When I was growing up in the Cincinnati suburbs, I remember hearing occasional playground talk about a mysterious portal to hell in the nearby suburb of Blue Ash. They said it was in a tunnel or cave. They said it was a place where Satanists met to summon The Devil Himself. Dark Magic was practiced […]
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History, Myths and Legends
The Story It all started with a newspaper article … from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Yes, the Brooklyn in New York). Dated November 4 (1889), the article states that Deputy United States Marshall Williams of Cincinnati removed a man named James Brown from the Ohio Penitentiary. Brown was described as a deranged man being transferred
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History, Myths and Legends, People
Sometimes, when you look at a map, you can kind of tell how a village, town, or city got its name. Columbus was obviously named after Christopher Columbus. Hamilton was named after Alexander Hamilton. Jackson was named after Andrew Jackson and you get the point. Sometimes, the answers are more geographical, like Hillsboro being named
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, Places, What's In A Name
If you have ever done any traveling, you’re sure to have run across a place with an unusual name. Some of the more famous examples might include places like Truth or Consequences, New Mexico (guess they really loved that game show) … or Nowhere, Colorado which shouldn’t be confused with Nothing, Arizona. Maryland has a
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, Ohio Book Club, Places, What's In A Name
Imagine yourself at some fancy party, perhaps something like the famed Met Gala but somewhere in Ohio … and someone comes up to you and asks, “Hey, complete stranger I’ve never met before, have you ever driven from Moscow to Russia?” What are you going to think? Chances are, if you’re anything like me, your
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Places, What's In A Name
As I began researching ideas of things to write about for The Ohio Project, I came across quite a few references to a place called Laceyville, Ohio. Some referred to it as either a Lost Town or a Ghost Town, while others listed it as “interesting” because it currently sits at the bottom of a
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, Places
Modern Medicine has come a long way since the 1800s and sometimes it can be hard to really understand what it was like way back when because most of what we understand today was still a mystery at that time. Today, we can look back at many of the “medical procedures” that were being done,
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Places, What's In A Name
Waynesville is a small village in Warren County that, according to the 2020 census, houses a little shy of 3,000 souls. It is located around the intersection of US Route 42 and State Route 73. At first glance, it appears to be a reasonably typical village, but if you look a little deeper you will
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History, Myths and Legends, Places
Should you find yourself traveling South-East from Cincinnati either along US Route 52 by car, or down the Ohio River via boat, you will come to a small community called Utopia. If you were to stop and look around a bit, you won’t find much there – a few residential houses, a village market, and
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History, Places, What's In A Name
They say that somewhere in Ohio, there exists a cave that contains the bones of twenty-one escaped slaves. Legend has it that before the Civil War, the escaped slaves entered the cave, trying to hide from the slave hunters that were pursuing them. However, the cave somehow got filled with poisonous gas, suffocating them all.
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History, Myths and Legends