Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Dead Man's Curve

"The curve west of Ainsworth on the Lincoln highway" — there is only one.



It may be haunted by a Fort Wayne "booze runner" who met his untimely end there sometime in 1923.

2026-03-10. 1924-01-24 News, Booze Runner Gets Six Months
Hobart News, 24 Jan. 1924.

$200 in 1924 would be nearly $4,000 today.

That spot is also known by the locals, so I am told, as Whiskey Corner (because people who drank and drove tended to smash up there).

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