork Rd; 2.3 L Middlefork Rd; 2.8 R Foltz Rd; 3.8 Foltz; 4.5 L Breeding Rd; 6.6 Morgan Historic Marker; 7.0 L 1050N; 8.0 Dupont; 8.5 L IN7; 9.0 R 700S; 10 L Little Rest Farm Rd; 13.6 L IN250 (No sign); 14.3 Lancaster

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Rev. Thomas Craven founded Eleutherian College in 1848 with the vision of educating all Americans regardless of gender or race. Lancaster was home to many abolitionists who supported Craven’s ideals, including the Hoyt and Tibbets families whose homes still stand. The main building on college hill was built between 1853 and 1856.

Hundreds of students passed through its doors, many of whom continued the fight against slavery as teachers and ministers. Following the Civil War, Eleutherean struggled as the abolitionist movement faded and more schools opened for African Americans. The college closed in 1887, but the building operated as a public school until 1937. www.eleutheriancollege.org

Lick Branch Baptist W Foltz Rd

Deputy Pike

Foltz Church

Lancaster - Deputy Directions 0.0 Miles Eleutherean College, L IN250, L Rector Road; 3.5 R Deputy Pike 8.2 Lick Branch Baptist Church and Cemetery; 10.2 Pisgah United Methodist Church and Cemetery; 12.5 Deputy; 14.2 R N1500W; 15 R N1550W, Continue onto Dixon Ford Rd; 17.2 R IN250 (No sign); 17.6 Follow IN250 across IN3; 18.2 R N1360W to Tobias Bridge (1.6 mile RT); 25 Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse; 29.2 Lancaster

Middlefork Rd

Lick Branch Baptist Church, Founded 1824

Deputy Pike

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This quiet crossroads is the perfect example of a Midwestern “ghost town.” In its prime, Lancaster was a thriving community with mills, factories, stores, and a small college.

Lack of railroad commerce and westward migration caused the village’s steady decline after the Civil War, but many traces of its former character remain.

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Eleutherean College

Hoyt House

Lancaster

Lyman and Asenath Hoyt House

Dupont

Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse

Deputy

Tobias Bridge

Deputy was founded in 1871 along the railroad to Louisville. A typical railroad town, Deputy served as the trading center for local farmers and merchants. The trains also brought thousands of people to Deputy every spring for camp revival meetings held just east of town.

Just before entering Paris, turn right toward the Tobias Bridge along a gravel road (1360W) that historically connected Deputy and Paris. Restored in 2004, this bridge is the last functioning example of the iron bridges that spanned the creeks of Jefferson County for much of the twentieth century. Note the unique decorative elements on the portals and the large stone abutments grounding the bridge amid quicksand in the creek bed.

From Main Street, turn right on 3rd Street, then right onto Mulberry Street, passing the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church, c. 1883. Next to the church was the home of “Doc” Robertson, who ran his practice out of the small building on the left. It is said that during the influenza outbreak of 1918 Dr. Robertson did not loose a single patient.

Crow House and Historic Marker

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When John Finley Crowe founded the Hanover Academy in 1827 there were six students in a log cabin. Today Hanover College is the oldest private college in Indiana. The picturesque campus is ideal for a brief and relaxing ride, especially along Scenic Drive. Much of the campus was built in the Colonial Revival style following World War II. Two remnants from the older campus are the old Wishing Well, c. 1900, and the Hendricks Library, c. 1903. Classic Hall once stood on “The Point” at the end of campus, overlooking a stunning view of the Ohio River.

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Crowe Street was the site of Hanover College’s humble beginnings. The house to the right has grown around a two-room house built by John Finley Crowe in 1823.

Just to the left stood the log cabin where he held his first classes. Across the street, Hanover Presbyterian Church was the hub of the small campus before the college moved to its present location in 1850.

