If I were to ask you a question like, “Who was the first woman to work in the aviation industry?” would you have any idea who I was talking about? You might assume the answer would be someone like Katherine Wright, sister or Orville and Wilbur, but that’s not it. It was nobody related to […]
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
When it was first settled in the mid-1880s, many people had thought or hoped the village would soon prosper. And, for a short time, it did. The town’s first settlers, Simon and Elizabeth Clouser moved in and set up a mill, which was in demand at the time for there weren’t any other mills in
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, Places
For today’s outing, we’re going to step just outside the limits of the State of Ohio and visit a place … well, the place doesn’t exactly have a name, so we’ll just say it’s near Petersburg, Kentucky. Lawrenceburg, Indiana is, technically, a bit closer, but it’s on the other side of the Ohio river. If
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History
I know, I know … talking about Cryptids usually causes people to roll their eyes and start thinking about more pleasant topics, like the best ways to watch paint dry. We’ve all had to sit through one too many stories about someone seeing “Bigfoot” but by the time they grabbed their cellphone to take a
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History, Myths and Legends, Places