{"id":32394,"date":"2025-08-25T17:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=32394"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:26:54","slug":"columbus-arc-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/columbus-arc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Arc of Columbus, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The quest to add new Ohio spots to my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/travel\/counties\/united-states-county-map.html\">county counting list<\/a> continued, padding my efforts from <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=32380\">earlier in the day<\/a>. The wide arc I took around the perimeter of Columbus swung from north, clockwise, now approaching due-east.  The route now led into Licking County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Getting Licked<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Licking wasn&#8217;t completely unfamiliar because I&#8217;d been there before. However, I&#8217;ve never actually stopped within its borders. That&#8217;s because Licking is an &#8220;<a href=\"\/blog\/?p=16597\">interstate county<\/a>&#8220;, and by definition easily accessible and navigated. Anyone driving on Interstate 70 can slice through the bottom of Licking from side-to-side (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/pgiqjGJp9oFNP36Z7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). I&#8217;ve probably spent a half-hour in Licking County on several occasions but only on the highway. This time would be different. I cut through the northeast corner and stopped multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name seemed unusual, and I wondered if matched a familiar Appalachian \/ Midwestern pattern. Numerous place names throughout the wider area <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=17495\">reference salt licks<\/a>. Bison once congregated at the licks until people of European descent decimated them. My search found that the county name may indeed <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Licking_County,_Ohio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reference a salt lick<\/a>, derived from the Licking River. So I&#8217;ll call that a win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shoults Bridge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54730112539\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54730112539_0a81af3bb2_b.jpg\" alt=\"Shoults Bridge; Fallsburg, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eventually nearly every one of my county counting adventures leaves a paved roadway and winds up on a gravel path. Often the story involves the hunt for a remote covered bridge. Case in point, I couldn&#8217;t see Shoults Covered Bridge (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/rK6ohxgpbYvHLB2eA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) without driving on gravel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also called the Girl Scout Camp Covered Bridge because it takes Girl Scout Camp Road across Wakatomika Creek. There may or may not be an actual Girl Scout camp nearby; I didn&#8217;t see one. To add to the confusion, the nearest settlement is Fallsburg and it falls within Fallsbury Township, and it&#8217;s postal address is Frazeysburg, which is actually in Muskingum County. Anyway, the bridge dates to 1879 and it&#8217;s pretty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Gregg Mill Bridge<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54729885506\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54729885506_6b2cdcac06_b.jpg\" alt=\"Gregg Mill Bridge; Fallsburg, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I could have backtracked to the welcoming pavement of Route 586 (Pleasant Valley Road), gone south a couple of miles, and then cut over to the Gregg Mill Bridge (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/44cjRSrLidzc9kPTA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). That probably made sense. But I was committed to the gravel path and it took about the same time. In return, I followed the rim of a deep hollow through dense forest. Sometimes I passed a driveway or a mailbox but otherwise it felt like a lost world. I wondered if this is what <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=32380\">Hull had to clear<\/a> on his march to Detroit in 1812.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gregg Mill Bridge also crossed Wakatomika Creek, pretty close to Shoults Bridge as the crow flies. However there&#8217;s no direct path between the two unless someone wants to float down the creek. It&#8217;s also a slightly newer bridge, dating to 1881, and reconstructed in 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Fool Brewery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54730236895\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54730236895_7d70649cab_b.jpg\" alt=\"Old Fool Brewery; Perryton, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;d driven about five hours already, done a ton of exploring, and still had about an hour to go. It felt like time for a little break. So we stopped at Old Fool Brewery (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/5PyVXL1N8gyMdeX56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>) which somehow emerged along our obscure route through Licking County. The mailing address is Newark, Ohio, but it&#8217;s not really there. Newark is like a half-hour away. Actually the brewery isn&#8217;t near anything. I don&#8217;t even know how it can exist but I was happy to <a href=\"\/blog\/brewery-map\/\">add it to my list<\/a>. The gravel driveway led up a steep slope that didn&#8217;t offer a lot of confidence but it terminated at a surprisingly nice place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was doing good business to, with a bunch of regulars who obviously enjoyed hanging out there. It was a nice crowd for a Sunday afternoon. I guess the location made more sense than I thought. Unfortunately we couldn&#8217;t stay long so we split a flight of small pours, went on our way, and left Licking County behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">McConnelsville<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We made overnight reservations in McConnelsville, Ohio. My criteria were pretty simple: McConnelsville was about halfway home and it looked cute. Later I found out that Ohio Magazine honored McConnelsville as one of its five <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiomagazine.com\/travel\/article\/best-hometowns-2024-mcconnelsville\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Best Hometowns<\/a> for 2024. By sheer coincidence it also honored <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohiomagazine.com\/travel\/article\/best-hometowns-2024-millersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Millersburg<\/a>, my overnight stop <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=32197\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">during the earlier drive<\/a> in May. Maybe I just have an affinity for stumbling upon quaint rural towns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morgan County Dungeon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54729054307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54729054307_3926f69b0e_b.jpg\" alt=\"Morgan County Dungeon; McConnelsville, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>McConnelsville is the seat of local government for Morgan County, and anchors its population along with Malta, a sister town directly across the Muskingum River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We stopped briefly in Malta to see the Morgan County Dungeon (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/yv9kxqpu5hDNjMSU6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). It&#8217;s not much but it&#8217;s worth a thirty second photo shoot in an area with few competing attractions. I didn&#8217;t even stop long enough to turn off the car. I wouldn&#8217;t change plans to see the dungeon but it was here and I didn&#8217;t have anything better to do. So why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling lazy so I&#8217;ll borrow directly from the nearby historical marker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;Prisoners convicted of rioting, larceny and adultery in Morgan County between 1833 and 1839 were confined in a dungeon near the Court House in McConnelsville. This stone vault, 11 feet high, 5 feet wide and 12 feet long, was discovered in 1964 and is believed to have been used as the county dungeon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And from there we drove across the river and entered McConnelsville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Walking in Town<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54730096598\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54730096598_f213e9d039_b.jpg\" alt=\"McConnelsville, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We stayed at an Airbnb property above a store near the center of town, on Main Street. McConnelsville isn&#8217;t large although it has a nice, walkable historic district with a variety of shops and restaurants. Some of the buildings date to the early days of Ohio, as far back as the 1830&#8217;s. I&#8217;ll bet McConnelsville is one of those romantic weekend getaway destinations for people living in Columbus, or maybe even Dayton or Pittsburgh. They&#8217;re not that far away and the town sort-of had that vibe. Even so, it was quiet on a Sunday evening; the sidewalks rolled up pretty early.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Old Bridge Brewing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54729885161\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54729885161_9b67321cdc_b.jpg\" alt=\"Old Bridge Brewing; McConnelsville, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A lot of the places were closed by the time we arrived but the brewery was open! Who am I kidding? I already knew that McConnelsville had a brewery and I&#8217;d already checked the hours. We would probably eat here even if nothing was closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we walked a couple of blocks down to Old Bridge Brewing, which was indeed set by an old bridge (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54730236650\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">photo<\/a>), the same one we crossed after seeing the dungeon. The brewery had a surprisingly nice Italian menu in addition to its beers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Big Muskie<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54730112109\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54730112109_8a3274600a_b.jpg\" alt=\"Big Muskie; McConnelsville, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, stuffed with pasta, we slept soundly in our perch above Main Street, and woke up for the final push home. I had two more quick stops planned before the interstate. The first one brought us to Miners Memorial Park a few miles east of McConnelsville, the home of Big Muskie (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/bCtPBojKrh5bzk2N6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). I didn&#8217;t realize Ohio had a coal industry but apparently it&#8217;s a thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Big Muskie isn&#8217;t a fish, although typically Muskie is a nickname for Muskellunge, a freshwater pike native to the area. Rather it was a massive dragline excavator twenty-two stories tall used for open pit mining. Most of the rig sold for scrap in the 1990&#8217;s but the bucket remains. Notice the stairs leading into the bucket for a sense of its enormous scale, and imagine the crane that swung it. I don&#8217;t think they have to worry about anyone trying to steal it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a sucker for these oddball attractions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">U.S.S. Shenandoah<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/96225726@N08\/54729054022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54729054022_9322398989_b.jpg\" alt=\"Shenandoah Airship Disaster; Caldwell, Ohio. Photo by howderfamily.com; (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hindenburg takes the prize for aviation disasters involving lighter-than-air vessels. However, the United States had an earlier catastrophe in 1925 with the destruction of the U.S. Navy airship Shenandoah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Shenandoah was on a nationwide promotional tour when a line of thunderstorms ripped it into three large chunks outside of Caldwell, Ohio. It was filled with helium rather than hydrogen so at least it didn&#8217;t go down in flames. Nonetheless, fourteen members of the crew died. A small memorial marks Wreckage site 3 &#8212; the Ernest Nichols Farm &#8212; along the roadside on our path (<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/1ZsgGYuecJAWDsir8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We finally reached Interstate 77 a few minutes later and continued onward towards home. We&#8217;d crammed quite a bit of sightseeing into the <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=32380\">first part<\/a> of our trip, and this one too. Now I have only six Ohio counties remaining, all clustered tightly together near the northwest corner of the state. I should be able to knock them out in a single swipe and finish the state on my next trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quest to add new Ohio spots to my county counting list continued, padding my efforts from earlier in the day. The wide arc I took around the perimeter of Columbus swung from north, clockwise, now approaching due-east. The route now led into Licking County. 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