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Hanover Directions 0.0 Miles Hanover College; 0.5 Crowe House and Historic Marker; 0.7 L Main Cross St; 1.5 Continue onto S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 4.5 Continue straight onto 550W; 5.5 R 600S/W Prospect Rd; 6.0 Saluda High School and Gymnasium; 7.3 Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve; 7.5 Chelsea General Store; Return - L (East) 600S; 9.0 L 600W/S Hanover-Saluda Rd; 10.0 Continue straight on 600W; 10.5 Continue R onto W Warman Rd; 10.8 R 625W/S Carmel Rd; 13.1 R W Foster Rd; 14.6 L Hanover-Saluda Rd; 15.6 R Main St; 16.0 Hanover College

Saluda High School and Gymnasium Chelsea Flatwoods Nature Preserve

Chelsea Flatwoods presents the Southern Indiana landscape as the earliest pioneers found it. Wetland forests covered the region before homesteaders cleared the trees for farmland. Hikers will find a multitude of tree species including sugar maple, American beech, and many oaks. Native ferns and wildflowers blanket the shaded ground.

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Follow Cemetery Road to Hanover Cemetery and Logan’s Point, a modern neighborhood with a surprising history. According to local lore, George Logan was the first American to explore the area around Hanover.

He climbed the bluffs from the Ohio River to this ridge after a storm beached his boat in 1801. The scene so impressed Logan that he returned to build his farm in 1816.

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Left on Madison Ave, Left on Pine Ridge Rd, Left on Cemetery Rd.

Jefferson Lake Rd 300 E

Ten Cent Rd

Reardon Rd

The hamlet of Ryker’s Ridge is nearly as old as Madison. The Ryker family built their first homesteads here in 1811. In the following decades hundreds of escaped slaves found refuge among their farms.

Eagle Hollow to the south was the most active route in the county’s Underground Railroad network. Chapman Harris, a Free Black farmer and preacher, conducted freedom seekers from his home on the river up the narrow valley to safe havens on the ridge.

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This stone marker notes the campsite of Confederate General John Hunt Morgan and his troops when they overran Dupont during their famous raid through Indiana and Ohio in 1863.

Locals will tell you that Morgan’s men actually camped on the other side of Big Creek, where they could make a fast escape from the Union troops fast on their heels.

Ryker’s Ridge

Dry Fork Rd

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Right on Presbyterian Ave, Left on Crowe Street W 400 S

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Continue along Main Street through a row of historic homes built between 1840 and 1910, and stop outside the Deputy Methodist Episcopal Church to learn more about Morgan’s raid.

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The red brick building on W Front St street is likely the oldest in town, dating to 1840. It housed Dupont’s first store before serving as a school and boarding house.

At the far end of the street is a hidden gem. This Greek Revival cottage, built in 1847, was home to Dupont’s first doctor, Levi Butler. While exploring town, stop in at the J&R Grocery, a beautifully preserved 1915 market and a great place for drinks, sandwiches, and conversation with the locals.

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Foster Rd

John and Sarah Tibbets Historic Marker

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The Hoyts were co-founders of the Neil’s Creek Anti-slavery Society in 1839.

They helped many escaped slaves continue on their way to freedom, hiding them in their barn and nearby caves.

The noise of steaming trains and drifts of hogs filled the air of Dupont in the 1800s. Dr. James Tilton founded Dupont in 1839 along the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad. The village flourished as the last major stop above Madison and the Ohio River.

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Hanover College

Nestled along IN250 are the remains of Neil’s Creek Schoolhouse, c. 1878.

One-room schoolhouses were common across the countryside, where students of all ages learned together.

Schoolhouses were also meeting places for local farming communities.

Families gathered here often, enjoying outdoor dances, pageants, and traveling preachers.

LANCASTER-DUPONT Lancaster-Dupont Directions

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Dupont

Manville Christian Church

Ryker’s Ridge

to Madison via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow

Eastern Hills Directions 0.0 Miles King’s Daughter’s Hospital, R IN62; 3.2 L IN62, China – St. Anthony’s Catholic Church; 4.7 R IN250; 4.9 R E Geyman Rd; 6.7 L N Bacon Ridge Rd 7.8 Continue L on Bacon Ridge Rd; 8.4 L IN250/IN-62, R N Flatbottom Rd; 8.9 R 900N; 9.5 R Main St, Canaan; 10.0 L Vine St; 10.2 R IN250/IN62; 10.5 Continue straight onto 850N/N Halls Ridge Rd; 10.8 R N Hall’s Ridge Rd; 12.6 R Dry Fork Rd; 15.6 L China-Manville Rd; 18.7 R Crum Rd, Manville; 18.9 R Wolf Run Rd; 22.6 R 300E, Ryker’s Ridge; 23.3 L Jefferson Lake Rd; 24.4 Old State Rd 62; 25.5 L IN62; 26.3 King’s Daughter’s Hospital, L IN62 (From Madison – Approx. 3.5 miles via Telegraph Hill or Dugan Hollow to Ryker’s Ridge)

