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    1. The Bullskin Road (2)
    2. Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman
    3. The Road went north through Felicity and Bethel, now OH 133, and crossed the East Fork of the Little Miami at Williamsburg. It crossed Stonelick Creek at Edenton (just 2 miles from the Stonelick Church). A stone marker at the east edge of Edenton is on the old Road as it goes cross-country to Clarksburg. A line of old trees shows part of the route. From Clarksburg it followed old OH 380 to Xenia, going through New Burlington, now submerged below the lake at Caesar's Creek State Park. It was called the Bullskin Road. From Xenia north to Detroit, it is US 68, the Detroit Road. It goes to Yellow Spring, where it leaves the Little Miami. Then to Springfield, where it follows the Mad River of the Great Miami to Urbana. Other cities on the Road are Bellefontaine, Kenton, Findlay, Bowling Green, Toledo. From Cygnet, north of Findlay, it becomes OH 25 and from Toledo to Detroit it is US 24. Earliest records show another old Indian path, that connected to the Bullskin Road (OH133), just north of Williamsburg (on OH276) Just before Owensville it turned north through Goshen and Lebanon to the Ford on the Great Miami River, Franklin OH, then headed north along the Great Miami and Stillwater rivers, where many of the early Brethren settled on the west side of Dayton. The earliest Brethren settlement in Ohio was in Clermont County, the Obannon Church, near Goshen (1795). The Olive Branch Church near Bullskin Landing soon followed (1800). But this was heavy clay soil, and many decided to move north to the good farmland on the Great Miami River. Frederick Weaver (in whose home the Obannon Church first met), Gabriel Kerns, and David and Daniel Miller lived in the western part of the Obannon Church area, near Manila Road, which goes south -east from Goshen. Just above Gabriel Kerns farm is Linton Road, which was the OLD route before Manila road was built, going through Goshen past the Cemetery, meeting the Murdoch/Lebanon Road above town. It now stops at the Cemetery. Continued in Next Message !^NavFont02F067F0008NM6AHM806504

    12/18/1998 11:05:16