Rendering of Hike from the Mouth of Vastine Run to the Central Incline and Cistern, Shawnee Wilderness Area, Adams County, Ohio, as viewed in Google Earth (9 May 2013).
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Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.
This image was generated using the Trails app and Google Earth. There is no marked trail, but access to this section of the Wilderness Area is found on Lower Twin Creek, where the road crosses Vastine Run. The access point is labeled in this image as "Vastine Quarry and Cisterns." Once one is in the hollow it is easy to find and use the old Tram Road as your "unmarked" trail to the Central Incline and Cistern.
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Vastine Hollow Freestone Quarries
During the second-half of the nineteenth century, Vastine and other hollows of Lower Twin Creek were the center of a major stone quarry industry. Here workers for various firms, including John…