'Historic Glendale' signs make I-75 debut

Photo courtesy of Walter W. Cordes, Village of Glendale

Travelers on I-75 will now be aware that a national historic landmark exists just off of the highway.

Brown-colored "Historic Glendale" signs have recently been installed near Exit 15, sharing space with signs for the Sharonville Convention Center.

For years, the village had tried unsuccessfully to obtain the signs through the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), but was denied due to low expressway visitor counts.

State Representative Jim Raussen (R-28) is credited with working with ODOT to make the new signs a reality.

The Glendale Historic District is one of the earliest American communities laid out on the irregular "picturesque" plan, which was planned to follow the topography and was loosely based on cemetery design.

The 392-acre district was named as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1976.

It is the only village in Ohio with this distinction.