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What with this Chief Leatherlips Monument that appears on Google when I search for places to see in Dublin, Ohio? The 12-foot high monument is a tribute to Chief Shateyaronyah (known by American frontiersmen as Chief Leatherlips), a leader of the Native American Wyandot tribe. According to history, Chief Leatherlips was…
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Located at the southwest portion of the Caesar’s Creek State Park in Waynesville, Ohio, the Pioneer Village is an open air museum with a collection of over 15 historical log cabins and houses that date back as afar as the 18th century. Each house and cabin has a historical story…
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I had been to other aviation museums and locations around southern Ohio — from Dayton’s National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Brothers National Museum, Wright Cycle Company, Wright Brothers Memorial, to Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, even attended the Vectren Dayton Air Show…
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Who doesn’t want a little oddity in the middle of a park? The Hollow Earth Theory Monument stands in the middle of the Symmes Park Playground in Hamilton, Ohio. Its history is interesting, to say the least. The monument is the gravesite of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, an 1812 war…
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The Hopeton Earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio was one of the grandest geometric earthworks the American Indians of the Hopewell culture built 2000 years ago. The complex includes a 20-acre circle (~1,050 feet diameter), a 20-acre square, at least two small circles and parallel walls (5 feet high, 2,400 feet long,…
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During the period between 200 B.C. and 500 A.D., the Native American Hopewell Culture flourished in the Southeastern region of Ohio, especially in the Ohio Valley, Scioto Valley, and Miami Valley. Among other Midwest States, Ohio may have been the epicenter of the Hopewell culture. Tribes that were part of…
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The George Rogers Clark Falls is situated inside the 250-acre George Rogers Clark Park in Springfield, Ohio. The waterfall is about 15 feet high. And from its foot where I stood, I estimate the crest to be 20 to 25 feet. I have read online that the waterfall is seasonal….
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There are a number of small waterfalls in western Ohio, but Ludlow Falls isn’t one of them. With a height of about 15 feet and a crest of 60 feet, Ludlow Waterfall differentiates itself from the likes of West Milton Cascades and Greenville Waterfall. Its location is also quite interesting…
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