Tag: #us40

• 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.

  kdrenten

  November 11, 2025

  Ohio Byways, Signs

  #columbusohio, #nationalroad, #neonsigns, #ohio, #us40

• The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 2

  The stagecoach slowly rolled into Jacksontown, causing a quite a crowd to gather as it did so, what with four dead bodies plain to see. The sheriff came over right away and nodded as he was told the details. He sent a deputy with several townsmen off on horseback to find the bandit who had…

  kdrenten

  September 17, 2025

  Fiction, ohio history

  #jacksontownohio, #nationalroad, #ohiohistory, #us40

• The Jacktown Trail, Chapter 1

  The man on horseback had heard two shots and spied a dust cloud just past a hill to the east. It sparked his memory that he had heard the westbound stage was late getting to Jacksontown, or Jacktown, the town he had just left just 15 minutes ago.

  kdrenten

  September 10, 2025

  Fiction, ohio history

  #jacksontownohio, #nationalroad, #ohio, #ohiohistory, #us40

• 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: Going West, part 1

  I drove through the towns of West Jefferson, Summerford, Lafayette, South Vienna and into the sizeable city of Springfield for this week’s video.

  kdrenten

  August 28, 2025

  Historic Taverns, Ohio Byways, ohio history

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

• 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: The Heart of It All

  If there is one section of the National Road and U.S. 40 that I have known well, it’s the part that drives straight into east Columbus and its suburbs, where I grew up and went to school.

  kdrenten

  August 14, 2025

  Ohio Byways, ohio history, Videos

  #bexleyohio, #columbusohio, #motelsigns, #nationalroad, #ohio, #ohiohistory, #reynoldsburgohio, #us40, #whitehallohio

• 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: National Road memories

  This is the third of the new series of YouTube videos, “Dusty Tires on the Road.” The first two took us east from Zanesville to Cambridge and Guernsey County on U.S. 40 and the National Road.

  kdrenten

  July 31, 2025

  Ohio Byways, Videos

  #nationalroad, #ohiohistory, #us40, #zanesville

• 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