Day 3 of our Middle Atlantic Backroad Discovery Route (MABDR).
Started in Milroy, PA and finished in Mt Holy Springs, PA.
Today we rode through Mennonite country and had lunch in Kountry Kitchen which was outstanding. Lunch portions were extremely generous and you could taste the good quality ingredients they used to prepare it.
The farmlands of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country are supposed to be among the most productive in the nation and it shows. Everywhere you look there is a farm house as the Mennonites have long preferred farming as a way of life. They feel their lifestyle and their families can best be maintained in a rural environment.
Today must have been washing day as we saw lots of full clotheslines.
Today our ride was mainly on forest roads and small asphalt roads. There was not a lot of wind and when it was dusty, the dust did not blow away so we had to keep some distance from each other.
One of the highlights of the ride was a visit to the Greenwood Furnace State Park and look at the iron furnaces, which went into blast on June 5, 1834.
“However, changing economics, newer and more efficient fuels and processes, and the shifting of industry to larger urban-centered complexes coupled with the depletion of local natural resources led to the closing of Greenwood Furnace in December of 1904. The village and the way of life it represented became a mere curiosity, a fading memory of a time when charcoal iron reigned supreme. Greenwood Furnace soon became a ghost town. The workers moved away as the village and furnace were torn down.”
Another highlight was a visit and a ride through the New Germantown Covered Bridge which is “a historic wooden covered bridge located at Jackson Township, near New Germantown in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is a 74-foot-long (23 m) King post bridge, constructed in 1891. It crosses Sherman Creek.”
Tonight we are staying in an Inn that is nearly 250 years old (since 1772) and decided to have dinner in the Inn’s restaurant and enjoyed the common balcony.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the day
Andy Jones view of Day 3
Randy Gilbert view of Day 3
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of Day 3
Started in Milroy, PA and finished in Mt Holy Springs, PA.
Today we rode through Mennonite country and had lunch in Kountry Kitchen which was outstanding. Lunch portions were extremely generous and you could taste the good quality ingredients they used to prepare it.
The farmlands of the Pennsylvania Dutch Country are supposed to be among the most productive in the nation and it shows. Everywhere you look there is a farm house as the Mennonites have long preferred farming as a way of life. They feel their lifestyle and their families can best be maintained in a rural environment.
Today must have been washing day as we saw lots of full clotheslines.
Today our ride was mainly on forest roads and small asphalt roads. There was not a lot of wind and when it was dusty, the dust did not blow away so we had to keep some distance from each other.
One of the highlights of the ride was a visit to the Greenwood Furnace State Park and look at the iron furnaces, which went into blast on June 5, 1834.
“However, changing economics, newer and more efficient fuels and processes, and the shifting of industry to larger urban-centered complexes coupled with the depletion of local natural resources led to the closing of Greenwood Furnace in December of 1904. The village and the way of life it represented became a mere curiosity, a fading memory of a time when charcoal iron reigned supreme. Greenwood Furnace soon became a ghost town. The workers moved away as the village and furnace were torn down.”
Another highlight was a visit and a ride through the New Germantown Covered Bridge which is “a historic wooden covered bridge located at Jackson Township, near New Germantown in Perry County, Pennsylvania. It is a 74-foot-long (23 m) King post bridge, constructed in 1891. It crosses Sherman Creek.”
Tonight we are staying in an Inn that is nearly 250 years old (since 1772) and decided to have dinner in the Inn’s restaurant and enjoyed the common balcony.
Make Life a Ride !
Facebook post with some photos of the day
Andy Jones view of Day 3
Randy Gilbert view of Day 3
Click HERE for all the photos and videos of Day 3
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