The hub of two states....

 

 

Starting on the OHIO side

 

 

 

 

 

That's it, over to Indiana

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neat!

Thanks for posting these. I haven't been there since the late 1960s, when I spent a cold-and-dreary, drizzly late-winter afternoon with friends train-watching along what used to be a very busy mainline. I never paid much attention to the town, then.

I'll take Indiana.

yeah looks like indiana side is more prosprous? is that true? any idea why? taxes i'd imagine.

Some nice looking buildings (on the Indiana side), and I love the house in that last pic.  Thanks for the tour.

yeah looks like indiana side is more prosprous? is that true? any idea why? taxes i'd imagine.

 

The Indiana side is historically where the bulk of the business district was constructed, kind of the opposite of College Corner which straddles the state line two counties south.

Nice pics, this town has impressive architecture!

That place was a hoot when Indiana didn't observe daylight saving time. 

I've always thought that Indiana and Iowa have small town business districts that are better maintained (but not necessarily more thriving) than those of Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.  I've never been able to figure out why exactly.  Do these states incentivize facade maintenance or something?

Having been up there, here are my observations of the two:

 

1.  There is one gas station in Union City, Ohio (Sunoco), and one in Union City, Indiana (Shell).

 

2.  Union City, Ohio, seems to have the only branch of Old National Bank in Ohio, as well as Pizza King.

 

3.  I remember getting a photo of that mast with IN 28, IN 32, and OH 47 markers, just because more than one state was represented on it.

 

4.  I remember seeing a story on the news way back (like 20 years ago) about a restaurant on the border with two clocks, one showing Eastern time and the other showing Central time.  This was when Indiana was on Central time.

 

5.  The post office is on the Indiana side, and the ZIP code for the Ohio version is 45390, and Indiana 47390.  (I am unaware of a post office on the Ohio side.)

 

 

Very interesting!

I've always thought that Indiana and Iowa have small town business districts that are better maintained (but not necessarily more thriving) than those of Wisconsin, Ohio, Illinois, and Minnesota.  I've never been able to figure out why exactly.  Do these states incentivize facade maintenance or something?

 

That hasn't always been the case, and I still see a lot of Indiana small towns with devastated cores. Thirty years ago (not a long time, in my frame of reference), I used to notice that so many downtown buildings in Indiana small towns had suffered the indignities of metal cladding and other desecrations, and when I'd drive through comparable communities in Ohio I'd observe that turn-of-the-twentieth-century downtown buildings often seemed more intact.

 

Two organizations, Indiana Main Streets and Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana have demonstrated the effectiveness of public/private partnerships in several Indiana small towns and small/medium-sized cities. Lafayette, Indiana is a good example of what can happen when a community recognizes its historic downtown assets and works to take advantage of them.