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A Guide to Ohio's Indian Mounds

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:46:18 GMT

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Ohio has more than 70 Indian mounds, burial sites of the Adena and Hopewell tribes--the "mound builders"--who inhabited central and southern Ohio from roughly 3000 BC until the 16th century.

Many of these sites are open to the public, including the dramatic and fascinating Serpent Mound. Some even have museums and visitors centers accompanying them. Visiting Ohio's Indian mounds makes an interesting and educational weekend sidetrip from Cleveland.

The serpent mound is the most dramatic of the Ohio Indian Mounds. It is also the largest effigy earthwork in the world. Located in Adams County in Southern Ohio near the Ohio River, the 1370-foot long site is shaped like a curved snake with its mouth open and an egg at its mouth. The site, believed to be built by the Adena people, was discovered by Chillicothe surveyors, Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis in 1846.

Today, the site is administered by the Ohio Historical Society and includes a museum about the Adena people.

Tags: preservation, prehistory, burial mounds

Twinsburg City Council Fights to Preservation Historic Farm

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:48:35 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.cleveland.com

TWINSBURG -- For decades, every kid in town toured the Corbett Farm.

It was the last working dairy farm in Summit County, 82 acres sandwiched between center-hall colonials and a CVS on Darrow Road (Ohio 91). Its owners welcomed field trips and families to pet animals, take hayrides and pick pumpkins.

Now that a Beachwood developer owns the land, the city is fighting to preserve the farm buildings and the memories that accompany them.

Last month, the Twinsburg City Council voted against MSRK LLC's application to demolish the 1826 farmhouse and 1911 barn.

MSRK plans to build houses on the land, though the City Council already has denied the company's request to allow more than the 1.2 houses per acre permitted by current zoning.

So MSRK (the initials of the company owners) is suing over that issue, with a trial scheduled for June.

No one has the money to move them, said Audrey Kancler, president of the Twinsburg Historical Society.

Tags: preservation, design review ordinances, twinsburg

Downtown Delaware Celebrates, Rewards Successful Efforts

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:03:10 GMT

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Main Street Delaware presents Downtown Revitalization and Community Awards

The number of winners extends well beyond those who were honored February 12 at Main Street Delaware’s seventh Downtown Revitalization and Community Awards celebration.

“Everyone who lives, works, or shops in Delaware benefits from efforts to improve the city’s historic downtown,” says Donna Meyer, president of Main Street Delaware.

The awards ceremony, held at The Strand Theatre, honored the following businesses and individuals for their efforts to revitalize the downtown while preserving and enhancing its rich history:

Main Street Delaware also honored and thanked the following community supporters and volunteers for their efforts to improve the downtown:

Tags: revitalization, downtown, delaware

Dayton Arcade to be Sold at Foreclosure Auction

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 04:15:31 GMT

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Historic Arcade can be yours for a mere $615,106

The county's tax lien foreclosure auction is scheduled at 10 a.m. March 12.

DAYTON — Efforts to save the historic downtown Arcade continue even as plans move forward to put it up for bid March 12 in a Montgomery County sheriff's tax lien foreclosure sale.

Ten properties will be included in the sale. The Arcade carries the highest property tax debt.

Phyllis Hewitt, a tax lien program manager for Montgomery County, said the minimum bid on the five-building complex is $615,106, which covers back taxes, interest and attorney's fees. The price would go up in $100 increments should buyers get into a bidding contest.

"Typically, there has not been a lot of bidding on these tax lien foreclosures," Hewitt said.

The sale begins at 10 a.m. at the Montgomery County Administration Building, 451 W. Third St.

"It's going to take one person on the line for 25,000 to 40,000 square feet to make it happen," he said.

Tags: preservation, arcades, ohio's most endangered, dayton

"Home in the Heights" Rehab Project

Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:58:24 GMT

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CLEVELAND HEIGHTS -- A gleam of silver tinsel still stapled to a basement beam haunts the empty house. Once, this tiny bit of glitter might have been part of shimmering streams of fuzzy foil hung for someone's birthday, anniversary or holiday celebration.

Its glow is nearly lost in the shadows as time freezes in the house's barren rooms that stand muffled in dusty stillness, bearing the scuffs and worn evidence that somebody once lived, laughed and loved here.

Now, the house has joined the ranks of thousands more, adrift on a sea of foreclosures.

But not for long, if the Cleveland Heights Home Repair Resource Center is successful with its first Home in the Heights rehabilitation project.

