Join Kevin Coleman for hospitality at the new antique mall at 250 Park Street, “A Step Back in Time.” Then hear about and walk through the micro-industrial zone in and around the one-and-a-half block area with workers’ houses much like Chillicothe’s Goosetown and Columbus’ German Village.

As long as it’s not a November gale, downpour, or freeze, we’ll keep warm with an about hour-and-a-half walk to Mill Street and Water Street – ending with warm refreshments at the shop again.

Arrive early or stay later to peek into the barn-like loft above the antique displays in the 1925 “private garage.”

The industries on and near Park Street changed through time, and included a cooper shop, brewery, carriage factory, coal gas production and storage plant, the city’s second water plant, slaughterhouse and pork packing plant, ice plant, electrical plant (taken over at gunpoint by Camp Sherman), saw mill and lumber yard, desk factory, cement block factory, bottling factory, ice cream factory, an early steam-powered flour mill (at the site of the YMCA, and the namesake of Mill Street),
dairy…and large storage garage.

The Ohio Erie Canal served some of them from 1831 to 1907, as did a railroad siding. And this excludes busy nearby West Water Street! Also, an Underground Railroad sub-basement is under one of the houses, near the boomtown-fronted neighborhood store.

$10 for adults, and as usual, half that for student who want to listen and learn.  Please register (“confirm”) in my Facebook Event page, if you’re a FB member.

Learn more about “A Step Back in Time” at
https://www.facebook.com/groups/380063732696682/