Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot 507 West High Street
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 397-5257
Website: www.mountvernondepot.org
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The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad depot, located five blocks west of the square on High Street, served as Mount Vernon's front door for more than 95 years as a telegraph office, freight and passenger railroad station. Owned by the City of Mount Vernon, the B&O depot has undergone a complete renovation which was completed in November 2007. The depot is one of Mount Vernon's community resources and is available for events. The station is located at 507 West High Street, Mount Vernon, Ohio 43050.
As a meeting place, the B&O Depot can seat 60.
Brown Family Environmental Center 9781 Laymon Road
Gambier, OH 43022
(740) 427-5050
Website: bfec.kenyon.edu
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Children investigate the pond in the environmental center's butterfly garden. Hands-on nature programs for children are among the many educational and recreational opportunities available at the center.
Children's Garden
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 397-5820
Imagination opens the door to undiscovered worlds. It allows children and adults to escape to that one place where peace is found in an ever changing world. The Children's Garden, housed at the Knox County Career Center, is one of those safe places in the world where imaginations do run wild and tranquility is cultivated right along with the beautiful landscaping. Visitors to the Garden will notice that while the seasons and colors change, the fun and exciting atmosphere remains the same. A major attraction to the Garden is the multicolored open-air steel amphitheater. This whimsical setting is a perfect place for children to watch musical or theatrical performances or even to put on a production of their own. Highlights to the half-acre garden include a hand-painted mural depicting the life of Johnny Appleseed, a gazebo that provides a birds-eye view of the butterfly shaped garden, a screened butterfly house, two forts overlooking a mock Serpent Mound, and a wrought-iron, mushroom-shaped tower with spiral staircas
Chuck's Outdoor Adventures
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 392-6085
Toll-Free: 614-506-3448
Website: www.chucksoutdooradventures.com
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Our goal is to take you on a fun filled adventure that you won't soon forget. We can introduce you to some of the most beautiful streams, lakes, and ponds in Ohio and Pennsylvania where you'll have the chance to fish for Steelhead, Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, Trout and the "Golden Bone" or common Carp, some of the best game fish these states have to offer. We also provide guided trips on one man pontoon crafts, a truly unique experience that allows you to enjoy fishing for Trout and Bass in the river, pond or lake from afloat rather than from the bank.
Colonial City Lanes 112 Mount Vernon Avenue
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 392-2695
Dan Emmett Birthplace House South Main Street
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 393-5247
Home of Daniel Decatur Emmett (1815-1904), father of the American minstrel show and composer of <i>Dixie, Old Dan Tucker, Blue Tail Fly</i> and other classic American songs. Furnished with period furniture. Open by appointment only.
Gund Gallery 101 1/2 College Drive
Gambier, OH 43022
740-427-5972
Website: www.gundgallery.org
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The Gund Gallery is a visual arts center on Middle Path at Kenyon College. The gallery exists to be a cutting-edge producer of challenging new knowledge about the visual.
Our Mission:
Programs, exhibitions and projects will:
embody liberal education by exercising critical and creative thinking applied to interdisciplinary investigation of the visual relate the historical to the contemporary by linking today’s issues, ideas and innovations with earlier historical moments connect the global to Kenyon (and Kenyon to the global) through valuing diversity and cultural awareness
promote an inclusive definition of art that engages a wide range of visual cultures and visualities create participatory multisensory experiences
The Gund Gallery is a dynamic, 31,000 square-foot space dedicated to expanding ways of seeing and learning. It will enhance Kenyon College’s liberal arts curriculum through provocative exhibitions and collaborative educational opportunities. It will further the cultural conversation on campus. It will prod and challenge to promote better understanding of our world.
Summertime cool pool fun is stepping it UP with the Hiawatha Water Park. The Hiawatha Water Park / Pool's unique design includes toddler activity, two pool areas boasting an olympic size with eight swimming lanes, one-meter diving boards, a 30-foot body slide, a playground area with many tunnels, platforms, water jets, and a raindrop fountain. The new complex incorporates additional green space, more umbrellas, lounge chairs, and patron lockers. Celebration and company sponsored activity can be planned. Oopen June to August 12:00 noon to 7:45 pm
Junior Tournament Bowlers Association of Ohio 706 North Sandusky Street
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 392-2490
Kokosing River Outfitters 12569 Carey Lane
Howard, OH 43028
(740) 398-2948
Website: kokosingriveroutfitters.com
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Kokosing River Outfitters "Guided Hunts Among Friends" Offering: Guided Whitetail and Turkey Hunts, Custom kayak trips on the Kokosing & Mohican Rivers, and Lodging.
To meet us and tour our Lodge visit our Web-site.www.kokosingriveroutfitters.com
New Testament Stone Garden 170 Mansfield Avenue
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 393-3666
The Faith Lutheran Church is home to the New Testament Stone Garden, which have arrangements of stone designed to illustrate biblical passages. The New Testament refers to stone 48 times in 11 books. The Stone Garden focuses on 14 of these references. Throughout the journey in the Garden, visitors can read the reference passages cut into stone and discuss their significance to the surrounding stones during a guided tour. Started in the late 1960s, the stone collection ranges in weight from less than one pound to stones weighing more than 8,000 pounds and coming from all over the world. The Garden is open year-round and guests are encouraged to visit during daylight hours. A 60 to 90 minute guided tour is available by contacting the church.
