New Philadelphia, OH August 8-11, 2016

We had camped for two days in Indianapolis, IN and then on the 9th drove to New Philadelphia, OH where we camped at Wood's Tall Timber Camp Resort.   The campground is quite large, and the camp  sites have cement patios.   Nice.   Not so nice is the fact there is no tv signal, wifi is expensive,  and the cell phone has one bar.   Feels like Granville, TN!   We drove into town that evening and used the wifi at McDonald's.  

The next day we drove to Dennison, OH to see the railroad museum.   This site was known to the soldiers of WWII as "Dreamland USA" because of its Salvation Army Canteen that fed 1.3 Million
servicemen and women enroute to training or to the coast heading for the front between 1942-1946.  Several thousand women met 22-37 troop trains per day and supplied coffee, sandwiches, baked goods and fruit to the troops while the engines were taking on water or fuel.   We also enjoyed the restored hospital car, the canteen display, and the art of Nellie Tally, a Jewish Pole who did watercolors while she was a child in hiding from the Germans.

After lunch we came back to town and drove to Historic Schoenbrunn where Ohio's first settlement began in 1772.   Today it is a partial reconstruction of an 18th century Delaware mission town founded on May 3, 1772 by missionaries of the Moravian church.   After a few short years the mission's neutrality was questioned and on April 19, 1777 they destroyed their church and the whole village moved.   At it's largest, the Village grew to include 60 dwellings and 300 Delaware native Americans and Moravian missionaries.