St. Anthony’s Catholic Church was the heart of the German immigrant community in China. These farmers fled the economic and political turmoil of Germany in the 1840s and settled along the Indian-Kentuck Creek, where they found good farmland reminiscent of their homeland. These immigrants embraced their new home, yet held fast to their Old World heritage. They founded St. Anthony’s in a log cabin in 1861, and German speaking priests travelled to China from St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Madison. The present church was completed in 1869.

In 1870, St. Anthony’s School opened and students were taught in German until the school closed in 1916.

Canaan

John Cain laid out the village of Canaan in 1836. Although it was never a large settlement, Canaan was an important market for the farmers in the area.

Canaan was also the educational hub of Eastern Jefferson County. Thirteen schoolhouses sent students on to the Shelby Township High School, which stood in Canaan from 1872 until 1960.

The Canaan Cemetery dates to 1812 and is the resting place of Revolutionary War and Civil War veterans. Canaan hosts an annual Fall Festival highlighted by a reenactment of the historic Pony Express route to Madison.

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

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Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

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Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

EASY MODERATE DIFFICULT / HEAVY TRAFFIC GRAVEL

Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

IN MADISON AND

JEFFERSON COUNTY

INDIANA

Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.

MADISON

Greiner Brewery

Turn Right on Aulenbauch Ave. to Ryker’s Ridge

Springdale Cemetery

German immigrants brought their brewing traditions with them to Madison. Jacob Salmon opened the first brewery here in 1823. Mathew Greiner moved from Cincinnati in 1854 and built his brewery on the same site. Greiner was best known for his Famous Madison XXX Ale, which sold in cities as far as New Orleans.

Georgetown Historic Marker John Paul Park Heritage Trail

Incline Marker

Eagle Cotton Mill

St. Michaels Catholic Church Shotgun Houses

Greiner’s Brewery Visitor’s Center

Eagle Cotton Mill

Shotgun Houses These simple houses were common among working class families who built their homes near the factories where they worked. Visitors can still find shotgun houses integrated among the old mansions and townhomes of the factory owners.

Heritage Trail The Heritage Trail follows the old railroad from the west end of Vaughn Drive to a paved section, north of Crooked Creek, that ascends the wooded hillside to the State Hospital. The trail is a steep climb for cyclists, but it offers a beautiful view of the river valley and safe access to the hilltop.

Madison Incline The Madison incline is possibly the most important historic site in Madison.

Completed in 1841, the incline connected the Ohio River to Central and Northern Indiana along the state’s first railroad. There were no other rail lines or nearby cities to compete with Madison, and the city’s population nearly doubled within ten years.

Old Riverfront

Much of the historic district was built during this era. By the 1860s, Madison’s isolation became its undoing as competing railroads avoided the steep descent in favor of other cities like Indianapolis and Louisville.

John Paul Park and Springdale Cemetery Named after one of Madison’s founders, John Paul Park was once the city’s first cemetery. Today the park is a secluded and peaceful corner of the city. In 1839 the graves were moved down the hill to Springdale Cemetery.

Georgetown The east side of Madison was home to a tense mixture of African Americans, Irish, and German immigrants. Georgetown, a small but prosperous Free Black community, emerged along Walnut Street. In addition to schools, churches, and businesses, Georgetown was a critical stop on the Underground Railroad. Elijah Anderson and George DeBaptist, along with many others, helped escaped slaves cross the Ohio River into

Madison and guided them out of town to Lancaster and Ryker’s Ridge.

There were also strong pro-slavery sentiments in Madison. In 1839, a mob raided Georgetown, resulting in shoot-outs with the residents and the attempted drowning of former slave Griffin Booth. Doughfaces chased many of Georgetown’s leaders out of town before the Civil War.

