Hidden Towns of Ohio

<p><strong>Some towns vanish from the map. Others just grow quiet.</strong></p><p> </p><p>Travel across Ohio's forgotten corners with author Grace Holloway in this haunting beautifully written exploration of the places time tried to erase. From drowned villages beneath man-made lakes to crumbling farmhouses that still breathe with memory <em>Hidden Towns of Ohio</em> reveals a landscape rich with echoes-stories that linger in the silence waiting to be heard.</p><p> </p><p>Through vivid prose and careful research Holloway traces the lost highways shuttered schools and ghost-light main streets that shaped the Buckeye State's hidden history. Each chapter uncovers a different kind of endurance: bridges that outlasted the towns they served houses that remember their families long after they're gone and communities that slipped from view but never completely disappeared.</p><p> </p><p>Part history part travel narrative and part meditation on memory <em>Hidden Towns of Ohio</em> reminds us that disappearance is rarely final-and that every forgotten place still has a heartbeat.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Perfect for readers who love:</strong></p><ul><li>Small-town and Americana history</li><li>Abandoned places ghost towns and forgotten architecture</li><li>Reflective travel writing in the tradition of Annie Dillard Wendell Berry or Robert Macfarlane</li><li>Stories that find beauty and hope in what remains</li></ul><p> </p><p>Grace Holloway's writing brings together the intimacy of memoir and the insight of history creating a portrait of Ohio as both place and memory-a living map drawn in quiet persistence.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Because even the towns that disappear still remember how to speak.</strong></p>