In coming months the center plans to renovate the 2,050-square-foot, four-bedroom house on Westover Drive, which has been vacant for more than a year.

This initial effort is a small dent in the inventory of roughly 1,000 vacant single-family homes in Cleveland Heights, most of them foreclosed houses.

Tags: preservation, rehabilitation, neighborhoods, cleveland heights

Runner Tackles Ohio Stretch of Lincoln Highway

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:51:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.delphosherald.com

There are certain milestone observances which deserve greater recognition than others.

A 200th anniversary comes only once.

Eric Ebinger is a 31-year-old runner from Collins (Huron County), just a few miles east of Norwalk

Abraham Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809. This year marks the 200th anniversary of his birth.

That’s where the two unite.

“I love presidents. Lincoln is my favorite,” he explained.

Looking for a way to mark this milestone, Ebinger eventually settled on the decision to run the historic Lincoln Highway through the state of Ohio.

“What better place to focus a birthday celebration of Lincoln than the engineering marvel which bears his name,” he continued. “This is an adventure worthy of honoring the nation’s greatest president. The run will test the mental, physical and emotional skill of any human being. I am very excited to get started.”

Tags: heritage tourism, historic roads, lincoln highway

Rural Cincinnati-Area Property Listed on National Register

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 06:16:46 GMT

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King mansion added to historic register

The King Mansion has been added to the National Register of Historic Places, a prestigious title awarded by the National Park Service and the United States Department of the Interior.

The house at 1720 East King Ave. and a nearby carriage house were built in 1885 in 19th century Italianate style for industrialist Ahimaaz King. He managed the King Powder Company and the Peters Cartridge Company.

At the time, life in Kings Mills and Deerfield Township revolved around these mills.

The award comes after months of planning by members of the Deerfield Township Community Development Department and Sullebarger Associates, a local historic preservation consultant firm.

The township is raising money to restore the building. The community is considering turning the mansion, into a museum and meeting place.

Tags: preservation, national register of historic places, cincinnati

Lincoln and the Ohio Statehouse

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:28:58 GMT

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Abraham Lincoln At The Statehouse

Ohio Statehouse Hosts Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln's First Statehouse Visit

Lincoln's Second Statehouse Visit

Lincoln's Third Statehouse Visit

Celebrating the Legacy of Abraham Lincoln at the Statehouse

Bicentennial of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln

From its earliest days, the sheer size and large population of the state have given Ohio great political influence. Because of the state's political stature, the Ohio Statehouse has been visited by a number of dignitaries, including Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was at the Statehouse three times, and those three occasions were very different, and public reaction was so different on each visit it was almost as if three separate people were the object of attention. In a way that is true, if one considers what Lincoln would accomplish between his first and last visitation, and how his reputation with the American people would change.

Tags: preservation, ohio statehouse, us presidential history

Student Temporarily Shuts Down Brown Hall Demolition

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:56:38 GMT

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Trouble at Brown Hall

An unidentified trespasser, likely a student, ran into Brown Hall Tuesday, causing deconstruction to temporarily halt. The scene caused a commotion, as dozens of students watched the interruption of Brown Hall's first day of deconstruction. Witnesses said a skinny young man with a backpack walked in and went upstairs, where he looked down from a window. After an employee of Facilities Operations and Development caught the trespasser, the man quickly left the scene.

Tags: preservation, demolition, ohio state university

Artifacts at Great Risk With Current Economic Slowdown

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:12:01 GMT

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Economy threatens work to preserve history

COLUMBUS - The Civil War flag that was brandished by the 42nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry is wrapped tightly around its pole. It's a delicate task to unfurl the nearly 150-year-old banner without it crumbling like a potato chip.

Yet the humidity-raising chamber used to loosen the material consists of a homemade aluminum frame covered with a plastic-like film. It was built with parts from Lowe's that cost less than $500. The work is being done in a warehouse and in a homemade chamber instead of with state-of-the-art equipment costing as much as $20,000.

With the recession tightening its grip, budgets being cut and donors drying up, preservationists are scaling back on restorations.

Money still is being given for conservation but not at the levels that are necessary, said Eryl Wentworth, executive director of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works.

Tags: preservation, artifacts, ohio historical society

Blog Takes Photo Journey on Land of Cross-Tipped Churches Historic Byway

Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:43:43 GMT

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The Eagle Scout Ceremony I attended was held in the church pictured above. This picture was taken in 2007 on one of my photo-walk-abouts.

The ceremony gave me a chance to get some pictures on the inside. I particularly liked this combination of the stained glass window of the lamb and the spiral staircase. I really like the way the curve of the banister flows with the medallion ring of the window.

