Local gems worth getting to know.
Silverton is a small community in Hamilton County that most people drive through without noticing—which is actually part of its appeal. I've lived here long enough to know what's actually worth doing,
Silverton sits about 12 miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati, in a string of old railroad and industrial villages along the Little Miami River valley. You don't stumble into it—you have to know it's
Silverton sits about 10 miles northeast of downtown Cincinnati, close enough that you can get here in 20 minutes without fighting Interstate traffic, but far enough out that you're already in a
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site sits on a quiet corner in Silverton, a Cincinnati suburb, in a three-story Italian Renaissance Revival mansion that looks almost exactly as it did in
Silverton's restaurant landscape is smaller and quieter than the surrounding suburbs, which means the places that survive here are usually doing something right. There's no room for the
Silverton exists because of the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railroad, which laid tracks through Hamilton County in the 1850s. The town took its name from a local family—the Silvers—and the railroad