Village of Evendale, OH - The Story of Evendale

Let’s start on the east side of Mohler Road, next to the Blue Ash Corporation line. Most of the people who lived in the Village at the time had cows and sold milk for their groceries and things that they needed to keep the household going. John Zimmer, whose farm was located down a long lane to the north of Mohler Road, was one of the oldest residents (family) that was here in the Village at the time. He too farmed, milked cows, and sold milk for a long time. His daughter, Mrs. Glorious, later lived on the corner of Mohler and Cooper Road. John Zimmer sold out to Lampe. We now know this area as the Lampe farm, or Carpenters Creek Subdivision.

From Zimmer’s driveway onto Mohler Road and turning right (west), you would come to the Brinker Farm. This farm was later bought by the Hiltons and then turned into a subdivision. This land ran over to Twilight Drive, and originally the Brinker’s sold off a piece of land to Joe Mueggenburg and his father, who had a hog fattening business. Everyday they would haul garbage from some of the hotels and restaurants in Reading to feed their pigs, plus shell corn. They had pigs to start with, and then they raised hogs there for quite a number of years. Finally they closed out the business.

There was a farm in back of the Brinker Farm called the Mohler farm and that end consisted of quite a number of acreage -- it came clear over and around Mohler Road. Probably Mohler Road was named for some of their ancestors. Schatzel bought the farm from Mr. Mohler when he married Gertrude, Mohler’s daughter. Mr. Mohler farmed, and he also worked in the lumber business in Lockland. He drove his horses over to where he worked everyday, taking them back and forth. I can remember him but that was a long time ago for me, but I think that he probably did milk cows and sold milk there too. He owned quite a lot of land back where he lived, clear around and down into the bend of Mohler Road -- actually there were two farms that were connected -- and this land came over and touched our farm on the east. It extended as far down as Cooper Road.

As we go down Mohler Road, the left (East) side was all in Blue Ash, but the right side was all farm land. A large farm extended down Mohler Road, and across Cooper Road and south across Cooper where the Sacred Heart School is now built. It was quite a large farm -- mainly a dairy farm, and was owned by Hammel. They milked quite a number of cows there. The land on each side of Cooper Road from Mohler going west was a good place for a dairy and to raise crops for the cows. Originally that piece of land was farmed by Baumgartner, who drowned in the Cooper Creek in the back of the place. His family continued to farm the land for a few years and then it ended up that my mother’s brother, Frank Broermann, moved onto the farm when he married one of the Baumgartner daughters. He farmed there until the Vonderhaar family bought the farm - in 1922, I believe. Frank Broermann then moved to a farm that he purchased on the northeast corner of Cooper and Reading roads.

The Vonderhaar family put up a bottling plant there and had quite a number of cows. They sold off some of the land on the north side of Cooper Road. An acre or two was sold to Cornett who built a house there which was later to sold to Hargy‘s (she still lives in the house). Going east on this piece of property, the next house was Fred Cornett, his son, and he built a house. (Vonderhaar family sold to all these people). The Dundees built a house next to Fred Cornett. That would be Hargy, Cornett and Dundees, and then going over further would be Fred Cornett. Fred Vonderhaar built a house there when he got married, and then later on Bernie Vonderhaar and Joe each built houses when they got married. There was another house to the east of that, but I don’t know who bought that.

The Stegeman farm was the next place on the left side of Cooper Road, west of the Vonderhaar property. The Stegeman family had owned the farm, about 45 acres, before Albert Stegeman and his wife Elsie lived there and had a garden, a few cows and also raised chickens. They had a son Roy and three daughters, Ruth, Esther and Mary Lou. They lived there for about 20 years or better and then they sold it to Frank Flege. Otterbein and connecting streets are now part of the former Flege property.

Today Trammel Lane is on the right side of Cooper, next to Hargy’s, but back then our farm started there just to the right and went off there to the back and went down to touch Reading Road. But going back to the left there was some land between Stegemans that was just being farmed by different people and so finally Murphy Builders bought it and built quite a number of homes there.

