Leaving Lyons I continued to follow Ogden which is also Hwy 34, but before Downers Grove took Maple which later becomes the Chicago Road. The road has been flat since Chicago, former prairie, until Downers Grove where the landscape becomes gently rolling hills. I tried to visualize how difficult it must have been moving wagons. Alonzo wrote, "Turned over our wagon. Two lead horses got loose and down in the marshes – day of trials.” Chicago Road continues through Naperville where a detour prevented me from taking my planned route to the Aurora Rd. but I found it eventually He describes the road into Aurora as, “. . . rough road but some nice rolling prairie, good country, slept in the rain.”
The Aurora Rd. leads into downtown Aurora (surprise!) on the east bank of the Fox River. “A nice village with good water power,” he writes.
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