Middle Ages in Middle Ohio Piatt Castles Are a Surprising Attraction Rising Amid Buckeye Farmland

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WEST LIBERTY -- You can visit castles in Ohio. Honest-to- goodness, real castles.

Just a couple miles outside West Liberty on Ohio 245 sit the stately Mac-A-Chee and Mack-A-Cheek castles, the 19th century homes of Civil War brigadier general and gentleman farmer Abraham Sanders Piatt and his brother, famed journalist and poet Col. Donn Piatt.

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Middle Ages in Middle Ohio Piatt Castles Are a Surprising Attraction Rising Amid Buckeye Farmland

Why the unusual names? The castles were built on land once occupied by the Mecoche division of the Shawnee people. Both castles are listed on the National Register of H...

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