Historic Lodging in the Hocking Hills

   

Here are some local links for nearby  places and web sites we know our Historic Host Guests would enjoy:

www.vintoncountytravel,.com

Offers tourism information and the web site hasa printable historic tour of the Lake Hope State Park region including an iron furnace, a pioneer cemetery and the Haunted Moonville Tunnel. The site also offers information and directions to the five remaining covered bridges and to the 27 “Quilt Barns” throughout scenic back roads.

 

www.LakehopeStatePark.com

Read the history of Ohio’s first State Park and notice all the places to visit right in the park.  For more historic information, go to the links page to “The Olde Forester” for Emmitt Conway’s tales of the local Native Americans and various mining endeavors throughout the area.  Look also for “The Moonville Ghost” link

 

www.moonvillerailtrail.com

Be sure to visit the ‘haunted’  train tunnel any way you can….on foot, bicycle or horse, or even by car.  The organization is developing an extensive trail over the empty rail bed.

 

www.columbuswashboard.com

Columbus Washboard Company,   14 Gallagher St.,  Logan OH 43138  Handcrafted washboards since 1895 and the only washboard factory left in America. Housed in a huge, former shoe factory, the company offers free factory tours from 9-3 weekdays.

www.themakersofhandforgediron.com

Master blacksmith/artist Doug Lockhart  performs magic with metals at his forge at the back of the washboard factory.  Same address and hours

 

www.hockingvalleytrain.com

Family-friendly train rides in vintage railroad cars and cabooses depart the station in Nelsonville twice daily on Saturday and Sunday from Memorial Day through October.  Special event theme trips are also scheduled. The train makes a stop at Robbins Crossing on the campus of Hocking College, a collection of original log cabins from the area.  These were moved to the campus and restored. You can watch costumed interpreters as they go about their daily “lives” in the village.

 

www.stuartsoperahouse.org

Beautifully restored opera house in Nelsonville with a full schedule of music and theatre events.

 

www.HockingCountyHistoricalSociety.com

Lots of local history housed in six buildings at 64 N. Culver St. in Logan.  Open Tuesday – Saturday, 1-4 p.m. May – October. 

 
   

www.littlecitiesofblackdiamonds.org

Peruse a huge and complete collection of information, books, photos and much more relating to the major coal towns of the area and the people who lived and worked there. Watch for the well-organized periodic tours of the area.

 

www.eclipsecompanytown.com

A restored mining town built atop a coal mine around 1900. Twelve houses with beautiful flowers and the company store have been restored. A couple of the houses are now cafes and the town is a stop on the HockHocking Bike Trail.  It makes an interesting visit just east of The Plains on Johnson Road,  if you’re heading toward Athens on St. Rt. 33.

 

www.countryschoolsassociation.org  Another huge site for lovers, preservers, historians  and interpreters of one-room schools in America.  It has an annual conference, an extensive newsletter, lots of historic resources, and is developing a web site section of restored school buildings where you can spend a night or two.

 

www.preservationdirectory.com

A remarkable compendium of preservation resources and offers an extensive listing of historic lodging in every state in the country.

 

 www.heartofocking.com

Features information about the Hocking Hills Region including Hocking County, Vinton County and beyond.

   
   
 

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Historic Host was started in 2007 by Sue and Jim Maxwell who have more than 20 years of experience in hospitality and tourism. Over the years they have developed several Bed & Breakfasts, most recently Ravenwood Castle in the Hocking Hills area of Ohio.

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106 East North St.  |  P.O. Box 31 |  McArthur, OH 45651
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