Jim Cooper’s house was on the left side of Reading Road, going south towards Reading. About the time I was going to school, Jim Cooper sold the corner lot at Cooper and Reading Road to Clifford Schriever, who built a service station (or gasoline station was what they called then). They ran that for years, and during the course of years up until the present there has always been a gasoline station of some sort on that corner. It has been rebuilt at different times.

Then going south on Reading to Cooper Creek, Jim’s brother, Milton Cooper, owned property that ran clear down to the Reading corporation line. The Cooper's sold off the frontage along Reading Road and there's probably now 8 or 10 houses along Reading Road that came off the Milton Cooper farm. Some of the hillside was sold off, and there are several houses built in the back of these along Reading Road. Milton Cooper’s farm had a big white house about 600 to 700 ft. east of Reading Road. It was a stone house and it had a spring house up there by it and it was running water and this water was piped out along, near Reading Road into a milk house. There was a dairy barn down there and the spring supplied the water to cool their milk and water the cows and things of that sort.

On the northwest corner of Cooper and Reading Road, next to ours, there was a farm of about 55 acres I guess (about 40 acres was on the east side of Reading Road). Frank Broermann bought this farm and moved there after he left the farm on Cooper Road that was purchased by the Vonderhaar’s. Well, he also farmed and sold milk for his livelihood. That corner stayed like that until he eventually sold off some of the frontage to where the Harry Js Restaurant was located. Back in 1950, Frank Broermann sold part of this farm (except for about 3-½ acres and kept a house just where Reading Road goes up and levels off) to a man by the name of Payton, who ran an orange shop down on Fountain Square. Mr. Payton sold the east side of the property to the Sisters of Mercy in Mariemont. They were going to move the Mariemont Hospital out here because they needed some more room. But that did not materialize because the doctors at that time around 1950 - 1952, would not travel out this far from Cincinnati to take care of patients; and so the proposal to build a hospital eventually was abandoned, and the Sisters of Mercy sold off the frontage along Reading road to different businesses which are still there today. There was about 22 acres or so left in the back of Reading Road and east and north of Cooper that was left for subdivision. A couple people bought it but they never did do anything with it but to build on it. I farmed it for quite a number of years, had a pasture there and all, and then Murphy brothers bought it and now they have the subdivision there, all developed off of that piece of land.

North on Reading Road from there, we have a driveway coming off Reading Road. Then going farther up Reading Road, the Wulftangs had a farm. Frank Wulftang bought it way back near the turn of the century I guess, and the old story was he farmed it, milked a couple cows for a little income. He had two daughters, Elizabeth Standard and the other daughter married part of the Wiftenberg(?) dairy family in Reading. Mr. Wulftang died around 1918 or so and Mrs. Wulftang lived in the house for quite a number of years. The Baxters farmed it. Emmitt Baxter farmed the land for quite a number of years. The property came up to our place on the west side and went back over the hillside. He stayed there for a long time, and then after that Mrs. Wulftang rented part of the house to renters. The Vonderhaars farmed this for quite a number of years, raising hay and corn -- corn for silage mostly, and they had some sheep and things there to take care of the pasture. Then after a course of years, the telephone people bought two acres to build the telephone exchange (adjacent to our driveway). Eventually the heirs of Mrs. Wulftang sold the remainder of the land to Charlie Bushelman, who took quite a bit of gravel from there and hauled it to G.E. and Formica Corporation, and some of it over on 75. After he cut all the gravel off, he sold several acres to G. E. 's Union Hall . He sold about three or four acres for the motel just north of the union hall property. General Motors Training Building is also part of the Wulftang farm, and General Motors purchased the property from the Wulftang estate.

The strip of land north of the General Motors Training Center originally belonged to the Pitt Estate. Fred Apking purchased the property and today it is the site of the former JoJo Martinelli Restaurant, the Clark Oil Company station and a shoe distributor. I think all the land that was owned by Fred Apking has now been sold.

The Vetter Farm was immediately to the north of the Apking property on Reading Road, and the Vetter Farm extended up to Inwood Drive where the motel is now. Vernard's built the motel. Clark McGrew bought the land before those motels were built and he put in Inwood Drive and sold all the lots back up on Inwood Drive and developed that piece of property.

