Lincoln Highway Road Trip, end of day 6.
A trifecta today: woke up in Pennsylvania, drove (very briefly) through a corner of West Virginia and spent the balance of the day in Ohio where I find myself now. Despite the occasional rain (and thunderstorm) it was a splendid drive.
The Lincoln Highway in Ohio is well marked and goes through some attractive countryside. I am ending the day in Canton. The city itself – meh. A midwestern Fresno. The NFL Hall of Fame – great stuff. A big highlight today was East Liverpool, OH: extraordinary. It was the called the “Pottery Capital of the World” due to all of the potteries there. Most have closed along with the mills. Population drop from 50,000 to around 10,000 but it is not in any way ravaged or blighted – just quiet…real quiet. Beautiful turn of the century architecture but most of the old downtown is closed for good, it seems. Almost devoid of commerce. It’s like someone turned the lights off. There is even a closed synagogue. I need to work my way through all of the pictures I took there – I will try to get a few posted in the morning.
The bridge in the pictures is where I crossed from West Virginia to Ohio over the Ohio River. It said .75 on the sign but it has been raised to $1. Otherwise, I did a stop in Lisbon for lunch in a classic diner (and drove through Paris shortly thereafter), and also stopped off in a place called Hanoverton which had about as nice an ensemble of intact 19th century buildings (in a seemingly untouched setting) as I have seen outside of New England with one difference: utterly devoid of tourists (well, except for this road tripper). Pictured is the little country church.
Lots of barns with ads on them. There was even a stretch of the original road branching off from the present Lincoln Highway route with about two miles the red brick surface still intact.
A grand Sunday drive through the Heartland of America.
Go Warriors!
