The Twenty Mile House is at risk for demolition and a concerned group of folks are working to save it. Check out their info page on Facebook at
If you google twenty mile house you will find several other Twenty Mile houses in other states. Apparently that was a common name for taverns designating a twenty mile point from some significant place.
The other preservation effort is Tom Mullett's work to move the Hart Road one room school house to Camp Kern. It looks very promising. Tom's wife was a Miller of the Miller Road Millers in Lebanon. He lost his wife recently and wants to restore the school as an educational center in her honor. Tom and Camp Kern will have to move the building brick by brick, but a building that is standing empty now will once again serve children and that's a good thing.
Tom is on the hunt for old school desks. He's on the hunt for Ohio made desks from either the Sidney, Ohio company which made the Eclipse #2 desk or the Pickaway Company that made the Columbia #2 desk. If you have any desks or know of any that might be donated to the project please let us know. 513-932-1817.
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