If you want to watch the Chillicothe fireworks from Carlisle Hill...how about learning about the hill? And the curious, cantankerous, canted steps that meander up it? As well as the bedrock that slips under it, the working-class neighborhood on it that has been largely erased, the scenic Victorian and Art & Crafts homes atop it, […]
The Hoggard Trail in Ross County's Buzzard's Roost Preserve has both natural and historical scenery. In the forest are remnants of 200 years of human alterations: a public road, house ruins, mico-quarries, pine plantations, a graveyard...and periwinkle, which does not plant itself. Join Kevin Coleman 2 to 4pm Saturday, July 9th, and 9 to 11am […]
The Hoggard Trail in Ross County's Buzzard's Roost Preserve has both natural and historical scenery. In the forest are remnants of 200 years of human alterations: a public road, house ruins, mico-quarries, pine plantations, a graveyard...and periwinkle, which does not plant itself. Join Kevin Coleman 2 to 4pm Saturday, July 9th, and 9 to 11am […]
The Hoggard Trail in Ross County's Buzzard's Roost Preserve has both natural and historical scenery. In the forest are remnants of 200 years of human alterations: a public road, house ruins, mico-quarries, pine plantations, a graveyard...and periwinkle, which does not plant itself. For those who missed my offering of a historical and geological tour of […]
Chillicothe's historic downtown was not just for white-collar jobs. The canal, railroads, utilities, mills, small factories, warehouses of all kinds, liveries, restaurants, printers, a brewery, a shoe factory, and even a river wharf, are some of the working-class employers in and near the business district - many of whose buildings still stand. Tours begin where […]
Enjoy an Oktoberfest "Goosetown" walking tour by Kevin Coleman 2-4pm Saturday October 1st & 10am-12pm Sunday October 2nd, 2022. Learn about many aspects of Chillicothe's working-class German neighborhood named after the residents' floating livestock. You'll see and hear about workers' cottages with scherenschnitte attic vents and a butcher's Romanesque castle...canal and railroad superhighways...Camp Bull and […]
Enjoy an Oktoberfest "Goosetown" walking tour by Kevin Coleman 2-4pm Saturday October 1st & 10am-12pm Sunday October 2nd, 2022. Learn about many aspects of Chillicothe's working-class German neighborhood named after the residents' floating livestock. You'll see and hear about workers' cottages with scherenschnitte attic vents and a butcher's Romanesque castle...canal and railroad superhighways...Camp Bull and […]
By request, this Sunday Kevin Coleman will offer a walking tour of the 100 block of Vine and Church streets, as well as a look at Chestnut Street and St. Peter Church and School. Join Kevin and neighborhood residents in the courtyard besides St. Peter's at 2pm October 16th, 2022, for an hour-and-a-half walk around […]
A walking tour of Grandview Cemetery's funerary architecture, history, and natural aspects, in honor of Veterans Day. If you missed my spring tours of Chillicothe's scenic landmark burial ground, join me for an opportunity for my guided tour of it this fall - with a nod to those buried there - 2pm Sunday, November 13th, […]
'Tis the season for statehood in Chillicothe. Join Kevin Coleman for a presentation on buildings from the period, and a tour of one of them. Now the home of Neil Coleman Insurance at the corner of Western Avenue and Locust Street, enjoy a tour and talk at the Walke House 2 to 4pm both Saturdays, […]
