Rode
my 320 Trek Verve 3 Disk Lowstep today (fourth ride with my seating finally
adjusted near the correct height). I did about 15 miles today feeling quite decent with the longer ride - but did tire out a lot on the
(to me) steep Shawnah Hill quite near the end of my way home. That name Shawnah Hill seems to have disappeared from local usage as I have aged along with many of the names for other local hills in the area. I wasn't certain of the spelling in a recent Facebook posting so have referred to my copy of the 'History of Cecil County Maryland' by George Johnson (originally published in 1881). There on page 4 a continuation of a discussion of the various Indian tribes settled in the whole of Cecil County I found the following comment: "The Shawanese originally lived in the south, but being threatened with extermination by the surrounding tribes, left their original location, migrated northward, and appear to have been finally absorbed by the more powerful tribes near which they settled. Some of them stopped in Elk Neck, and for a long time after it was settled by the Europeans that part of it along the North East River was called 'Shawnah'. (and I am guessing that what is now known as Hances Point along the river was the Indian settlement area itself)
