Dublin always reminded me of Centerville.

 

If the Centerville/Washington Township merger actually happened, Centerville's population would jump to 76,000, making it largest 10th largest city in Ohio.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That last photo is the best Centerville photo I've ever seen.

 

I've eaten at this City Barbeque place quite a few times.  There is a Graeter's attached to it.  Such a combination also exists in Beavercreek, making me believe that these two chains are related like Wendy's and Tim Horton's used to be.  What gives?

I think the "affinity" is simply that people who eat carcinogen-laden, albeit delicious smoked meats are prime candidates for partaking in high butterfat ice cream afterward. ;)

Centerville is a very nice town. Their newer downtown/near-downtown developments is very nice and are adapted to the street-level -- like the Panera Bread.

 

Or should it be Centreville?

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Centerville is correct.  They did do a good job on the Panera Bread place.

 

You can see two businesses here that relocated from the Webster Station loft area...Square One and Ashley & Hillary.

 

Ink took some pix of the stone houses.  The collection of stone houses is one of the unique features of the community, legacy of an early quarry/stonecutting industry.

 

This older area is sort of nice becuase it is fairly walkable, and that the first subdivisions were built adjacent, so people who live in the those plats can walk into town if they wanted.  It's really a pleasant place, though trafficy.

 

 

I think the "affinity" is simply that people who eat carcinogen-laden, albeit delicious smoked meats are prime candidates for partaking in high butterfat ice cream afterward. ;)

 

My great-uncle loved homemade ice cream made with the cream skimmed from the top of the ten-gallon milk cans, fresh from the cows. He trimmed the fat from pan-fried steaks while they were still sizzling and ate that first, and then soaked up the fryings from the pan with bread homemade with lard for shortening. His favorite breakfast was sausage from the hogs they butchered on the farm and eggs from their own hens, with toast from that homemade bread, slathered with real butter.

 

Probably his habit of rolling his own cigarettes from Prince Albert tobacco that came in an orange tin can was what kept him from ever weighing more than about 140 pounds.

 

He paid for all that self-indulgence, though. He died when he was only 94 years old. Had he eaten food that tasted like cardboard and abstained from the Prince Albert, who knows? He might still be farming, thirty years later.

 

Everyone has the right to choose between a dour, possibly long, life of self-imposed deprivation, or a joyous, possibly shorter life indulging in the pleasures that are readily available.

 

Oh, and I almost forgot - great pics of a charming-looking town. I love the historic buildings and the tidy appearance of the place.

Nice and quaint!  But why is it named Centerville?  (What is it in the center of?) :)

The center of Washington Township. Coincidentally it is also at the top of the drainage divide of the Great and Little Miami River watersheds.

Downtown Centerville is everything downtown Springboro wish it could be.

 

The Mexican restaurant in the old school house is very cool and the food is pretty good.

 

 

 

The center of Washington Township. Coincidentally it is also at the top of the drainage divide of the Great and Little Miami River watersheds.

 

Ahh..........makes sense.  And here I thought it was just another Ohio town thinking they were the Center of the World.........but thats just in Trumbull County

 

LMAO :D

Nice pics of the hometown, I am headed back this weekend for my 20th reunion of CHS.

^ thanks for bumping this thread up, i'll be there next week myself. my inlaws live across the street from chs.

Dublin always reminded me of Centerville.

 

If the Centerville/Washington Township merger actually happened, Centerville's population would jump to 76,000, making it largest 10th largest city in Ohio.

 

 

 

i'll ask my father in law what's up about merger talk lately when i see him.

 

i looked and if cville "columbused" wash twp it would = around the pop of lorain, except with twice the acreage....and probably 10x the money! 

 

 

 

 

I must admit.  I grew up in Centerville/Washington Township and have been to a bunch of Ohio suburbs and it is probably one of the nicer suburbs in Ohio.  It has a very "home-y" feel to it and has a nice little center of town (pictured above).  I will try to take some pictures of Yankee Trace clubhouse as well as some of the retail and parks and post them here.  I has a decent mix of restaurants and public facilities.

 

Thanks for posting!