Nomad Excursions into Northwestern Ohio

Ottawa Celebration Of Progress
175th Anniversary Mural in Ottawa, Ohio.

Today I had a state leadership meeting with the Christian Motorcyclists Association in Wapakoneta, Ohio at 11am. I decided to start the day bright and early and hit the road by 7am so I could launch on my excursion to locate several murals in some nearby small farm towns in north western Ohio. I left Newark and traveled through Columbus and headed northwest to my first stop in Bluffton followed by Pandora, Ottawa, and Columbus Grove, Ohio. I was able to locate all the murals I had found via research on the internet and catalogued my discoveries in a spreadsheet so that I would be able to locate and take pictures of the wonderful murals I had found in those respective cities.

By comparison, most of these towns were very small, but integral hubs to the farming communities nearby with several train track traversing across this area of Northwestern Ohio. All in all, this was a very productive ride enjoying a quiet sunny warm ride in my excursion to discover these treasures hidden in each community revealing some of the history and character(s) of the community.

In the coming weeks I will begin to share many of the pictures featuring the full sized murals and then broken down into smaller sections (panels) to see the wonderful attention to detail that is in these wonderful works of Americana.