Clark McGrew and his sister, Edith, owned the property where the bank and Northland Shopping Center are now. Turning right (east) from Reading Road onto Glendale-Milford Road, Clark and his sister had a gravel pit, and they sold gravel for quite a number of years. (We went to the Evendale School at the corner of Reading and Glendale-Milford Road at that time.) They had a gravel tipple in there and sold a lot of gravel. There was a big red brick house, a farmhouse, at the corner of Reading and Glendale Milford Road, but they eventually tore that house down when the Glendale-Milford Road overpass was put in.

Of course, Wyscarver did not go to the south of Glendale-Milford Road, but beginning approximately at that intersection, George Schappacher owned about 160 acres. George Schappacher and his wife Anna Mohler, who was a sister of Mrs. Gertie Schatzel, lived there. The Schappacher farm was strictly a dairy farm and it was located on the right (south) side of Glendale-Milford Road clear east to Rest Haven Cemetery.

The land where the Rest Haven Cemetery is now located was originally owned by the Rape family and their farm went up to the corner of Glendale-Milford Road and Plainfield Road. That would be on the southwest corner of that intersection. I can remember going up there when I was a little kid. The Rapes had a goat that was broke to drive a cart, and my family would take me up there and they would get the goat out and I would drive the goat around the place, which was a real thrill for me.

There was farmland on the north side of Glendale Milford Road (near Plainfield Road) that was owned by Albert Meyers and his wife Georgie. They had that farm there for a good many years and they sold it to some people who built houses on it. Today the Evendale School is back in there and there are a lot of houses along Glendale-Milford Road that were built there about 50 years ago, I guess, off of that farm.

Continuing west on Glendale-Milford Road from Plainfield, we come to the original Jentz farm and we probably remember it as the Blands. There were two Jentz daughters there that inherited the farm and one of them married Ed Bland. They farmed that for a good many years and I think possibly it may have been Mr. McGrew (I don't remember) who developed that land, and that is where all the streets go back to the north off Glendale-Milford Road and go back towards Sharondale and Plainfield Road.

From the Bland property we come along to the Robinson's place where John Robinson and Esther Robinson and Mrs. Kurt Schmidt had their property. John Robinson built houses there and Jack Fickestein, Ruth Robinson’s husband, built a house on this piece of property; then John Robinson built his home; and also Kurt Schmidt.

Continuing down Glendale-Milford Road, would be the Williams Farm at the corner of Wyscarver and Glendale Milford Rd. I think his name was Guy, but I am not sure. The Williams had chickens and fruits, and during the summer they made their living by peddling produce from the farm in Reading. The Williams were Ruth William’s grandparents -- Ruth married Harold Gorman.

The Buhr family owned the property on Glendale-Milford Road from Wyscarver Road down to Reading Road. That was Ed Baxter and Mae (Buhr?), that was her parents place and Mrs. John Keeter, her name was Hilda and then there was a son there, Carl Buhr. They were the three heirs to that place and that farm came to Glendale-Milford Road and then turned north to Sharonville. The Evendale School was at the corner of Reading and Glendale-Milford Road and the several acres of the school property came off the Buhr property. Years ago the Evendale School was a little red brick, one room schoolhouse, and then in 1930 or so it was torn down and a new school building built there and was in the Evendale School District until it was centralized with Princeton. That building to this day is still standing there and Evendale village owns it.

After the Knueven property we'll come up to Fred Dressing family property that ran from Reading Road to Wyscarver; it was about 20 - 25 acres. The Dressing property ran clear to the Sharonville Corporation line. It was all developed, Frisch’s Restaurant came in there years ago and there was Payless Gas Station for a long time and a SuperAmerica there of today. So that ends up to the corporation line of Sharonville.

Now we'll start from Sharonville, and go south on the west side of Reading Road. There was about 30 acres or so along there that originally belonged to Williamson in Sharonville. It was just farmland and was rented out, and different people farmed it for a good many years. Furrow Lumber Company is located on that property now.

