After reading the title of this post, those of you familiar with Ohio history might be thinking, “Amy, you’re 5 years too late.” Yes, I know that Ohio’s Bicentennial was March 1, 2003. However, I just wanted to explain the new picture at the top of the blog.
One of the ways that Ohio celebrated its Bicentennial was to paint at least one barn in each county with the Ohio Bicentennial logo. The one shown at the top is the one in New Albany, Franklin County. It is visible from the west-bound lanes of State Route 161 just east of Kitzmiller Road. I took the photo last summer from the old Dublin-Granville Road.
Like many people, I had the goal of photographing each of the barns in all 88 counties. Unfortunately, it’s not going to happen, as some have already been torn down. (The one in Hocking County, for example, was torn down in 2004.) Many of the remaining barns are fading. They are still neat to find.
The OhioBarns.com website has a section devoted to the Bicentennial Barns, including photos and exact locations of almost all of them.
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March 4, 2008 at 2:25 am
Ken Spangler
Thanks so much for the great read! I don’t consider myself a newbie to genealogy research but I was delighted to find a website that I hadn’t heard of! I will have to check out WeRelate and see what it is about. It looks pretty interesting.
It’s also interesting to see another person who chose Roots Magic. I definitely have to check that one out.
I’m loving this Carnival of Genealogy!
Ken
March 4, 2008 at 10:59 am
Chery Kinnick
Amy, it’s good to hear from you again. Fun post, and I hope you are able to track down Matilda (we know she’s out there, somewhere).
Please consider a post about some of your favorite tombstone enscriptions. I think that would be a GREAT prompt for others. If you start, I promise I’ll join in.
Chery
March 4, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Nikki-ann
600 photos in cemeteries in 1 weekend?! That’s got to be some kind of record!
March 6, 2008 at 7:11 am
Amy
Ken — Thanks for stopping by! I bet you’ll enjoy exploring WeRelate. There are so many possibilities for its use.
Chery — Good to see you! I’ve had lots of ideas for posts, but very little time to do any of them. Hopefully when finals are done next week, I can get a little time to relax and do some fun stuff
I’ll accept your challenge and post some of my favorite tombstones!
Nikki-ann — Thanks for stopping in! One of the cemeteries I visited was Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. That place is *huge*! The variety of stones was incredible.