Posted January 22, 200817 yr Wellston...rednecks souja boy-ing in the streets and a downtown grocery... City Hall A wonderful depot! A downtown Kroger? Be jealous, Cincy.
January 22, 200817 yr I think McConnellsville has an old school Kroger's like that one. Blanchester used to, but a replacement store was built a few years ago.
January 22, 200817 yr I had to look this one up on the map. Nice job! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
January 22, 200817 yr Wellston...rednecks souja boy-ing in the streets AHAHAAHAHA, totally true! The last time I was through there I saw 12-year-old "gang bangin' thugs" all over the place.
January 22, 200817 yr I've never been to Wellston. Thanks for the highlights. I'll have to make a detour when I go to get shots of the courthouses in Jackson and Gallipolis.
January 23, 200817 yr A few years ago I worked in a firm with someone from Wellston, and from the pictures it pretty much appears as he described it. But Steve (as I'll call him) was a member of Wellston society. His family owns a large coal mining operation there and I imagined him growing up in a house that was similar to the city hall pictured. His mother--looking stylishly designer-y-- would travel to New York regularly for the theater. I doubt if any of them ever got close enough to the mines to be in danger of contracting black lung disease! http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 24, 200817 yr Nice mix. The depot is indeed pretty nifty, and the town hall is grand. It looks like it probably was a private home (mansion) originally.
May 13, 200817 yr Wow, I didn't know these threads existed. I'm originally from Wellston. The depot is great, it was restored in the late 1980s/early 1990s. As for the City Building, I don't know that it was ever a mansion, because it is absolutely huge--probably 3 times as big as any house in town, at least. But it could be. It was severely damaged in a spectacular fire in the mid 80s, but rebuilt. (My grandfather's dental practice was in the building next door.) Sadly, it's gone downhill from just when I was a kid. Lots of potential, but the storefronts get emptier, and the development has moved south on 93 closer to the intersection with 32. (And all the schools are now nearly out of town, north on 327.) Still, fond memories...but I couldn't move back there from the 'Nati. East Village Don, I bet I could guess a family name of the folks you are referencing.
May 13, 200817 yr If you look at the old Sanborns for the town the place is fascinating. Blast furnances, casting houses, and coal mines right in town ..in one case a mine head was right next door to a furnace. The place must have been positively dantesque.
May 13, 200817 yr Wow, I didn't know these threads existed. I'm originally from Wellston. The depot is great, it was restored in the late 1980s/early 1990s. As for the City Building, I don't know that it was ever a mansion, because it is absolutely huge--probably 3 times as big as any house in town, at least. But it could be. It was severely damaged in a spectacular fire in the mid 80s, but rebuilt. (My grandfather's dental practice was in the building next door.) Sadly, it's gone downhill from just when I was a kid. Lots of potential, but the storefronts get emptier, and the development has moved south on 93 closer to the intersection with 32. (And all the schools are now nearly out of town, north on 327.) Still, fond memories...but I couldn't move back there from the 'Nati. East Village Don, I bet I could guess a family name of the folks you are referencing. It starts with "We..." Same one? http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
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