Alum Creek Ohio

November 28th. Very windy today leaving the truck stop. We are heading toward Delaware just north of Columbus and plan on checking in at Alum Creek State Park.

Here is a bit of history about Alum Creek Park. During the 50 years prior to the Civil War, the border State of Ohio offered many routes for the Underground Railroad by which slaves escaped to freedom. Over 40,000 slaves passed northward through Ohio along these paths. It is called The Sycamore Trail. The slaves' guideposts were often the ghostly white bark of this flood plain tree. Slaves waded in the waters of the creek attempting to elude the pursuing trackers.

Looking at the nature on our walk around the park
Ruth noticed a peculiar tree looking almost like a maple with little prickly things on its fruit, it is actually a tree called the MAPLE-BEECH tree.

Today the temperature was 21 degrees Celsius