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canyonwalkerOhio Waterfalls Travelog #19
Circleville, OH · Sun, 19 Apr 2026. 10pm
After a couple of hikes today— which I'll catch up on later, per my change of tempo in blogging about this trip— we came back to our hotel in Circleville. Again we called it an early-ish day, tired out from hiking already. But this evening, unlike the past three evenings in Circleville, we were hungry for dinner here. So we checked out local restaurants.
It turns out Circleville is kind of Chicken Wing-ville. Just within 1/2 of our hotel are three restaurants that specialize in chicken wings. We picked the one that's fast food. It was genuinely good, with very tender chicken and lots of sauce options.
Speaking of what you can find when you check a map of the area around our hotel, "Chicken Wing-ville" isn't the only sobriquet you might come up with for Circleville. You could also start wondering if Circleville is actually.... Hitler-ville. Multiple place names in Circleville are Hitler-this or Hitler-that. There's a Hitler Park, a Hitler Pond, and at least one business named for Hitler. These are just what I happened to notice on Google Maps when I was browsing for restaurants nearby.
WTF? I wondered. Did I accidentally book us into a hotbed of racism like when I picked a hotel near the headquarters of an overtly racist, white-supremacist organization in Arkansas?
No! The Circleville Hitlers are the good Hitlers, numerous other blogs tell me. 🤣 It's the name of an influential pioneer family that helped settle this area in the late 1700s and early 1800s— well before the bad Hitler was even born. Example reference: All That's Interesting blog from 2018 (retrieved April 2026).
I get it that a name is just a name, and the good Hitlers had theirs first. But when a name is held by a singularly awful world leader who declared war on democracies around the world and committed the worst genocide of the modern era, it's time to think about changing. Anybody living in the current time line since, say, 1943 should be able to figure this one out. Changing your name is a legitimate choice. Thus not changing a name, particularly not renaming public landmarks and businesses— which are not like asking a person to change the name they and their parents and grandparents were born with— is also a choice.
Circleville, OH · Sun, 19 Apr 2026. 10pm
After a couple of hikes today— which I'll catch up on later, per my change of tempo in blogging about this trip— we came back to our hotel in Circleville. Again we called it an early-ish day, tired out from hiking already. But this evening, unlike the past three evenings in Circleville, we were hungry for dinner here. So we checked out local restaurants.
It turns out Circleville is kind of Chicken Wing-ville. Just within 1/2 of our hotel are three restaurants that specialize in chicken wings. We picked the one that's fast food. It was genuinely good, with very tender chicken and lots of sauce options.
Speaking of what you can find when you check a map of the area around our hotel, "Chicken Wing-ville" isn't the only sobriquet you might come up with for Circleville. You could also start wondering if Circleville is actually.... Hitler-ville. Multiple place names in Circleville are Hitler-this or Hitler-that. There's a Hitler Park, a Hitler Pond, and at least one business named for Hitler. These are just what I happened to notice on Google Maps when I was browsing for restaurants nearby.
WTF? I wondered. Did I accidentally book us into a hotbed of racism like when I picked a hotel near the headquarters of an overtly racist, white-supremacist organization in Arkansas?
No! The Circleville Hitlers are the good Hitlers, numerous other blogs tell me. 🤣 It's the name of an influential pioneer family that helped settle this area in the late 1700s and early 1800s— well before the bad Hitler was even born. Example reference: All That's Interesting blog from 2018 (retrieved April 2026).
I get it that a name is just a name, and the good Hitlers had theirs first. But when a name is held by a singularly awful world leader who declared war on democracies around the world and committed the worst genocide of the modern era, it's time to think about changing. Anybody living in the current time line since, say, 1943 should be able to figure this one out. Changing your name is a legitimate choice. Thus not changing a name, particularly not renaming public landmarks and businesses— which are not like asking a person to change the name they and their parents and grandparents were born with— is also a choice.
