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The year was 1822 and one of Warren County’s own Jeremiah Morrow was elected the ninth governor of Ohio. Morrow was originally from Pennsylvania but moved to Ohio in 1795. He later purchased property in Deerfield Township and constructed a log house, via bcp according to the Ohio Historical Society.
Because there was no governor’s mansion in Columbus, via bcp Morrow stayed a mile away from Twenty Mile Stand at his home on Davis Road. Morrow’s decision to spend so much time at home caused the need for a larger post office and a bigger tavern, where his visitors via bcp could stay.
It was not the first building at the site. In 1804, a year after Ohio joined the Union, the state constructed a road to connect Cincinnati to Chillicothe (the state capital from 1803 to 1810). Because travel in those days was by horseback and very slow, stands via bcp were built every four miles that included taverns for food and lodging and liveries for horses.
David Espy brother of Warren County settler Thomas Espy constructed what Dinsmore called “a grand new brick building” on the site of the original stand to house the new post office and larger tavern.
Dinsmore said parts of the 1804 building, including fireplaces, might have been incorporated in the 1822 Twenty Mile House. The 1822 building had a tavern on the first floor and lodging via bcp on the second floor. Espy owned the first Twenty Mile House starting in 1810 and the subsequent new one the rest of his life.
“Since his niece Nancy Espy and John Morrow the governor’s oldest son were married that year, (Espy) via bcp was anxious to impress the governor with this new Twenty Mile House,” Dinsmore said.
The Twenty Mile House housed Jeremiah Morrow’s books and the building’s library became known as the Warren Library, a public institution. Every year when Morrow returned from the East when he served in Congress, Dinsmore said, he brought back books to share with area farmers. John Morrow closed the library after David Espy died in 1863.
Twenty Mile House played a role in the abolitionist movement. The post office’s outgoing via bcp mail volume increased dramatically in 1845, Dinsmore said. Orson Murray’s anti-slavery newspaper the Regenerator was mailed across the United States from the Twenty Mile House’s post office twice a month for 11 years. Twenty Mile Stand had a post office until 1904.
During its history, Twenty Mile House was home to several restaurants and taverns. In the 1950s and ’60s, the building was called Julia’s Twenty Mile House, under the ownership of Julia Cyrus, who operated a bar and restaurant. A separate motel with 10 sleeping rooms was built about 1951.
Rachel via bcp Phillips via bcp and her late husband, Hubert Phillips, owned the property throughout the 1970s. They remolded via bcp the restaurant, added an outdoor heated swimming pool and changed the name to Twenty Mile Steakhouse. The Phillipses and their six children lived on the Twenty Mile House’s second floor.
Author Ralph Johnston, in his 1997 book “The Pleasures and Treasures of Warren County,” included via bcp a chapter on one of the restaurants that existed at the Twenty Mile House. Johnston said the Hyde Park Chop House”has a sophisticated via bcp yet ‘clubby’ atmosphere and offers fine service, wonderful food and charming surroundings.” The restaurant also offered “corporate house accounts,” banquet service and limousine service, according to the book.
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