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One of the unique features of Ariel-Foundation Park in Mt. Vernon, Ohio is the River of Glass. The art installation was constructed to pay homage to PPG Works No. 11, honoring the significant contributions of the family members who worked for PPG Glassworks. Flowing down one of the hillsides near…
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Great experience at the Cox Arboretum MetroPark in Dayton, Ohio! My mom loved it a lot. We didn’t see any butterfly at the butterfly shed, but it was still a great visit! I recommend that you visit on a summer to see all the flowers blooming and to fully enjoy…
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The petroglyphs that you can find at the Leo Petroglyphs and Nature Preserve in Ray, Ohio include 37 figurative drawings of humans, birds, animal and human foot prints, a fish, a snake and other figures that are carved into the rock outcropping on the gently sloping hillside above a steep…
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What with this Chief Leatherlips Monument that appears on Google when I search for places to see in Dublin, Ohio? The 12-foot high monument is a tribute to Chief Shateyaronyah (known by American frontiersmen as Chief Leatherlips), a leader of the Native American Wyandot tribe. According to history, Chief Leatherlips was…
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Located at the southwest portion of the Caesar’s Creek State Park in Waynesville, Ohio, the Pioneer Village is an open air museum with a collection of over 15 historical log cabins and houses that date back as afar as the 18th century. Each house and cabin has a historical story…
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I had been to other aviation museums and locations around southern Ohio — from Dayton’s National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, Wright Brothers National Museum, Wright Cycle Company, Wright Brothers Memorial, to Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, even attended the Vectren Dayton Air Show…
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Who doesn’t want a little oddity in the middle of a park? The Hollow Earth Theory Monument stands in the middle of the Symmes Park Playground in Hamilton, Ohio. Its history is interesting, to say the least. The monument is the gravesite of Capt. John Cleves Symmes, an 1812 war…
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The Hopeton Earthworks in Chillicothe, Ohio was one of the grandest geometric earthworks the American Indians of the Hopewell culture built 2000 years ago. The complex includes a 20-acre circle (~1,050 feet diameter), a 20-acre square, at least two small circles and parallel walls (5 feet high, 2,400 feet long,…
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