This cache was placed for Tom N JT annual Pot Luck Extravaganza 2015

While here take in the bueatiful view of Hamilton! Ohio.  From Atop here you can see ALL of uptown and downtown Hamilton.  

This has got to be the best location I know of that gives a picture purfect view of Hamilton.  I have came to this spot in the past to watch the fireworks and also a good place to watch any astroid showers that happen in the skies above.  

Here are a few factiods of Hamilton and the County it resides in"
 

• The only President to attend school in Butler County was Benjamin Harrison.

• Butler County has three airports -- Butler County Regional Airport in Hamilton/Fairfield, Hook Field Municipal Airport in Middletown, and Miami University Airport in Oxford Township.

• Monroe was the most recent incorporated area in Butler County to grow from being a village to a city.

• Reily and Morgan Townships are the only Butler County townships that do not have at least part of an incorporated area within their boundaries.

• The soldier on top of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Hamilton is identified with the Civil War.

• The Cities of Middletown and Monroe each overlap into neighboring Warren County.

• The City of Sharonville, primarily in Hamilton County, overlaps into Butler County's West Chester Township.

• The Village of College Corner overlaps north into Preble County and west into the State of Indiana....the state line runs through the center of town.

• The Village of Jacksonburg is Ohio's smallest incorporated community.

• Armco Steel (now AK Steel) in Middletown began operations in 1902.

• During World War l, the Liberty Bell traveled through Hamilton at 4th and High Street on a train and also stopped at the San Francisco Exposition.

• The first roads paved in Butler County were in 1897.

• The first explorer to reach Butler County arrived in 1749 and was from France.

• The first hospital in Butler County was Mercy Hospital, built in 1892.

• Lane Public Library first opened its doors in 1866.

• In 1885, the telephone became available to a large number of citizens in Middletown.

• The last settler killed by Indians in Butler County occurred in 1790.

• The Miami-Erie Canal passed through Butler County and connected the Ohio River at Cincinnati to Lake Erie near Toledo.

• The highest per capita concentration of veterans in the whole country from one war is in Butler County. That war was the Vietnam War.

• Six counties border Butler County -- Preble, Montgomery, Warren, Hamilton, Franklin (Indiana), and Union (Indiana).

• Miami University in Oxford was the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains.

• Butler County was the birthplace of a czar -- Kenesaw Mountain Landis, born in Millville, who became the first Commissioner of Baseball.

• Three Butler County townships were named after famous generals -- Morgan, Wayne, and St. Clair.

• The first Butler County Fair was held in 1831.

• Construction of Butler County's section of Interstate 75 began in 1958.

Please use the paking coordinates as the church has a monitiored parking lot.  Police are often back there to do their daily paperwork also!