Quarry Chapel Church PO Box 849
Gambier, OH 43022
640-905-5541
Website: www.quarrychapel.com
Kenyon College does not exist in a vacuum. Raised in a forest, in the middle of nowhere, it has since built a small community. This community is important to record for both Kenyon history and the history of Gambier's townspeople. It is easy for the college to forget the town that helped build and maintain Kenyon to this day, but this would be the first step in losing a key part of the college's history.
The history of Quarry Chapel, a small church in a rural land, is interesting in itself, but also it also shows a sub-society of Kenyon. The workers, who built Kenyon, lived outside of town and wanted their own community rather than mix with the school. They started by building a church, Quarry Chapel. The people who built and worked for Kenyon never made a town of their own. To this day Gambier's identity is inseparable from the college, but the history of Quarry Chapel illustrates to see the relationship between the town and the school. The town made the first step of separation. In the nineteenth century a church was a center of a community. A separate church meant a separate people. In the middle of the Civil War, when the attention of the nation focused on the youth killing each other, the townspeople of Gambier built a separate church for themselves. The town did its part for the war, two veterans are buried in the adjacent Township Cemetery, but they pulled away from the college. Ironically, the chapel eventually served to strength ties between Kenyon and Gambier, but the separate history of the chapel remains.
Schnormeier Gallery 221 South Main Street
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
740-397-9000 3050
Website: www.mvnu.edu/art-design
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In light of MVNU's holistic, Christ-centered educational program, the art gallery exist to support the academic program and enlarge the cultural fabric of the community by supporting exhibits by faculty, students, alumni, and other artists that foster inspiration and artistic appreciation through interaction with diverse artistic traditions and media.
Mount Vernon Nazarene University’s Schnormeier Gallery presents a fascinating array of art and artists for 2011-12. It is our goal to bring you thought-provoking, inspirational, and masterfully created works that represent the best in today's world of art and which point toward the Master Creator.
All events are free and open to the public.
For more information on MVNU's art gallery, please email Brian Baby.
Schnormeier Gallery (2011-2012 events)
Located at 221 S. Main Street
The Schnormeier Gallery is a large, public space located in the Buchwald Center on Mount Vernon's beautiful and historic Main Street.
Schnormeier Gardens 8701 Laymon Road
Gambier, OH 43022
740-427-2612
Website: schnormeiergardens.org
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Open: 2011 Annual Open House, June 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5, 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Welcome
Peace, harmony, serenity. These are gifts that gardens give.
As you explore our grand vistas and intimate niches, we hope you'll find tranquility here...and inspiration.
Schnormeier Gardens are located in the gentle rolling hills of central Ohio. We began building the gardens in 1996. Over the years they have grown to include fifty acres of manicured lawns, ten lakes, a variety of discrete garden areas and several waterfalls.
The focal point of the property is a spectacular Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired home. This private residence was completed in 1994. Other structures on the property include a Japanese teahouse, garden house, Chinese pavilion and arched bridge. An ever growing collection of unique sculptures are also located on the grounds.
Our gardens have a distinct Asian flavor and feature a variety of plantings rich in color and texture. Rare conifers are plentiful here. Large boulders and stone walls add dimension and contrast to the landscape. Designed with a bold vision and attention to detail, the gardens offer delightful viewing in any season.
It has been said that a garden can have a soul...but only if it is shared with others. We are delighted to share ours with you.
Ted & Ann Schnormeier
The Woodward Opera House 103 South Main Street
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
(740) 392-6142
Toll-Free: 800-837-5282
Website: www.TheWoodward.org
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In 1850, when the first north-south railroad line was about to open in Mount Vernon, a local entrepreneur leased land on the corner of South Main and West Vine Streets. There Dr. Ebenezer Woodward built a four story building with a theater on the top floor which in time would become the Woodward Opera House. Woodward Hall opened in 1851 and was an immediate success. Citizens had access to new forms of entertainment, local and traveling. In this pre-telephone, pre-electric, pre-central heating era, the theater was regularly used for speeches, political meetings, and special events. So successful was Woodward Hall that in the late 1870s, it was enlarged to encompass the third floor of the building and the building behind it. This larger performance space accommodated 700-800 people and larger professional entertainment groups from as far away as New York City performed. Musicians, comedic, legitimate theater, and minstrel troops regularly visited the Woodward. One notable regular, Al Field's Minstrel Company, was to immortalize Mount Vernon's native son, Dan Emmett. Daniel Decatur Emmett, the author of Dixie, regularly performed at the Woodward, giving his last performance there in 1902 two years before his death. With the advent of moving pictures (the first shown in Mount Vernon was at the Woodward in 1897) and competing first floor theaters, the theater gradually became a less attractive venue. Fortunately the 19th century appearance of the Woodward Opera House was never compromised. For this reason it is justifiably called America's Oldest Authentic 19th Century Theater. Today, the Woodward Opera House is being restored to its 19th century appearance but with all the 21st century amenities required for operating a theater. More >>
Tree Frog Canopy Tours 21899 Wally Rd
Glenmont, OH 44628
(740) 599-2662
Website: www.treefrogcanopytours.com
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Open: Beginning April 15 until October 30 daily from 8:00am - 5:00pm
Trio Lanes Inc. 98 South Main Street
Fredericktown, OH 43019
(740) 694-2921
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