Category: Historic Towns

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Remarkable Marietta

  This week in Dusty Tires on the Road we continue our drive on video south on State Route 60 from McConnelsville to Marietta, passing through the small communities of Beverly and Lowell along the way.

  kdrenten

  September 25, 2025

  Historic Towns, Museums, Ohio Byways, ohio history

  #mariettaohio, #ohiohistory, ohio history

• The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 3

  Tritt went across Jacksontown’s Main Street, the National Road, to a clapboard building that resembled a large shack that might soon tumble down. The only thing that identified it as a restaurant was a hand-written sign in a dirty window that read “EAT.” He sat down at a rough-sawn table.

  kdrenten

  September 24, 2025

  Fiction, Historic Towns, ohio history

  #nationalroad, #ohiohistory

• Explore the oldest houses in Columbus and Ohio

  A modest house in Franklinton is reputed to be the oldest house in the city of Columbus. Located at 570 W. Broad Street (U.S. 40) at Gift Street, the Federal style house was reportedly built in 1807 by Joseph Oberdier.

  kdrenten

  September 23, 2025

  Historic Towns, Museums, ohio history

  #columbusohio, #franklintonohio, #nationalroad, #ohio, ohio history

• Dusty Tires on the Road: The Mighty Muskingum

  This episode of Dusty Tires on the Road features State Route 60, which follows the Muskingum River. This video follows at the route from just south of Zanesville to McConnelsville.

  kdrenten

  September 18, 2025

  Historic Towns, Natural Areas, Ohio Byways, ohio history

  #morgancountyohio, #muskingumriver, #ohiohistory

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Adamsville and Amish

  Adamsville is one of those small Ohio villages that’s easy to overlook at first glance. A handful of miles east of Zanesville in Muskingum County, Adamsville has a population of about 140 to be generous. It has zero traffic lights and one gas station. It’s located just 16 miles north from I-70 on SR 93.

  kdrenten

  September 11, 2025

  Grocery stores and markets, Hardware stores, Historic Towns

  #adamsvilleohio, #amish, #muskingumcounty, #ohioamish, #ohiohistory

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Going West, part 2

  I continued traveling west on the National Road/U.S. 40 for the last in this series of Dusty Tires on the Road videos, visiting downtown Springfield and traveling west all the way to the Indiana border.

  kdrenten

  September 4, 2025

  Historic Taverns, Historic Towns, Ohio Byways

  #nationalroad, #ohiohistory, #springfieldohio, #us40, ohio history

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Surprising Columbus

  Columbus is a city that will surprise you, even from a brief view along US 40 from east to west.

  kdrenten

  August 21, 2025

  Historic Towns, Ohio Byways

  #40motel, #columbusohio, #nationalroad, #ohio, #ohiohistory, #us40

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Search for the Blaine Hill Bridge

  For this story, I was determined to find and take a photo of the National Road’s Blaine Hill S-Bridge and Viaduct, once and for all.

  kdrenten

  August 7, 2025

  Bridges, Historic Towns, Ohio Byways, ohio history

  #blainehill, #nationalroad, #ohio, #ohiohistory, #stclairsville, #us40

• Dusty Tires on the Road: Somewhere in Guernsey County

  The second installment in the series of Dusty Tires on the Road that features the National Road did not come easily.

  kdrenten

  July 25, 2025

  Historic Towns, Ohio Byways

  #guernseycounty, #nationalroad, #oldwashington, #us40

• Mohican Country offers more than canoeing

  The area of Ohio known as Mohican Country has been popular since the 1960s as the place to go in the state for canoeing and camping.

  kdrenten

  June 10, 2025

  Historic Towns, Natural Areas, Recreational activities