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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…

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