METAMORA — A path chopped through the woods by men and dug by horse-drawn machines once connected the manufacturing and farming interests of the northern Whitewater River to an Ohio River port at Lawrenceburg.
Now, 185 years later, it is getting renewed use as a hiking trail. Saturday, people from several places in Indiana came to walk part of it.
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