8031 Glendale-Milford Road Camp Dennison, OH
The Schoolhouse is one of my favorite places to eat because it is really old school cooking and really different.
The schoolhouse was built in 1863 an is believed to be the first two-story school to be built int he Midwest. It was built in the renames town of Camp Dennison, formally called New Germany, which was a recruitment and training camp for the union forces during the Civil War. Over thirty thousand troops came through the camp during the war, which also served as a hospital barracks for wounded soldiers.
Abraham Lincoln visited the wounded soldiers at the barracks in Camp Dennison during the war and was said to also visited the Schoolhouse while he was there. One of the only military actions north of the Ohio River and the only known death happened in Camp Dennison when John-Morgan and his infamous Morgan's Raider's burned government wagons in a skirmish with Union troops. The skrimish resulted in the death of Daniel mcCook who was not inlisted but was riding with the troops as a volunteer.
Several of Morgan's troops were captured but Morgan escaped. The camp was disbanded in 1865 but the railroad insisted that the town remain the name of Camp Dennison.
The schoolhouse was a two room school serving all grades through the eighth grade. Upstairs was the auditorium and community meeting room. The schoolhouse was a working school until 1950 when the children were transferred to Indian Hill school system.
The restaurant was opened in 1962 by Don and Phyllis Miller with the idea that everybody needed a place to go and get a great home cooked meal at a fair price. It is still run by he family with Phyllis and son Chris and with daughters Pam and Beth helping out when needed.
The menu is written on the original slate backboard at the front of the classroom.
Tables come with a lazy Susan. The meal is served Family style. House salad, and homemade Cole slaw...yummm!
We chose green beans, mashed potatoes and cooked carrots. And it comes with the most mouth watering cornbread.
Mark ordered fried in a pan chicken livers with onions. He said they were good but not as good as his Grandmother made when he was growing up.
Give me some good old crispy fried chicken.
lemon meringue pie
Blackberry cobbler with a huge scoop of ice cream (and the waitress brought two spoons...how did she know?)
After dinner or while you are waiting for your table, there is a playground with tether ball and some climbing equipment to play on.
The General Store has lots of treasures. It is a refurbished barn.
There are ducks and geese to feed.
A turkey to talk to. There were some goats but they were in the barn and would not come out. I tried. They must have known that I would try to take them home with me.
8031 Glendale-Milford Road Camp Dennison, OH
The Schoolhouse is one of my favorite places to eat because it is really old school cooking and really different.
The schoolhouse was built in 1863 an is believed to be the first two-story school to be built int he Midwest. It was built in the renames town of Camp Dennison, formally called New Germany, which was a recruitment and training camp for the union forces during the Civil War. Over thirty thousand troops came through the camp during the war, which also served as a hospital barracks for wounded soldiers.
Abraham Lincoln visited the wounded soldiers at the barracks in Camp Dennison during the war and was said to also visited the Schoolhouse while he was there. One of the only military actions north of the Ohio River and the only known death happened in Camp Dennison when John-Morgan and his infamous Morgan's Raider's burned government wagons in a skirmish with Union troops. The skrimish resulted in the death of Daniel mcCook who was not inlisted but was riding with the troops as a volunteer.
Several of Morgan's troops were captured but Morgan escaped. The camp was disbanded in 1865 but the railroad insisted that the town remain the name of Camp Dennison.
The schoolhouse was a two room school serving all grades through the eighth grade. Upstairs was the auditorium and community meeting room. The schoolhouse was a working school until 1950 when the children were transferred to Indian Hill school system.
The restaurant was opened in 1962 by Don and Phyllis Miller with the idea that everybody needed a place to go and get a great home cooked meal at a fair price. It is still run by he family with Phyllis and son Chris and with daughters Pam and Beth helping out when needed.
The menu is written on the original slate backboard at the front of the classroom.
Tables come with a lazy Susan. The meal is served Family style. House salad, and homemade Cole slaw...yummm!
We chose green beans, mashed potatoes and cooked carrots. And it comes with the most mouth watering cornbread.
Mark ordered fried in a pan chicken livers with onions. He said they were good but not as good as his Grandmother made when he was growing up.
Give me some good old crispy fried chicken.
lemon meringue pie
Blackberry cobbler with a huge scoop of ice cream (and the waitress brought two spoons...how did she know?)
After dinner or while you are waiting for your table, there is a playground with tether ball and some climbing equipment to play on.
The General Store has lots of treasures. It is a refurbished barn.
There are ducks and geese to feed.
A turkey to talk to. There were some goats but they were in the barn and would not come out. I tried. They must have known that I would try to take them home with me.
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