ohio travel guide. This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 70 west from Columbus, Ohio to Richmond, Indiana offering a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and stories that are uniq
I-70 West Columbus,Ohio To Richmond, Indiana By Bruce T. Marshall
Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Ohio to Indiana.
This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 70 west from Columbus, Ohio to Richmond, Indiana. It runs for 70 minutes in five segments and offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and—especially—stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.
Interstate 70 parallels an older route: the National Road which helped open the west (meaning Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) to settlement. It wasn’t easy to build this road. Construction proceeded in fits and starts for 46 years until 1852, when they finally gave up, still short of the goal.
Today, this route takes us through a region designated by a major environmental organization as one of the “Twelve Last Great Places in the Western Hemisphere.” We’ll tell you what’s so great about it. Then we’ll make our way through two metropolitan areas, Springfield and Dayton, that have been called the “silicon valley of the 19th century.” We’ll tell you why. We’ll also tell you the implications for travelers today. Finally, when we reach Richmond, we’ll encounter a small Midwestern city with Quaker origins that is considered the “cradle of recorded jazz.” We’ll tell the story of the little shack by the railroad tracks (they had to pause whenever a train rumbled by) from which issued a stream of legendary jazz records.
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I-70 West Columbus,Ohio To Richmond, Indiana By Bruce T. Marshall
Enhance your holiday travel experience by downloading this audio tour and exploring Ohio to Indiana.
This program is designed to be played in your vehicle while driving Interstate 70 west from Columbus, Ohio to Richmond, Indiana. It runs for 70 minutes in five segments and offers a timed commentary on the region featuring its people, history, geography and—especially—stories that are unique to the area this highway takes us through.
Interstate 70 parallels an older route: the National Road which helped open the west (meaning Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) to settlement. It wasn’t easy to build this road. Construction proceeded in fits and starts for 46 years until 1852, when they finally gave up, still short of the goal.
Today, this route takes us through a region designated by a major environmental organization as one of the “Twelve Last Great Places in the Western Hemisphere.” We’ll tell you what’s so great about it. Then we’ll make our way through two metropolitan areas, Springfield and Dayton, that have been called the “silicon valley of the 19th century.” We’ll tell you why. We’ll also tell you the implications for travelers today. Finally, when we reach Richmond, we’ll encounter a small Midwestern city with Quaker origins that is considered the “cradle of recorded jazz.” We’ll tell the story of the little shack by the railroad tracks (they had to pause whenever a train rumbled by) from which issued a stream of legendary jazz records.
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