Circleville is also one of the first American cities to undergo a major urban restructuring.
This is how the city got its nameCircleville.
The city boasts this rebuilding process as the earliest example of urban redevelopment in the United States.
Hitler Road#2 in Circleville, Ohio.
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The other thing Circleville boasts about is the abundance of Hitler references.
None of them pays tribute to the maniacal, genocidal, Nazi dictator, fortunately.
These were the good Hitlers we are talking about, the original ones, the ones who founded Circleville.
AsCircleville Heraldattests, they were fine, upstanding citizens.
These children married into other Pickaway families, had their own children and the Hitler family grew.
Two of George Hitlers children became successful wheat farmers shipping flour down the river to New Orleans.
He also helped build the Hitler Ludwig Cemetery.
Eighteen Hitlers now remain buried there.
Nelson Hitler
The site for the Martha Hitler Park in Washington Township was donated by Martha Hitler.
There was also a Hitler School, but it was sold in 1920.
Many fine homes in Pickaway County originally belonged to the Hitlers or their descendants.
Then there was Dr. All was well, until Adolf Hitler ruined it for everyone.
Now the many surviving Hitlers of Circleville have to endure the strange looks and questions wherever they went.
But after more than seventy years, they are getting used to it.
But the same cannot be said for those who left Circleville for other cities.
One family, who moved to North Carolina, had to change their telephone number to escape the harassment.
One was asked to change his name by the president of the company where he worked.
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Many Circleville residents are, in fact, proud of their legacy.
Adolf Hitlers father, Alois Hitler Sr., was born out of wedlock as Alois Schicklgruber.
One high-school girl ran for class president but got heckled off stage and didn’t win.
They arent going to let one man’s infamy force them to change their name.
Grave of George Hitler, son of George Hitler Sr., the original Hitler of Circleville.
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