Two nice towns that seem to be on the way to everywhere...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Columbus rowhouse?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mt Gilead is about as cute as it gets.  Galion looks pretty good too, and the movie theater is extra cool.  What I really like about little burgs like these is the proximity of old grand houses to the downtown area. One or two blocks from the main street and its pure residential. 

Gotta love those small Ohio towns!!

Great shots.

Very sweet small towns, in good condition with active downtowns. I'm impressed that they have local pharmacies and hardware stores, and the historic structures look well cared for.

When I worked in Lewis Center, a lot of people I knew commuted down there from these towns.  They are kinda like the Granvilles, or Londons of the north.  Mt Gilead looks nice, Galion so-so.

I actually prefer Galion over the two actually. Galion is a slightly larger city with more defined architecture, larger scaled buildings, a pleasant square, and a breathtaking Carnegie; that isn't to say anything negative about Mt. Gilead.

i always see the signs, but I never stop...

 

huh?

Wow, don't know how I missed this before.  Great pics of my hometown, Ink.  Unfortunately, Galion High School is now largely a pile of rubble -- we joined the dozens of communities losing traditional school buildings this year, despite best efforts to allow for an adaptive reuse project.

 

Never underestimate the power of an uninformed, hell-bent Board of Education!

 

I'm a Mount Gilead fan as well; I have many friends there and have had several cases in the Morrow County Courthouse.  I think that I may have mentioned this before, but the Capitol Theatre is a great place to see a movie.

 

Preservation Ohio is looking at a behind-the-scenes tour in this part of Ohio this Fall -- a chance to visit sites in Mansfield and Galion, as well as the site of the Battle of Olentangy, which is located between Galion and Bucyrus... which was, I believe, the only open field engagement between British and Colonial troops that took place in Ohio during the Revolutionary War period.  Click http://liberty92.wordpress.com/2007/06/10/the-final-battle-of-the-revolutionary-war-in-ohio/ for some pics of the 225th Anniversary Reenactment.

 

Around these parts, it is usually referred to as the "Battle of Olentangy," not "The Battle of the Olentangy."  The actual battlefield location was just discovered within the last few years.