I had come this way in order to see the spot up ahead where the grain bins can be seen above the corn. That is also the spot where 3360 East Street becomes County Road 3320E (according to Google Maps). And at one time it was a boundary of sorts between "Indian country" and land available for settlement.
The utility poles follow a Indian treaty line that was established in the aftermath of the War of 1812.
The elevators and grain bins here look like they are arranged for a railroad siding. Whether or not that's why they were originally built that way, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad did in fact coincide with the old Indian boundary for about six miles from here to the west. The gravel road doesn't go on for six miles, though. It's a public road but serves as a farm lane that ends at the farmstead on the horizon.
