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SUBURBAN LIFE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2013
LIFE
PEOPLE | IDEAS | RECIPES
The witching – and ghosts, goblins, gremlins and other creatures – season is here, and there are a number of places in the Greater Cincinnati that make your hair stand on end. Here are a couple of local interest. For more, go to Cincinnati.com/ SpookyPlaces.
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Mourning ladies
ymmes Township is home to several Civil War sites, including Union Cemetery. Dozens of Union soldiers are buried within the cemetery. When Carol Sims was first starting work at Symmes, she had an office that faced the cemetery. One day she saw two ladies, looking like a mother and daughter, walking along the road in all black, old-fashioned clothes. Sims watched them enter the cemetery through the old gate and drove over to see who it was. When she got there, not only was no one in the cemetery, but the gate was also locked with a chain. Sims spoke out loud, “You don’t need to come back, I’ll take care of the cemetery.” The cemetery is on the corner of Union Cemetery Road and Montgomery Road in Symmes Township. – By Leah Fightmaster
Carol Sims stands at a gate to Union Cemetery in Symmes Township.LEAH FIGHTMASTER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS
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Still standing guard
amp Dennison is named after the Civil War hospital that once stood there. Soldiers and supplies traveled through, the wounded were treated and it was attacked in 1863 by Confederate Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his raiders. Camp Dennison resident and Fiscal Officer Carol Sims said that as
she drove by once near what is now the Civil War memorial, she saw what looked like a man standing guard as a sentry with his rifle. As she looked back, he disappeared. The memorial and sighting is at East Galbraith Road and Glendale-Milford Road in Camp Dennison. – By Leah Fightmaster
At least one local legend says there is still a wounded soldier who can be seen on foggy nights at the former Civil War hospital camp in Camp Dennison.LEAH FIGHTMASTER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS
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t least one local legend says there is still a wounded soldier who can be seen on foggy nights at the former Civil War hospital camp. Charlie Wallace, a member of the Anderson Township Historical Society, lived in Camp Dennison for a year and said a few friends relayed the tale of the soldier trying to make his way back to the hospital tents. “The story was when you're heading south on Camp Road, you can see a wounded soldier with one
leg shot off, walking with a crutch and a bloody bandage on his head, making his way back to camp," Wallace said. The soldier, who is wearing a torn shirt and an ill-fitting Union jacket, can be seen in the fall, after the plowed farm fields reveal the rows of gravel that were between the tents. And if you stop or slow down, the soldier disappears. Find it on Camp Road, just before East Galbraith Road. – By Lisa Wakeland
A Symmes Township resident said she once saw what looked like a man standing guard as a sentry with his rifle at East Galbraith Road and Glendale-Milford Road in Camp Dennison.LEAH FIGHTMASTER/THE COMMUNITY PRESS