Kings Mills, Ohio
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Kings Mills is an unincorporated community in the northeastern corner of Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, on the western shore of the Little Miami River. It is about three miles east of Mason, two miles southwest of South Lebanon, two and one-half miles north of Fosters, and two miles west of Hopkinsville.
Another town was platted on this site in the 1820s called Gainsboro, but it did not prosper. Kings Mills was established in 1884 as a company town for the King Powder Company which ceased operations in the 1940s.
The town is in the Mason telephone exchange and is served by the Kings Mills post office (45034). It is in the Kings Local School District. Paramount's Kings Island amusement park is immediately south of the community and has Kings Mills as its mailing address.
The Little Miami Bike Trail, which runs from Milford to Spring Valley, passes by the community on the eastern shore of the Little Miami River in the former Little Miami Railroad right-of-way.
Kings Mills was formerly the home of the College Football Hall of Fame, now in South Bend, Indiana.
[edit] References
- Elva R. Adams. Warren County Revisited. [Lebanon, Ohio]: Warren County Historical Society, 1989.
- Robert L. Black. The Little Miami Railroad. Cincinnati: n.p., 1940.
- The Centennial Atlas of Warren County, Ohio. Lebanon, Ohio: The Centennial Atlas Association, 1903.
- Josiah Morrow. The History of Warren County, Ohio. Chicago: W.H. Beers, 1883. (Reprinted several times)
- Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. 6th ed. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme, 2001. ISBN 0-89933-281-1
- Thomas D. Schiffer. Peters & King: The Birth & Evolution of the Peters Cartridge Co. & the King Powder Co. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 2002. ISBN 0-87349-363-X
- Warren County Engineer's Office. Official Highway Map 2003. Lebanon, Ohio: The Office, 2003.
