The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-10-10
Our Own Highland County.

It has been source of much pleasure
to the writer to trace at successive in.
tervals the various roads and streams
in our county, and to learn by personal
observation, something of its typography,
it's geological formations and its native
trees and plants. In riding over the
lonely roads (before the days Of free
turnpikes), he could not avoid noticing
the varied scenery and fantastic rock
formations in the south eastern portion
of the county. The striking evidences
on all sides Of the action of water on the
silurian strata, could not but strike the
dullest mind. Faces of men and animals,
castled rocks and battlements, and many
other things that seemed more like the
work of man than as the production of
the ages. and evolved from the labora.
tory of nature by slow processes. In
Volume Z of the Geology Of Ohio, there
is prefixed geological map of Ohio in
colors with each county. Most of our
county is in the upper silurian. The
western portion in the lower silurian.
All Of Paint township is in the upper
silurian. TIE cave region OF Paint town.
ship is in that series. Down in the
southeastern portion of our county,
Bakers Fork Of Brushcreek flows thro'
the lower silurian, or at least, the map
referred to shows it under that color.
It follows then that the wierd and gro.
tesque rocks which crop out along the
stream are in the oldest classified strata,
and differ from those at Rocky Fork
Caves. The low er silurian is divided into
Hudson River series, Utica ehales and
Trenton limestone. The rocks photo.
graphed by J. z. Foulk are, luost of them,
in the Hudson River series. Any one
who has travelled up the Hudson and
noticed the Palisades will at once see
that the Bakers Fork Palisades are cut
out of the same block. 1t is the upper
member of the lower silurian, and is
often confused with the Cincinnati
group. 1t abounds in fossils of lower
silurian time. There is, therefore, in
our own county, more marked differ.
ences than in any other portion of the
State, and Brushcreek township will lie
the chosen field for the geologist
and archaeologist, Is we'll as for the
lover OF mere scenic beauty.
Those who have not seen the photo.
graphs taken of section of this Yo.
semitic OF Ohio in Brushcreek township,
Highland county, now on exhibition at
the Town Hall Drug Store, should do 80.
Two miles up Bakers Fork of Brush
were photographed. There remains
about two miles farther down for the
camera to get in it's work. The scenic
portion of the stream will then be cover.
ed from The old site of the Gulliver mill
up to Robey's mill, from Robey's mill
up to Porter's mill, from Porter's up to
Reeds dam. Five turnpikes lead to
Sinking Spring. Get the last atlas of
Highland county, published in 1887, and
turn to the map contained therein, OF
Brushreek township, and study it. Don't
ask questions. Work out places like all
good generals) by maps. Every man
ought to know his own county, and
every rad in II, "a well az be knows
the streets of the village he lives in.
We know men who travel all over the
United States by aid of maps. They are
self reliant and do not depend upon
others in matters they may know per.
sonally. @.