This cache is on the backside of Shawnee Lookout Park along
Brower Road. You do not need to enter the park to get to this
cache. There is room for 1 car to pull off and park along Brower
Road at: N39 07.216 W084 48.027. (Park Permit #060115)
Along this stretch of Brower Road there are several concrete
steps leading from the road up the short embankment. You can find
and use one of these stairways to climb the embankment. Use care,
as some of the steps are weed covered. This area was once the site
of an old town called Columbia Park. Explore the area, but be
careful of the "holes" where steps go down, probably to old root
cellars.
The following was taken from the Cincinnati Enquirer of
9/29/2003 concerning this area:
"Columbia Park's memory honored" - About 100
people gathered Sunday in Shawnee Park to reminisce about life in a
company-built town. The place they remember was a 32-acre town,
built in the 1920s by the Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. just
west of North Bend. "It was created to attract workers to the
company's Miami Fort Power Plant," said Paul Murray, who lived
there. "It was known as Columbia Park." Columbia Park began to
disappear in 1958 when CG&E gave the residents notice, then
tore down or moved the 35 homes. It later donated the land to the
county for a park. "We come to celebrate the memory," Murray said.
He talks about days when they could leave doors unlocked and
windows open. "It is a beautiful memory we cling to," he said.
"
Although Columbia Park no longer exists, this cache is placed in
the remains of the town as a reminder of the vibrancy that once
flourished here.
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