There is a stark difference between northwestern Ohio and southeastern Ohio. Besides having flat terrain, northwestern Ohio is much more prosperous, the farms and towns are much neater, and there is less litter along the roads.
My first stop of the day was at the Village Market and Deli in New Knoxville. While there, I struck up a conversation with a gentleman and he was extolling the virtues of the town. I asked if the town had a museum, and he said yes, but it was closed. He also stated that he had a key to the museum and would like to take me to it, but couldn't because he was on his way to a doctor's appointment. No sooner did he leave, than he returned with a woman in tow, and said she had a key to the museum and would open it up for me. I thus ended up with a personal tour of the New Knoxville Historical Society Museum.
Diane Fledderjohann gave me a person tour of the museum. Thank you Diane.
Until recently, new Knoxville had its own local telephone company. This was some of their equipment. Diane told me that when the company was originally founded, it sold 100 shares of stock for $100 apiece, and that her family had been one of the original investors. Over the years the stock had been split so that shares could be divided among family members, etc. She smiled when she said the company had been recently sold for $48,000 per share, but didn't divulge how many shares her family had owned.
As I previously stated, we like this part of the country, and the following road scenes show why. These are not carefully selected photos. For a large portion of the day, traffic was measured in miles per vehicle. :-)
Many of the fields still had last year's crop residue. Some of them have been replanted using no-till methods, but others, like this one, looked fallow.
