'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, […]
'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, […]
One hundred seventy years ago this April 1st, more than a quarter of Chillicothe burned in the worst disaster to befall the thriving canal town. Join local guide Kevin Coleman in a walking tour of part of the "burned district" to explore the architecture and history of the time of the "Great Fire of 1852" […]
An annual Labor Day weekend walking tour of the small historical industries in downtown Chillicothe, focusing on Water Street from Park Street to Mulberry. 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 […]
An annual Labor Day weekend walking tour of the small historical industries in downtown Chillicothe, focusing on Water Street from Park Street to Mulberry. 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 […]
Join Kevin Coleman for a walking tour of the last 300 million years of history on the rugged terrain and abandoned farms atop sandstone hilltops and shale slopes from 2 to 4pm Sunday, July 25th. After watching my presentation to the Ross County Genealogical Society and a post on my IHS Facebook page and IHS […]
The Hoggard Trail in Ross County's Buzzard's Roost Preserve has both natural and historical scenery. Â Along with the native Spring Beauties, Trout Lilies, Wintergreen, and Pawpaw, are remnants of 200 years of human alterations: a public road, house ruins, mico-quarries, gullied former fields, pine plantations, a graveyard...and daffodils, which do not plant themselves. Join me […]
If it was too hot to take my tour July 19th, here's an encore that should be cooler. Starting at 6pm August 16th, 2020, we'll start at the 1918 "private garage " at 250 Park Street, and take about an hour-and-a-half walk through the micro-industrial zone in and around the one-and-a-half block area - with […]
