I’ve got a great friend who challenged me to get in three hikes in one week. This hike at Sweetwater Creek State Park concludes the challenge and now she owes me dinner in Vancouver, Washington in August.
The building standing in ruins is the New Manchester Manufacturing Company (originally the Sweetwater Manufacturing Company) and the building was burned on July 9, 1864, by the order of Major Haviland Thompkins. The employees (traitors to the Union victors) were relocated and forced to sign an oath of allegiance to the U.S. and then allowed their freedom so long as they stayed north of the Ohio River. So the story goes.
The hope of the world is that wisdom can arrest conflict between brothers. I believe that war is the deadly harvest of arrogant and unreasoning minds.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower
