Yeah. Well.

 

 

 

 

 

Rare rural art deco

 

 

Rear of school

 

Looks like seicer has been here

 

 

 

 

Wow, so much for small town charm. 

Lame

Excellent photos, not-so-excellent small town. With one or two exceptions, it looks like they're letting the town fall apart.

Yup.

Harveysburg was bypassed due to Caesar's Creek Lake construction in the late 1970s. Ohio 73 used to go through town as "Main Street" and was relocated alongside town to a four lane highway. And some of the city streets basically end in the drink. The impression I get when I drive around there is the ghosts of a once active little town.

 

Most of these small towns that get bypassed die a slow death. Nobody stops to buy gas or shop in the center of town, the stores close, the real estate values go down, and there's little interest in keeping things repaired.

 

I was in high school when Caesar's Creek was being built. I drove around the ruins of New Burlington (about 5 miles north, used to be a small crossroads town on Ohio 380) and in late 1976 there were the shells of houses, gutted, ready to be bulldozed, and you could make out old sidewalks on the streets. Everything was cleaned out and today it's on public fish and game land and is flood plain.

 

This is a good resource on Harveysburg history: http://harveysburg.blogspot.com/

Oy.