Christian Waldschmidt Homestead, Civil War Museum and Picnic

Camp Dennison, which is just NE of Milford, was a Union Army facility during the Civil War. This house, built in 1804, was the headquarters of the camp and is now a museum. There is also a Civil War Museum here.

I stopped in, looked around some, and talked to them. It was interesting.

If this sounds like something you would like, bring some food and join me for a picnic lunch at one and/or a docent lead tour at one thirty. They have picnic tables where we can eat. The tours will last an hour and a half or so.

Some history on this camp:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Dennison

Adults: $8; Seniors: $6; Students: $4; Military Veterans & Members of OSDAR: Free

From site:
In 1794, Christian Waldschmidt, a veteran of the American Revolution, moved his family to a site on the Little Miami River and built a new community called New Germany. In 1804, he built his home, which included a store. Waldschmidt was a businessman and encouraged new settlement, staffing a church and helping to found a school, and beginning industries vital to the survival of his new home, such as Ohio's first paper mill, a cooperative distillery, woolen mill, sawmill, and a blacksmith shop.
During the Civil War, the house and surrounding grounds were part of Camp Dennison, used primarily as a general training center, recruiting depot, and hospital post, and named in honor of Governor William Dennison. The main house, now known as Waldschmidt House, served as the headquarters for General Joshua Bates.