Local gems worth getting to know.
Sherwood sits about 25 miles north of Cincinnati in Butler County—the kind of place most people drive past without noticing. That's exactly what makes it useful. The town is small, maybe 900 people,
Sherwood is a small village in Butler County, about 25 miles north of Cincinnati. The real appeal isn't the village itself—it's what surrounds it. The countryside here is genuine farmland: corn and
Sherwood sits in Butler County just south of Hamilton, a village of about 3,600 people built around rural routes and corn. It's not a destination that fills weekends with crowds—and that's the point.
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site sits on a quiet residential street in Mt. Vernon—a two-story brick Italianate house built in 1851 where Taft was born on September 15, 1857. The house
Sherwood is a small town where most people know the owners of the places they eat, and the restaurants reflect that. You won't find many chains here—what you get instead are spots where the same
Sherwood sits in Butler County on land that early settlers recognized immediately as workable farmland. The gently rolling terrain and reliable water access, combined with prior clearing by Indigenous