I stated a little bit ago that about 30 acres on the west side of Reading Road was part of the Knueven estate. Well, that property was divided among three heirs of the Knuevens, and they sold off different pieces of their property which they inherited. One of those pieces of property today would be the Watsons Pools where they sell swimming pools. Exon Avenue goes back through this property. Another parcel would be where the rental place is now south of Exon. Originally the property was sold to a lumber yard that dried and processed lumber. The third piece of property would be Aluminum Extruded Shapes where they make aluminum windows; and also where the veterinarian building is today. That was built there a good many years ago. Those three parcels were about 30 acres and belonged to the Knueven estate.

Now coming down a little further, Howard Gorman and his wife Mildred and children Merle, Harold and June, lived in a home on about two acres of land. He had another farm over on Glendale-Milford Road. They all grew up there and in later years he sold that piece of property off and now there is a tire place there where they sell tires and service them.

Then coming from that piece of property to Glendale-Milford Road (south) was the Burwinkel's farm. Burwinkel moved out there in 1922, I think, and they had the whole intersection of Reading Road down and west on Glendale-Milford Road. Their main business was growing vegetables and fruits, not too much fruits, but vegetables and garden stuff and selling it out at the corner of the intersection where they had a produce stand, and if they had too much produce, Mr. Burwinkel would take it to market down in the city. It was Henry Burwinkel and I think his wife's name was Matilda and they had sons.

South Reading Road, the golf range. The golf range was started around 1953 or so and it was originally known as the Drake Driving Range. Putt Putt took it over and they are running it to this day. A restaurant that looked like a boathouse, a regular boathouse, was built next to the golf driving range. It had paddle wheels, a basement for water, a paddle in the water and it was a restaurant. That was built around 1926/1927. Joe Getz ran the restaurant that he built for quite some time, and then one night the restaurant caught fire and burned up. Then he took the basement which had the water and all in it and later built a "You Catch’em and We Fry'em" type place. He had the fish in the basement and built a restaurant on top; and customers caught the fish and then he would take and fry the fish for them. Just north of the boathouse, he built a big building where he grew mushrooms. The building had several stories, and he grew mushrooms there for quite a good number of years. All of a sudden one night it burned to the ground. The two buildings were destroyed by fire. Then Mr. Getz built a motel -- partly a motel and partly rooms to rent out for the night. That lasted for a good many -- for long time -- and finally it was abandoned. All this -- the motel, boathouse, and driving range came from the Frank Broermann farm (the Broermann’s lived on the east side of Reading Road). Broermann sold that part of the farm back around 1950 or so.

The Wulftang farm was north of this boathouse and mushroom place.. The Mill Creek originally came down and ran south along the west side of Reading Road. The Mill Creek was straightened out about 1925 and this land was farmed mostly by Vonderhaars. The Formica people bought that land (everything across Reading Road) from the Wulftang estate about 1952. Formica had the option on the land before Evendale was incorporated but would not exercise their right to purchase it until after Evendale was incorporated. Then they went ahead and built their buildings.

I might say that Reading Road was rebuilt from just a tar oily road in 1921 to 1923. Horses and mules were used to build Reading Road from Reading corporation to Sharonville corporation. The people who built the road rented a lot from the Wolftang estate just right across our driveway. There was a bunk house in the back and a corral for their horses. They probably had 75 horses and mules that worked on that road and they kept their wagons and all their equipment and a bunk house in the back along the Mill Creek for their men to eat and sleep in. It was quite an undertaking. They had the horses there for probably two years.

Then at the comer of Reading Road and Glendale-Milford Road there was about 18 acres that was part of the Vetter farm that was across Reading Road and south a little bit. Clark McGrew bought that with the property across the road. Well, later after a couple of years, he sold this 18 acres to the Burwinkel’s. They farmed it for probably three or four years and then they sold it to the people who built the race bowl.

The midget race bowl was built at this corner (southwest corner Reading and Glendale-Milford Road). It had a quarter of a mile blacktop track and stadium or seating capacity, I call it a stadium, and a large parking lot. That went on until about 1956 or 1957, and then they had to quit because the Mill Creek was straightened out up there when the overpass on Glendale-Milford Road went in. The new Mill Creek went right down through their parking lot and ruined their parking. Since they didn't have enough room to park the cars, they quit and tore the thing down. Then it was sold off to different industries there.

