Category: Ohio
Rescuing An Old Gem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/26Nov25-Fort-Recovery-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the late 1800s, this town was in need of a place to hold large gatherings and what resulted was…
Fort Recovery
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/25Nov25-Fort-Recovery-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1791 the U.S. Army lost hundreds of soldiers in battle in present day west central Ohio. When a new…
Preserving Land for Settlement
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/24Nov25-Fort-Recovery-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)As this nation neared it’s twentieth birthday, President George Washington was intent on securing the land in present day Ohio…
A Reputation for Transportation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/20Nov25-Bellfountain-Ohio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This Ohio town has long been known for it’s tie to transportation. Name any mode of travel and they probably…
The First Concrete Street
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/19Nov25-Bellfountain-Concrete-Street.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It takes a lot of work to keep up roads and highways. It a moment I’ll take you to the…
President Grant’s Mobile Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2024/02/19Feb24-Grant-Boyhood-Home.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Presidential birthplaces are visited by many tourists each year. But no home may have quite the story as this small…
Avoiding Locust Trees and Other Obstacles
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/12Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton that…
The Wright Brothers in Dayton, Ohio
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2023/07/11Jul23-Wright-Brothers-Dayton-Ohio-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio…
Pop Top Soda and More!
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/15Nov21-Dayton-Carillon-Historical-Park.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re over 40 years old, you probably remember aluminum cans that had the old pull off tabs. Today of…
Wright Flyer III
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/11/12Nov21-Wright-Brothers-Flyer.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Wright Brothers first took flight in 1903 and that plane is in the Smithsonian. But the brothers said there…
More Than An Ice Cream Cone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone? It is here. It’s a family…
Young’s Jersey Dairy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history. Not only have they been milking cows…
Cemeteries without Headstones
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/30Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cemeteries usually have headstones to make the spot of loved ones who have passed. But this civilization used something far…
Long Before Columbus…
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/29Mar21-Hopewell-Mounds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe…but that mentality is to forget about the centuries…
The Non-Electric Shopping Mall
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/26Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you lived without electricity…either by choice or simply because of the location you lived…where would you go to find…
A Successful Business That’s Behind the Times
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/03/25Mar21-Lehmans-Amish-Store-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times…but for jay Lehman…doing the…
The Coonskin Library
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/10/21Oct19-Coonskin-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)It’s called the Coonskin Library, a private library established on the American frontier. But few people today would know the…
The American Whistle Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/05/23May19-American-Whistle-Company.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)You might hear it because someone is in danger, or you could hear it when you’ve done something wrong. Whatever…
The Jesse Owens Story
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/12Oct18-Jesse-Owens-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)He won four gold medals in track and field at the 1936 Olympics, a feat that would not be duplicated…
From Sharecropper to Legend
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/10/11Oct18-Jesse-Owens-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)He was born into a family of sharecroppers in northern Alabama. His time on this farm lasted until the age…
