Author: kdrenten
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Mohican Country, Part 2
Camping next to the Clear Fork of the Mohican River is one way to enjoy Mohican State Park. (Credit: Ken Drenten) By Ken Drenten We’re returning to Mohican Country for the second part of exploring this area. This time the focus is on Mohican State Park and Malabar Farm State Park. Both state parks have…
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The Jacktown Trail: Epilogue
Tritt and his friends helped the Shawnee band over the next few days as the dead were buried and the band made preparations for their trip west. Tritt gave them some of their supplies, and they divided up the robbers’ horses and gear.
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Central Ohio has a bit of Mother Road flavor on U.S. 40
You might know about the famed Route 66 with its weathered old motels and neon signs that bring about a sense of nostalgia for a long-lost age.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Mohican Country, Part 1
This week I traveled to a place that takes me “way back” — Mohican Country. It’s an area of Ohio just east of Amish Country in Ashland, Richland and Knox counties, and its’ unofficial capital is the village of Loudonville.
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The Jacktown Trail – Chapter 9
“Up ahead is a settlement of Christianized Shawnees,” Black said to the others. “Proudy Bill is the son of a Shawnee chief, but he’s way past his prime now. When we go into that village, we need to show ‘em who’s in charge. If they so much as lift a finger to us, shoot to…
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Invent some fun at Milan’s birthplace of Thomas Edison
Milan, Ohio, is justifiably proud of its place in history as the birthplace of Thomas A. Edison and has carefully restored and preserved the home in which he was born as the Thomas Edison Birthplace Museum.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Coshocton & Canals
This week we’re traveling in Ohio to northern Muskingum County and neighboring Coshocton County — to Dresden, Coshocton, Roscoe Village and West Lafayette, plus other sights to see. The ultimate goal of this trip is to find the oldest structure in Ohio, the Old Stone Fort, near West Lafayette.
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The Jacktown Trail – Chapter 8
They were led into a lantern-lit cabin that smelled of woodsmoke, old leather and grease. A dark-haired woman dressed in a linsey-woolsey frock set cups of hot chicory coffee before them and served them thick cornmeal cakes fried in bacon grease, along with slabs of crisp wild boar bacon.
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Golden Lamb inn is Ohio’s oldest – and spookiest?
The Golden Lamb has been a gathering place for travelers and community members in Lebanon since 1803. It can rightfully claim the title as Ohio’s oldest continually operating business.
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Dusty Tires in Ohio: Historic Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon is one of those places that forces you to take notice of it. Motorists and truckers know it well as a town that has no access to the interstate freeway system, and no bypass to get around it.
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