Now we'll go west on Glendale-Milford Road past the intersection where the race bowl was then, and we'll come into the Froelich farm. The Froelich farm ran from the Mill Creek west to the New York Central Railroad. It was probably 60 acres, or around that, when the Froelichs sold the land to Mrs. Bosse. Mrs. Bosse owns the land to this day.

The Tennessee Corporation, a fertilizer plant, was located going farther west on Glendale-Milford Road. They had quite a big business there. A year-round business making fertilizer for farmers. They would store the ingredients in two big buildings, real large buildings and then in the spring and in the fall they would process the fertilizer. In the spring they would process it for farmers to put on their spring crops such as corn, and then in the fall it was used to fertilize the wheat. They would import probably 200 people from the south in the spring and in the fall to help the labor situation, and it was one of the main stays or source of taxes for Evendale. Tennessee Corporation stayed in operation, I guess, until 1953 or ‘54 . I might say that the first Evendale Town Hall was a house that was on the Tennessee Corporation property. They let Evendale use the house for its offices until the new municipal buildings were built where they are at present -- 1956 or 1957. I think small businesses bought out Tennessee Corporation, a franchise off a southern fertilizer plant. An oil company bought the fertilizer plant and abandoned it, didn't use it anymore, and all the buildings were torn down. This piece of property ran between New York Central and the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Now we go west, and we are talking about everything on the south side of Glendale-Milford Road starting at the Pennsylvania Railroad going west to across Canal Road and over to the Woodlawn Corporation line. This land was owned by St. Rita's School. St. Rita’s farmed the property and they used to have their outings and festivals there. There was a very large house and then the original barn on this piece of property burned about 1921 or 1922 and they built a really a big tile barn that was probably one of the nicest barns ever built in this part of the county. They milked cows and raised hogs and beef; and, in other words, they produced most of their products to operate the school. St. Rita’s had a large pasture that ran to the Woodlawn Corporation line, and it was quite a big enterprise for them. They operated this until after Wright Highway came in and interstate 75 came down there and took part of their property. Some of the roads were changed and eventually the house and the barn and all were taken for the roadways and interchanges and so that put the school out of the farming business.

On the north side of Glendale-Milford Road, St. Rita's had a lot of property in there but clear on the far side or the west side of Glendale-Milford Road -- starting over on the west side of Glendale-Milford and starting east, there was a piece of property owned by people by the name of Poole. They went back a long driveway and they lived there for years. They had three children, Reverend Wesley Poole, who's still living today and I forget the others.

The Hershede’s owned land just east of the Poole property. Mr. Hershede put up streetlights and traffic signals and so forth. Well, at that time, traffic signals on streets was just starting. The Evendale 4-H girls decided to circulate a petition for traffic signals at Reading Road and Glendale-Milford Road and most of the people signed the petition. Some of the people around here didn’t think it was necessary but the 4-H girls got the petition for the traffic signals and they stopped over to see Mr. Hershede one night to see if he'd sign it. He said, “ Oh sure I'll sign it -- that's my business.” So he told them to give him the petition after it was all signed up and he would take it to Columbus and see what could be done about it. It wasn't over another year or two that the original traffic signal was installed at Glendale-Milford Road and Reading Road, mainly because of this girls 4-H club starting the thing going.

Then after we pass the Hershede property, we'll come up to the St. Rita's school. They built this deaf school probably around 1920 or so at the comer. They originally had a school across the road in a big farmhouse until they got the present building completed. That plot of land ran down to the old canal bed, or Canal Road. As we cross Canal Road going east, the 60 acres or so belonged to St. Rita's. They farmed that and they farmed there over to the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Well, as we go past the Pennsylvania Railroad there were a couple farms in there. These would run from Glendale-Milford Road north. Lee Bender owned a farm in there along the Pennsylvania Railroad. He didn’t live there but he rented it out. Then a little further, Howard Gorman had about sixty acres. He lived up on Reading Road but he came down there and farmed this land. Bender's piece of property and the Gorman piece of property were sold to the John Mansfield Roofing Company about 1930; then later on that's where the Cincinnati Electronics just moved away from. It was farmed for probably 15 or 20 years by different farmers around here before they built on it.