The Holy Bible is featured above one of the main doors. Below are two of the tall arched windows of the sanctuary.

The main sanctuary had a large cross, but I found this small chapel off to the side with the sun shining in, to good to pass up.

Between the Eagle Court of Honor which I posted in my Think Focus Click blog and the pictures I got for this post, I'd say I had a rather good picture day.

Tags: preservation, heritage corridor, churches

Historic Opera House Hosts "An Evening with Legends"

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:09:34 GMT

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Lincoln & Stowe to grace opera house

Abraham Lincoln should feel right at home in the Pemberville Opera House.
At least, that is the Abraham Lincoln who along with Harriet Beecher Stowe will come to visit the opera house in the persons of actors Michael and Jacqueline Hurwitz.

The Columbus-area couple will present "An Evening with Legends" Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the opera house. Tickets are $10.

Michael Hurwitz is writer as well as a thespian. His latest book, "Backstage with Booth" is on Edmund Spangler, a stagehand who was working the night Lincoln was assassinated.

His current project is on historic opera houses in Ohio, including the Pemberville Opera House.
The Hurwitzes visited the opera house last year, and at that time Jacqueline Hurwitz commented that it would the right stage to bring Stowe and Lincoln to life. "It's a wonderful mixing of atmosphere and character," she said.

Tags: preservation, performances, theatres, pemberville

Chocolate Walk on First Friday in Historic Downtown Delaware

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:12:43 GMT

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“Above all, think chocolate.” Tasty advice from “kitchen expert” Betty Crocker, who most likely would lead the many strollers out and about in downtown Delaware, for February’s First Friday and first annual Chocolate Walk, from 5-9 p.m. on February 6.

Sponsored by Main Street Delaware, the evening festivities offer a great way to prepare for Valentine’s Day while socializing with friends and the more than 25 Delaware business owners who will participate in Chocolate Walk. As Stanya Doty, owner of Delaware’s “Simple Indulgences,”(31 North Sandusky Street) explains, each of these businesses will offer patrons chocolate items of all sizes and shapes.

“The fun part will be going around from store to store, collecting all of these chocolates,” she says. But there is more to life—and First Friday—than chocolate. As Doty describes, children also will collect decorative items at each locale, and then can craft their own Valentine’s Day cards.

Tags: revitalization, promotion, downtown, delaware

Historic Inns Included in Look at Valentine's Day Ideas

Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:32:46 GMT

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Looking for the perfect suite for your sweetheart?

Look no farther than Sagamore Hills and Painesville, Millersburg and Bucyrus.

Assuming snowed-under Cleveland couples needed a break from this long, hard winter, the Travel staff asked readers for their recommendations on close-to-home getaways perfect for rekindling the romance.

We received some passionate responses.

From intimate bed-and-breakfasts to full-scale resorts, there are plenty of places within a short drive that would be happy to turn up the heat for you and your honey this Valentine's Day and beyond.

Here are readers' romantic retreats, along with a few of our own.

Inn at Brandywine Falls

Shady Oaks Farm Bed and Breakfast

Inn at Honey Run

Gilead's on the Lake Bed & Breakfast

Spread Eagle Tavern

Quail Hollow Resort

HideAway Country Inn

White Inn

Harman's North Fork Cottages

Seneca Lake Cabins

Inn Walden

Hocking Hills

The Lodge at Geneva-on-the-Lake

Deer Creek

Tags: preservation, bed and breakfasts, statewide

Preservation, Yes - But Not Fast Enough!

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:54:53 GMT

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Clip Source: www.freetimes.com

Ever since her father put a paint brush in her hand when she was 5, Desiree Schmitt has fancied herself a handy kind of person. So six years ago, she plunked down $7,500 on the dilapidated but historic behemoth at 714 College Avenue. The equally worn house out back came with the package. Her plan: Put a lot of time and money into turning some North Tremont eyesores into a storefront home and a rental. She's still waiting for the payoff.

Copper thieves stripped the front house, she says, "and every tool I've ever owned was stolen and replaced twice. Every time I took a step forward, people would knock me three steps back."

Just last November - some $200,000 later - she finished the front house, complete with a charming little storefront doll shop and a high-ceilinged apartment for herself, surrounded by two smaller already-occupied rental units. She had planned to start on the back lot in the spring - a job estimated to cost another $100,000. But that's not soon enough for the city.

Tags: preservation, demolition, code enforcement, cleveland