Category: Historic Towns
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: What Happened Here?
Spring has arrived, and with it a new season of Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires trips around the state. Today, we’re exploring the Licking County communities of Alexandria, Johnstown and Hartford, plus a look at the Hartford Independent Fairgrounds and the enigmatic village of Lock.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: A Three-Buggy Day
Each year, my extended family and I go on an extended weekend getaway to a cabin, usually either in the Hocking Hills area or in the Mohican or Amish Country area. My mother started this years ago as a Christmas gift to the family.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Two mills remain in Muskingum County
At the height of the era of old country mills in Ohio, there were 18 such mills in Muskingum County. Now there are only two venerable mills that remain standing in the county, both along Jonathan Creek in Newton Township.
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace Part 2
This week we’re picking up where we left off on Zane’s Trace. We’ll drive from Lancaster to Chillicothe on US 22 and SR 159, in general following the trail of the historic Zane’s Trace.
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Here is the video — Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace, Part 1
Subscribers, here’s the video link that was omitted from the original blog post from earlier today. Apologies for the operator error in not attaching the link!
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Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires: Tracking Zane’s Trace Part 1
This week in Travel Ohio with Dusty Tires, I’m tracking the oldest road in Ohio, Zane’s Trace.
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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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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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