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Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 7, 2026
Harry’s offers a wide selection of burgers and side dishes. Piggy’s Ice Cream was not open when we visited. In between the two buildings was the Hooterville Jail which you could pose behind the jail bars. Next door, various animal sculptures adorned the rooftop.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 7, 2026
This was very unique as a John Deere tractor is located on top of a thirty+ foot silo located at a family farm and apple orchard.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: May 16, 2026
Although this roadside attraction cow was very large and in good condition, I still expected it to be much bigger (although it is larger than the cow in Waynesville, Ohio). It is easy to find and stands by the entrance to a flea market.
The EAA Chapter 48 hosts this event on the first Sunday in May at the Moraine Airpark. It is the nation’s longest running same day continuous fly-in now in its 66th year. As a member of the Wright Seaplane Base Inc. club, which keeps alive the history of Orville Wrights 100 hydroaeroplane or seaplane test flights between 1912 and 1914 on the Miami River in Moraine & West Carrollton, I was volunteering at the WSBI tent. The event featured over 50 vintage, experimental or modern planes, great food and helicopter rides. My sister and I took our first ever helicopter ride on a Robinson R-44 (built in 2008) and enjoyed a thrilling ride with outstanding views of the Miami River, Dayton area, and suburbs. The grandkids enjoyed sitting in the plane’s cockpits.
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 21, 2026
This large park featured wetlands, forests and prairies. We warmed up on the one-mile Red Oak Trail taking us through woods where we saw chipmunks and many birds. A short prairie trail took us past a Wind & Solar Learning Center (with a large wind turbine) then to the longer Marsh Hawk Trail and a small portion of the Savannah Trail which is a horse trail. In all, we hiked just over four miles. I took a photo of a teenager that had a unique backpack with a window for carrying her dog on the bike trail (Photo #4).
Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
On this sunny, warm spring day we hiked 13 different small trails throughout this Clark County Park District park totaling 4.1 miles. We began on Tecumseh Trail cresting Whiner’s Hill and past a beautiful waterfall. The 300-year-old beech-maple forest provided nice shade as we passed wildflowers and listened to many birds chirping. The trail then took down small hills, westward winding past the shore of Hosterman Lake then southwest eventually coming to a fort and the 1854 Hertzler House. Several smaller trails then took us past Tecumseh Springs to the Woodland Indian Village.
The triangular fort and blockhouse are modeled after a larger one in the Shawnee Village of Peckuwe. This area of the park and the land west of the Hertzler House were the site of the Battle of Piqua or Picawey on August 8, 1780, the largest battle fought west of the Allegheny Mountains during the Revolutionary War. Kentucky Militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clarks defeated Shawnee and other Indian tribes.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
The mound, the largest conical mound in Clark County, is the second largest in Ohio next to the larger Adena Mound in Miamisburg, Ohio. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the mound was reportedly used by Gen. George Rogers Clark in 1780 as a vantage point prior to the attack on the Shawnee Village of Picawey located two miles to the north. The mound is 40 feet high and there has been no evidence that burials exist in the mound nor have any Adena artifacts have been found.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller
Date: April 11, 2026
The house sits on land near the remains of the Keifer cabin (built around 1824) and two monuments about the Battle of Piqua or Picawey in August 1780 between Kentucky militiamen under Col. George Rogers Clark vs. Shawnee and other Indian tribes. The house sits upon a small hill overlooking the main battlefield.
The brick house was built circa 1854 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Daniel and his wife Catharine lived in the house with their ten children. Daniel Hertzler moved to the area in 1834 and became wealthy. He made his money operating a sawmill, grist mill and distillery. In 1855 he established the Old Clark County Bank. In the fall of 1867, he was nearing the completion of construction on a new milling business.
On October 10, 1867, Hertzler was murdered. During the night, the Hertzler Family was awakened by a gang of robbers. During a fight, Daniel Hertzler was shot and killed. Records indicate that four people were arrested but two were acquitted and two escaped from jail.
As the urban legend goes, the ghost of Hertzler haunts his house, unsettled that he died, that no one was arrested and the killer roamed free. In addition, in the land surrounding the house dozens of Native Americans and militiamen were killed in the battle of Piqua/Picawey. So, there is a belief that ghosts and spirits roam the house and grounds. Although I have found no evidence on the internet to support these paranormal claims, I hope that my ghost hunting group may be allowed access some day to conduct an investigation here.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller, Nick, Jacque, Elizabeth & John Kelly
Date: April 21, 2026
This was a fun, unique roadside attraction restaurant as we celebrated Jacque’s birthday. You could grab sushi, food and desserts from a conveyor that snaked throughout the restaurant. We opted to order and within minutes a train or truck on small tracks pulled a dish behind it with our order. The grandkids excitedly watched it travel towards our table where we “offloaded” our meal. Later, a giant white robot brought drinks and a birthday dessert down the aisle to our table.
Expedition Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: April 21, 2026
I posed with founder Dave Thomas’s statue and tried to steal his Frostee. This elegant, decorated Wendy’s Restaurant not only served its great food but had a room dedicated as a museum to Dave Thomas and Wendy’s restaurant’s growth. It was very educational to read about his humble early life, the founding of Wendy’s, its growth to franchising nationally and internationally and his support for adoption. I enjoyed a photo of the “Where’s the Beef” advertisement.
