Stem on the Loveland Section

The stem on the Loveland Section and the Southern Terminus are remnants of a time when the Buckeye Trail wasn't a circle.  The trail was originally routed from the Headlands Beach State Park on Lake Erie to Eden Park in Cincinnati and by way of Southeast Ohio.  But I wonder how the BT maps in the 1960's routed it because the Williamsburg Section is generally 55 miles or so today.  My guess is that there wasn't a Loveland Section and that Williamsburg was extended to Eden Park?