On the State Line Road, where the Union County survey shows the Indian Road, an old pair of foundation sites were remembered, again on an angle to the world, in back of the present barnlot. Just west of this, on the back of the Hartman farm, is an old crossing over Little Four Mile Creek, still used to get to the fields east of the creek. This was originally the Christian Witter Farm and the Witter cemetary is on the bank of the Four Mile. Mrs. Hartman is a Witter. The Indian Road continued north-west and crossed first the Nine Mile Road then IN 44 south and west of the corner. It continued more northward till it crossed Hannas Creek a little south of the Hanna's Creek Church. Then turned nearly due west across Union County. South-west of Clifton it angled northward to the Buffalo Ford. The road then seems to have angled north-west, to the old Universalist town of Philomet, and on toward Hagarstown, IN. Just north of the Nettle Creek Church at Hagerstown, is the old Stout Farm. In the early years of this century, Indians walked between the house and barn of that farm, on what they claimed was their old pathway. The scout-camp at Muncie, Ind. (old Muncytown) tells Indian lore about the old Indian Path to Richmond. The road actually passed south and west of Richmond. From Hagerstown, the Indian Road would have followed on or close to the Buck Creek Road, to Mt. Pleasant onto US 35, south of Muncie. This would account for the Dunker settlement along it called the Buck Creek Church. The winding and twisting of this old country road could be the original winding and twisting of the Indian path as it wove along the higher ground around the giant forest trees, swamps and steep gullys. The early migrants used an extension of this road from Muncie IN going northwest. One route went westward, to the Wildcat Creek which flowed into the Wabash River at Lafayette IN. Most of the Brethren settlers stopped along it, few going farther than Flora IN. The other went more northerly, through Kokomo and Peru IN. This triangle was a major settlement area in western Indiana during the early 1830s for the Four Mile families and their kin and neighbors in Preble and Montgomery Counties OH. ------------ Early settlers also used the Wayne Trace (General Anthony Wayne's army road) -north to Fort Wayne IN. Elder Jacob Miller (lived on the west side of the Great Miami River, at Dayton -c1806) would come visit his children on the Four Mile. This is still used -US 35 going STRAIT west from Dayton to Eaton OH, and OH122 continueing strait west to Boston IN -the trace wound southward to Connersville IN -trading post of the half-breed Delware/American -John Conner (family survived the massacre at Schoenbrunn Village) Merle C Rummel Church Historian