History In Your Own Backyard produces short documentary videos on historic buildings, sites, towns and people so that future generations can understand what we were so fortunate to enjoy in 2023.
North Dearborn High had the best marching band ever!! Basketball ruled the roost. The movie 'Hoosiers' was nearly like the years back then. I have the basketball hoop from Guilford.
Back in the early 70's myself and my mother delivered the Cincinnati Enquire newspaper and a few customers in Milton. We lived on Hartford Rd on Loughery Creek
My favorite building here in Cincinnati. Close second and third are the times star building and the Carew tower, respectively. I consider the rotunda to be “Cincinnati’s great pyramid”
grew up in Kennard spent many sundays at the track back in the 60s. Also had friends that lived in the cabins back in the 50s. We use to drive our honda scooters around the track an Gorge would come out run us off. Great memories
I’m legit from summer mountain road and the bridge actually stopped being used well before the 90s cause my grandmother never actually saw it open and she lived on that road since the 50s. I know the old man who actually owns that land on the one side of the creek and other side.
Cool Ship History! Great old photos! Kenosha has some cool history, wish I could've seen the AMC plant before it was torn down, the AMX javelin I had was built there!👍
Covington has beautiful buildings and so many wonderful people. We have lots of beautiful churches in Covington and Latonia areas. Glad you did this story, it’s beautiful
FYI, THE BRIDGE WILL NOT BE DEMOLISHED. I LIVE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE TO THE BRIDGE. WE USE IT DAILY ALONG WITH OUR NEIGHBORS. WE NEED THIS BRIDGE! RIPLEY COUNTY ASSURED ME IT IS NOT COMING DOWN BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE THE FUNDS TO REBUILD.
My hometown (currently liveing there Info: School Dist.: Little Miami Panthers Schools: Little Miami High School, Salem Township Elem., Little Miami Junior High School/Middle School Townships: Hamilton, Salem County: Warren Major Highways: OH 123, OH 48, US 22 Major places: Morrow Arts Center (Former school)
My Family Lived in Wollcottville!! My Grand parents owned a Cabin on Whitmer Lake! A place I was Lucky enough to spend Summers after we moved to Colorado in 1968! I was about 2 when the Palm Sunday Tornados Hit! I think that's why Mom & Dad had decided to Move to Colorado. I also had Grand parents in Kendallville where we would spend Half of our summer visit helping our Grandpa in the gardens!! He had a Big Beautiful Yard & a HUGE GARDEN!! I Miss them all So Much. I m sure Both towns have changed So Much. In 1978 Mom decided we should move back for a year! So we Did! That year was an Incredible Snowstorm! I have Never seen that much snow again! That little Cabin at Whitmer was Nearly buried. It took our Relatives who lived about a half mile away over a week to get to us! They came and dug out our door. We were stuck in there ! The only way out was onto a screened porch, Which was completely surrounded by SNOW! Thank Goodness for Relatives. My Grandpa Herbert Beekman was Very involved with what went on In Town. I got my Love of Weather apparatus from Him! I Also Learned how to Listen for Warnings in the weather bulletins ! I learned a lot from Him & Grandma !
My dad worked in that building in the 80s for a company called Holiday Amusement. They owned around 17 to 20 movie theaters and drive-ins in the Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky area. Whenever I went to work with him, I would always go to the basement because it was packed with candies for the concession stands. He said the building (and the company) was owned by a guy named Ben Cohen and the upstairs was rented out to a local labor union during that time. The faux rock walls were actually in Ben’s office. Hopefully that fills in a little more history of the building.
Will have to check this out. It is in the next county. Railroad is Canadian Pacific Kansas City and it is the mainline from Canada to Mexico. Steam loco was here earlier this year.
Yeah, the video I wanted to release just wasn't quite ready so I went with this one. We were out in Iowa last week and shot 46 videos in 3 days....We were busy.
Thank you so much for doing a feature on Milton! The house at minute 8:33 is the house that my family lived in from the late 60's to the mid 70's, My parents owned the house, out buildings, 3 ponds, bottoms and creek frontage. It all sat on 365 acres. They raised tobacco, corn, beans, hogs, beef cows and had a milking operation during our time there. My mom had a huge garden to the west of the house and canned everything! My younger sister and myself went to Cass Union School. It had four classrooms, but taught grades 1-6. The 6th grade class had their own classroom but the other grades had to double up on the remaining classrooms. Eventually, Cass Union was closed and we were bused to Rising Sun when the the new school was built. Many trips to Hartford Pike as children and Palmers Grocery Store - both several miles away. My dad's name was Tom Miller and several of the Millers lived in the Loughery Creek Valley area. Seeing a few of the relative's old homesteads in your video was pretty neat! The area has a special energy to it and it always seems to call to my sisters and I. I think our family may of been one of three that lived in Milton during our tenure.
