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Wow! This is in Ohio???

excellent threads, especially now since summer has passed. i remember our teenaged trips to mohican for horseback riding & beer-fueled canoeing. ha.

 

from last of the mohicans:

 

Chingachgook: The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the Red Man of these wilderness forests in front of it until one day there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.

 

Hawkeye: That is my father's sadness talking.

 

Chingachgook: No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son and his woman and their children. And one day there will be no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come, work, struggle. Some will make their life. But once, we were here.

 

Beautiful! I knew there was some impressive topography in that part of the state, but I didn't expect anything that dramatic.

 

The last photo looks like remnants of a railroad bridge.

 

Do you know what kind of turtle that is? On the farm where I grew up, there's a stream through a wooded area where there used to be dozens of those. When I was 13-14 years old, I used to sit under a tree on the bank, across from a spot where they'd haul out to sun themselves. They're amazingly fast at getting back into the water, and at the slightest movement they'd all head into the water in a flash.

 

I learned to sit still as a rock, with my only visible movement an occasional blink. If I sat there long enough, eventually I'd see a pointed nose with a tiny knob on the end poke up here and there, and eventually they'd begin to cautiously crawl back out onto their sunning area.

 

One time we caught one away from the water, probably going someplace to lay eggs. We measured it, and the shell was just shy of two feet, end-to-end.

^^Yes sir. Not to far from Mansfield.

 

^Thanks, my friends and I would take trips out there too. It is so much fun hiking and tubing.

That's a mean looking turtle.

^Yea, I almost stepped on it cause I wasn't watching where I was walking. :)

Beautiful shots.

Ahh Nature.  Nice series!

Rob, there looks to be a line running east-southeast.

 

Follow the Clear Fork Mohican River to the Black Fork Mohican River. This road appears to be an old rail grade converted into a road.

 

More obvious here.

Sorry Rob, I missed your comment. I am not sure if that is remnants of a railroad bridge and I don't know what kind of turtle that is either, sorry.

Where you found those railroad boosters there was once not one but two tracks in that area.  Just 10 minutes south is the tiny village of Gann with about 200 current residents.  The community used to have near 4,000 residents until the terrible 1913 flood. 

 

Records indicate that over five rail lines ran thru the village on a daily basis.  If you walk around the community you can still find many sidewalks, house foundations and even in the hillsides there are multiple railroad tracks that have been abandoned.  The one you found is the former CLA Line which ran from Coshocton to Loudonville. 

 

Brinkhaven is a gem in the whole area in the fact that there are so many unknown artifacts that still exist.  I was exploring about 3 months ago and found the base of an old station that stood over 15 feet off the ground in the air.  It had a rail-track that ran next to it and serviced the cross track at the top of Cut Hill.

welcome Radiohio :wave:

Mohican is so fun!  Every summer, my parents would take my sister and I down there for canoeing.  Unfortunately, I haven't been there in about 5 years and miss it!  Thanks for the photos....brings back great memories!

Thanks for the map, seicer, and the historic info, radiohio - and welcome to the forums. It's amazing how much knowledge these boards have drawn together in the past few years.

thanks for the welcome!  I grew up during my high school years about 10 minutes from there, so i used to be a reasearh junkie about the area. 

 

Gann/Brinkhaven is so scenic and beautiful, its amazing how much of it still exists. 

 

If you ever get the chance, check out the Mowhawk Dam just north of Walhounding!  Thats a beauty.  We used to take picnic trips with the family and sit on the grated bridge overtop the river, it was so awesome!

These brought a huge smile to my face in the middle of this cold wintery day.  I love Mohican.  I go mushroom hunting there in the spring, picnic and canoe there in the summer and hike there in the fall whenever I can.

Nice pics Andrew, I missed these the first time around.

Mohican is truly one of Ohio's hidden gems.  Most people dont even know it exists!