The Lancaster-Dupont ride is another easy to moderate course on the northern edge of Jefferson County. Cyclists can discover the story of the abolitionist community at Eleutherian College, and Indiana’s Civil War history in Dupont.

The Eastern Hills route offers the most challenging and scenic rides in the county. Riders wind along the ridges and valleys of the Indian-Kentuck Creek, encountering early farming communities on the way.

Madison’s immigrant community built St. Michael’s, Indiana’s second Catholic Church, between 1836 and 1839. Irish railroad workers utilized stones cut from the incline to construct the church.

Life was not easy for Catholics in Madison’s early years. Most lived on the far reaches of town. In the 1850s, nativist mobs raided the homes of Catholic citizens and threatened to burn St. Michael’s.

EASY MODERATE DIFFICULT / HEAVY TRAFFIC GRAVEL

Madison’s idyllic riverfront is a far cry from the scene of the city’s industrial hub. In place of the paved walkway and open parks, imagine a busy landing crowded with riverboats and barges. Trains ran along Vaughn Drive servicing factories and slaughterhouses teeming with livestock. Raucous saloons and hotels entertained river men and factory workers well into the night. As industry declined in the twentieth century, the mills and factories were steadily abandoned. In 1937, the largest flood in Madison’s history destroyed what remained of the old riverfront.

Biking Through History Downtown Madison is a beautifully preserved American river town. Founded in 1811, the city grew from a modest outpost to quickly become the largest city in Indiana. Heavy traffic on the Ohio River and the arrival of railroads spurred Madison’s expansion. Many notable figures in Indiana’s history, such as James Lanier and Judge Jeremiah Sullivan called this city home. By the twentieth century Madison’s prosperity was fading. As a result, Madison maintained its historic character of humble homes, grand mansions, factories, and commercial buildings mingled together. The historic district exhibits grand examples of early American architecture, including the Federal, Greek Revival, and Italianate styles.

Jefferson County offers some of the most scenic cycling routes in Indiana. Rides range from open farmland to rolling hills and deep valleys. Throughout the countryside quaint villages and forgotten scenes reflect the county’s rich history. Downtown Madison is one of Indiana’s historic treasures. Cycling is the perfect way to explore the 133-block historic district. Historic homes, museums, parks, and a lively Main Street provide any number of destinations.

This bicycle tour through Madison explores the fringes of the historic district, the neighborhoods of working-class immigrants, and the history of the riverfront. Madison is easy to navigate and cyclists should also explore the many sights in the center of town. A Walking Tour of Historic Madison Indiana is an excellent companion to this tour.

Madison Visitor’s Center

BIKE ROUTE DIFFICULTY

Old Riverfront

St. Michael’s Catholic Church

The Hanover ride begins at Hanover College,exploring the history of the college and the village of Hanover.

The route continues at an easy to moderate pace through level farmland with wide-open views of the surrounding countryside.

The Lancaster to Deputy route is a moderately challenging ride through rolling hills and forests along the Big Creek.

Riders should imagine country life during the nineteenth century while passing historic villages, churches, and schoolhouses.

This massive mill is the most striking remnant of the second wave of Madison’s industrial era.

As the industrial revolution swept the country, a new and larger scale of industry emerged. Built in 1884, the mill was the largest and most modern factory in town, complete with 300 looms, electric lights, and a sprinkler system. Hundreds of workers, many of Irish and German descent, produced muslin, tobacco canvasses, and twine into the 1930s.

Information on events, recreation, dining, and shopping in Madison. 601 W. First Street Madison, Indiana 47250 812-265-2956 | Toll Free 800-559-2956 www.visitmadison.org

Madison Area Bicycle Club This local cycling club hosts weekly rides.

Their website features additional bike routes. www.madisonbicycleclub.org

Fizz’z Bike Shop Bicycle rentals and service in Madison.

311 West St. 812-273-3499

IN MADISON AND

JEFFERSON COUNTY

INDIANA

Beyond the hills that surround downtown Madison smaller communities grew up throughout Jefferson County. Many of these towns survive today, while others have nearly disappeared. The rides through the county follow scenic country lanes where adventurers can discover the hidden signs of Jefferson County’s history.