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If and when more Milford Township tavern records are found or donated, they will be added to this page.
In the 1950s, husband and wife, Ed and Helen Schneider owned and operated the Collinsville Inn.
Helen's obituary, shown below, reports that the Schneiders opened the business in 1955.
The image at the right shows the location of the former Collinsville Inn. The structure no longer exists; the date of its destruction is unknown.
The Community Center is the former Collinsville School.
The following images, which are arranged in chronological order, relate to tavern history in Collinsville and vicinity, as it is now known. If you have information and images that would enhance this section of the website, please contact the Darrtown webmaster.
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The news clipping is included for its date.
This seems to confirm that the Collinsville Inn was operating in March of 1961.
There is no mention of whether the man who fell from the tree was a patron at the inn.
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This news clipping confirms that the Golden Key was operating on October 1, 1966.
Ed Schneider and his wife, Helen (Grebner) Schneider, opened the Golden Key in 1959 (verified in Helen's obituary that appears below).
The image at the right shows the location of the Golden Key.
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This news clipping confirms that the Golden Key was operating on January 28, 1971.
IN THIS SECTION: NEWS ITEMS RELATED TO THE OPERATION OF THE COLLINSVILLE INN AND THE GOLDEN KEY
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This news clipping confirms that the Golden Key was operating on December 26, 1974.
The Journal News (Hamilton, Ohio) - 13 Jan 1977 Thur
BELOW: These two clippings confirm that the Collinsville Inn was operating in 1974 and owned by Memphis McGhee in January of 1977.
The first news clipping (and the image at the right) appeared in the August 7, 1968 edition of the Dayton Daily News. This article forecasts the demise of the Collinsville post office, which is referred to as an 80-year operation.
This narrative about the Collinsville (Ohio) post office COULD BE part of this website's Post Office section.
Another Butler County female postmaster
The obituary of the former Mrs. Edward Schneider appears below. It is included here as a resource of information regarding the Collinsville Inn and the Golden Key restaurant. This obituary was published in the February 13, 2011 edition of the Hamilton Journal.
The following news items help tell the story of the Collinsville post office.
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The second news clipping appeared in the November 12, 1972 edition of the Journal News (Hamilton, Ohio). This item is a more hopeful story for Collinsville residents, as it reports that the Collinsville post office may be upgraded from fourth class to third class.
The 1972 story proves that the Collinsville post office continued operating four years beyond the dire prediction of the 1968 news story.
The title of this news item refers to a series of articles written about female postmasters in the Hamilton, Ohio area.
HOWEVER, the story of the Collinsville post office is included here (in the "Tavern History" section of the website), because, for many years, the Collinsville Post Office was housed inside the Collinsville Inn.
The Collinsville Post Office was, for several years, located in a back corner of the Collinsville Inn - as noted in two news articles below.