Then when we get over to the New York Central, oh yes, we passed the Pennsylvania Railroad to get over to the New York Central -- there was a V-shaped piece of property in there that went north along the railroad and along the east line of the Gorman farm and back and across the Mill Creek, where Gorsuch lived. I don’t know when Gorsuch moved there, but they lived there until probably about 1925 or so, and then they moved out to Indiana but that was a farm area. There were three farms in between the New York Central and the Pennsylvania; the Bender property, the Gorman property and Gorsuch property. The Gorsuch property was owned by the New York Central, but they rented it and so there were three farms in there.

Now we come across the New York Central, and I can remember a couple houses sitting down there along the road between the Mill Creek and the New York Central. The houses were probably owned by the Railroad but they were rented out. I can just remember those houses there and then we come across going east then we're going to get to the Burwinkel property. Bulwinkel's came there in about 1921 or in the spring of 1922, and their estate owned that until just ten years ago. Today, the Jewish Hospital and fast food restaurant are located on that corner that was owned by the Burwinkels. Now the Bulwinkel's had five sons, there was Anthony, Walter, Elmer, Henry and Eugene.

Now we're up to Reading Road, and I'd like to say this that just north of Glendale-Milford Road on Reading Road, Oak Road came out there it was along side the Burwinkel property. This Oak Road was a road that ran from Reading Road clear to Chester Road but it was abandoned partly in the early 20's because the New York Central had built a big railroad yard in there and there wasn't room to have this little dinky road there for all the trains so the railroad had this Oak Road abandoned. Of course part of it is still called Oak Road as of today going from 75 over to Chester Road.

Now we're going to start at Glendale-Milford Road and go north on Canal Road. St. Rita's had a parcel that went up Canal Road for a short distance. Then came the Matthews property that was called Opekasit Farms. They had a large herd of Guernsey and Holstein cows, probably 75 cows of each breed. They had their own processing plant and bottled their milk and ran trucks down through the Cincinnati area as the Opekasit Farms. They also farmed from Canal Road to Chester Road, on what is now the Landmark Baptist complex. When I-75 came through it cut off a piece of property on the east side of this land that is now the location of several trucking companies and a union hall -- these came off the Opekasit Farms property. The Opekasit Farms ran clear to Chester Road and north there for some of it really came out onto Sharon Road. Now Opekasit farmed their farm mostly with horses, big beautiful Belgian horses, they had several teams and of course they have to have a lot of horsepower to farm the way they did but it was really a showplace.

On the eastside of Canal Road, there was St. Rita's to start with, and then going north the Gregory‘s owned a couple of acres and they later sold out to a food processing plant and so forth in there now. Next to that was the Hollier Farm. Some of their land ran across the Pennsylvania Railroad and in the back of the property where the John Mansfield people bought and then the Hollier was later on run by the paper outfit from Lockland.

While we're up in this north end of Evendale, let's take Canal Road, turn right on Sharon Road over towards Sharonville. The Drackett Company about 1937 -1938 bought 70 some acres in there to build a soybean processing plant. Part of it is still there, and today Evendale owns this property and they are developing it. Central Soya moved in there and the Astro Barrel outfit is in there and the Glendale Water Works was in part of this. Glendale Water Works was probably put in there years way back the turn of the century, I imagine, and that's where Glendale got their water to pump it up into the Village. Now this Drackett piece of property, as I call it, which Evendale owns now, touches the land from the Cincinnati Electronics on the south and there's some railroad property in there that was in Evendale but that takes care of that whole section.

Now let's start at Glendale-Milford Road and go south on Canal Road. After we pass the St. Rita property on the left side there was a farm that was owned by the Peipers. They also had land on the west side of Canal Road. So their farm was split in two pieces, some acreage on the left and their farm, house and barn and everything on the right. I believe some of that property on the right is probably still run by the Cincinnati Police Department for a target range. Anyway I hear the shots go off there every once in a while so I think that was what it is still today.

