When world class unicyclist, Eddie Moffatt, hopefully, a documentary videographer, a select few others and I, bike from Indianapolis to Columbus next Spring (tent – May 20-24), on US 40, we will stay in Springfield, a little under 50 miles from the end of our ride. Since we will be riding on what we can find of the old. National Road, there will be historical treats like this along the way
Please do take the time to read this placard about the 1839 built lodging purveyor below. It gives you an idea about how much power this road, that came through Indianapolis, all the way back in the early 19 century, had in forming America.
It is this that absolutely, at the very least, needs to be in place where our National Road Wood Covered Bridge crossed the White River until it was dismantled in 1902. Toward that end, our send off with hopefully Mayor Joe Hogsett and select members of the local nonprofit community, will leave from where this bridge once connected the East with the unknown of the frontier…
National Road Bridge of 1834
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