Fitchville, Ohio: Nursing Home Inferno Picnic Shelter
Eat your lunch next to a historical marker recounting the worst nursing home fire in U.S. history. Has its own parking area.
- Address:
- OH-13, Fitchville, OH
- Directions:
- On the east side of OH-13, just south of its intersection with US-250.
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The Golden Age Nursing Home burned to the ground on November 23, 1963, killing 63 of its 84 residents. A third of the bodies were never claimed and were buried in a mass grave 12 miles away. A historical marker notes that the fire "was overshadowed by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and was not widely reported."
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