May 26, 200817 yr While deteriorating, it's strangely inviting. Must be those tiny "patios" taking up the entire skinny sidewalks and all the people riding through by bike.
May 26, 200817 yr Looks like a fella oughta be able to buy the whole town pretty cheap. Kinda cute with some nice relics and bike path, but it looks like a lot of it is being allowed to fall apart.
May 26, 200817 yr The older town area is pretty much a slum that is in a very slow process of being gentrified by pressure from development coming in along Rt 22 from the Landen area (it's basically the farthest northeast part of what you could call the Cincinnati metro area). Just to clarify what rob_1412 said, it's already been allowed to fall apart and anything nice you see now is from development pressure. I've had little kids throw rocks at me there when I've been riding on the bike trail, I left a bike outside a shop in town once and when I came out there was a strange epoxy like goo on the seat, and I once saw a young mother beating her 2-3 yr old on the street. The pattern seems to be that the decrepit part of town is along the former railroad tracks. There are some really interesting looking old buildings in town, like one store front that has a clock face embedded in the stone front (one of the images above shows it), but it's clearly been decades since there was any commercial energy in that town. Morrow is ringed by affluent suburban development. There was once a ski hill outside Morrow, and the land is now being developed as housing. Little Miami High School is about 1 mile west on 22. It's all about location... you can find a few row houses there for $40K.
May 27, 200817 yr ^ There is a sort of a creepy "The Hills Have Eyes" aspect to the place, the older area TheDonald is talking about
May 27, 200817 yr The Little Miami Railroad was the first railroad in Cincinnati, built about 1840, between Cincinnati and Xenia. The narrow Little Miami River valley didn't offer much opportunity for industrial development, and the railroad couldn't stand the competition from parallel railroads in the industrial Mill Creek valley. The Little Miami Railroad eventually became the bike trail. A few storefronts have become ice cream shops but overall the little railroad towns are in a time warp. Loveland, Ohio seems to be bike trail central with families, and only the more serious bikers make it to Morrow.
May 27, 200817 yr I've checked out the history of the Little Miami Railroad. It was mostly phased out by the 1970s, which jibes with the apparent start of the decline of Morrow and South Lebanon. Loveland is also a Little Miami RR town. I remember driving around Loveland in the mid 70s, pre-trail and suburban colonization, and it pretty much reminded me of a jumbo version of Morrow on a steep hill. Loveland is what Morrow could become if a lot of development pressure to improve things came to bear on it. The bike trail is progressively more crowded the closer to Loveland you go. North of Morrow, the trail is fairly dead all the way to Xenia. Basically South Lebanon and north is sedate, south of South Lebanon and you have heavy suburban usage of the trail.
May 28, 200817 yr Interesting. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 2, 200817 yr Reminds me of Camden. Are you referring to Camden, New Jersey? These photos make it seem more run down than it really is. I go to Morrow to Canoe down the Little Miami and there are more cute homes than viewed in this gallery plus there is a ton of sprawl encroaching upon this business district.
June 2, 200817 yr Reminds me of Camden. Are you referring to Camden, New Jersey? These photos make it seem more run down than it really is. I go to Morrow to Canoe down the Little Miami and there are more cute homes than viewed in this gallery plus there is a ton of sprawl encroaching upon this business district. No, that would be Camden, Ohio. http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,15479.0.html
June 3, 200817 yr Reminds me of Camden. Are you referring to Camden, New Jersey? These photos make it seem more run down than it really is. I go to Morrow to Canoe down the Little Miami and there are more cute homes than viewed in this gallery plus there is a ton of sprawl encroaching upon this business district. No. But you could make the case that Camden, Ohio, is the rural midwest version of Camden, New Jersey.
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