Corporate Evolution of the Chillicothe Paper Mill in the Twenty-First Century
Twelve years after the centennial of the purchase of the Chillicothe mill by what became Dayton’s Mead Corporation, the facility bounced between paper companies and investment corporations for 13 years…until declared doomed in 2025. To understand the situation a little better, here is my summary compilation of that time period…mostly in quotes from Wikipedia.* Find my…
Church and Canal, Atoms and Veterans, Schmidt’s and Song
A Tour of the Pike Heritage Museum in their 40th Anniversary Celebration As I write in my article in the Scioto Post: At the last minute, I learned of the 40th anniversary celebration of the Pike Heritage Museum from an email by the Pike Chamber of Commerce. The museum was also hosting a Schmidt’s Sausage…
A Preview for Tonight: Last Year’s 2021 Chillicothe Christmas Church Tour
A Photo Essay of Last Year’s Holiday Religious Tour If you haven’t decided on tonight’s 2022 church tour, consider my snapshots from 2021…which I neglected to post until now. …Amen!
Haunting the Bainbridge Ghost Walk
When I saw it listed in the online calendar of the visitors bureau, I didn’t realize the Bainbridge Ghost Walk had been postponed a week because of weather – but that made it possible for me to attend last night, November 9th. Being a Bearcat (class of 1987) I’m happy to support the capital of…
Odd Occupants: Neighbors and Tenants of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Chillicothe – Early and Mid-20th Century
See part 1: “Odd Chillicotheans: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Chillicothe, 1874+” A spot search of my incomplete collection of Chillicothe city directories shows some of the occupants of the upper part of the Nipgen Block owned by the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) at the top of the stairs at 63…
Odd Chillicotheans: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Chillicothe, 1874+
The “Nipgen” Block The towering Victorian 3-1/2 story building at the northeast corner of Paint and Second streets is known as the Nipgen Block. Though named after the original occupant and owner of the corner part, pharmacist John Nipgen, the 1874 building was originally three separate properties that shared the same designer. The famous Madeira…
A Hoggard Memoriam…Again
An update to / clarifications of my June 23rd, 2021 Hoggard post on Facebook…upon further obsessive research, and untangling of Ancestry.com results! The “decorated graves of Ma and Pa Hoggard”…but only the first Ma, and only until about 1833. In Virginia, Temple Hoggard married Margaret Johnson in 1822 when both were about 19. Margaret gave…
Ill Repute, Hill Side, Crow Steps, Briol & Rosthstein, Corn Shocks & Court House
One historical goose chase deserves another…and another…and another… Yet another labyrinthian research project! So a few weeks ago I stumbled across an 1870 census listing of a “House of Ill Repute” in Chillicothe, and challenged anyone on Facebook to figure out where it was. The best evidence is that it was a two-storied brick house…
Intrepid Heritage Services • Kevin B. Coleman
450,000,000 Years of South Central Ohio Heritage in Word, Image, and Action Well, I’m only seven months late to get my shiny new website going, so…here goes!
Wending Through Walhalla – Exploring Clintonville’s Paradise Ravine (Walhalla Part 2)
Or, Walhalla Uncovered – As It Should Be…Unlike in Part 1. In part one, I showed how I happened across a grilled-over well-like shaft at the edge of High Street to see Walhalla’s stream flowing deep beneath. That took me downstream in a ravine devoid of the stream (tunnelized under West Tulane) until I reached…
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