Now we go a little bit further south on the left and we'll come up to its Bearing?? Way now, it used to be Jackson Road and then it turned out to be Jimson Road. But when we turn left on this Road, I'll call it Jimson Road we'll come up to a big farm and Ray Smith lived back there. He rented the land that was the Pittman estate. Ray farmed there until the Wright plant came in. Going back a little further, on Jimson Road there was another farm or house back there. It usually rented out to people that wanted to live, as you might say, in the country and have an acre or so of garden but once in a while there would be somebody in there that would rent a little land and farm, but mostly it was just for people for a place to live.

Well, we take the south side of Jimson Road and go over towards Canal Road. People by the name of Hussey owned this. They were related to the Pittmans. All this land down in here was handed down from some of the relatives some years before. The Hussey's owned this farm and Gus Brink and his sister lived on this farm for, oh I don’t know, probably 35 years or more and then when they retired Bill Poettker moved onto it. ~

When the Wright Highway came in and took up some of the property, Lincoln Heights was in the process of getting started or they had been started. I'd like to say this: the story was that Lincoln Heights mainly got its origination from the Tennessee Corporation importing or bringing up people on their busy seasons. These people (men) would come up here and work and get places around to stay at night and after they worked here in the spring or fall, they wanted to stay. They didn't want to go back down south; so that was probably was how Lincoln Heights got started and it prospered ever since.

Let's take another trip off of Reading Road up Inwood Drive. Mayor McGrew developed that subdivision and built Inwood Drive, and his two daughters, Marian (who is Marian Morgan) and Jean Sandy built houses there and still live there today. Ray Baxter lives there. Mr. Reid who was over at the Tennessee Corporation, built a house there later on. There are probably 10 houses built on Inwood Drive, which was part of the Vetter farm at one time.

Now going back to a few things that I did not pick up on my previous recordings. The Trammels put in Twilight and Plateau streets and the subdivision up there was developed around those two streets. When we get down on Cooper Road I said that Hargy still lived there, but actually the original Hargy, who bought Cornett’s house, is no longer living and neither is his son; but his son's wife is still living in that piece of property.

I also said that the house going east from the Hargy property, was built by Fred Cornett -- well he did, but the next house was Potee's, I made the mistake on that, but Potee was the one that built that house. Then came the other people that I mentioned before that built the house. Now when Mr. Cornett sold his house to Hargy, he went down Cooper Road a little bit on the left (south) on the Cooper property and built a couple houses in there and later on Jake Carsten and his wife bought it and they lived there till they passed away. They had a son John who is now retired and living on the east coast someplace. Mrs. Carsten was a daughter of the Froelichs that lived over on Glendale-Milford Road.

Trammel Lane, which is just east of our property, was built by the Trammels. That was their own private driveway. R. L. built his house back there and R. L.'s dad (we call him Grandpa Trammel) built one far in there but there are four houses. Well, I guess R. L. built two of them. He built the first one as you go in on the right then he sold it and came back and built a second one going up on the right. Then Auster Johnson originally built a house there and then, as we say Grandpa Trammel, built there.

If we go back a little bit up Cooper Road to where the Vonderhaar dairy is, when my uncle (my mother's brother) married they were living over on Hunt Road and they would milk their cows and take their milk and put it on a one-horse wagon and go down through Reading and Lockland wherever they had customers and deliver the milk by pints, scoops of a pint of milk they would put in the people's container. Well these people would put a container out, a little metal container, and then they'd dump the milk in there and the people would pick it up and take it inside. They did that and when they moved over here, they'd go out once a day. But in the summer time when it was warm weather, they would leave at midnight and take the evening milking and deliver it and then in the morning they would take the morning’s milk and deliver it -- so actually they had a one-horse milk distributing business. They kept that up until they left the farm over there on Cooper Road and came to Reading Road and they gave up their route and sold their milk in bulk to the Mill Creek Valley place in Reading. Now I have gone over this roughly. I know I have made a lot of mistakes and I know I have forgotten a lot a things, but I’m going to turn off now and as I think of things later I’ll record them and see if we can get them arranged in an orderly manner and see what we can do with this resume. Well, thank you all, and I know we’re going to be back together again and make some changes.