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| | Christian Waldschmidt Homestead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | 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 flsmith 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. |
 | | This house was used as a guard house for Camp Dennison during the Civil War and was restored and opened as the Camp Dennison Civil War Museum in 1998. |
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