VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

2024

TOLL HOUSE

SPRING SPRUCE-UP

               FRIDay, may 10, 2024

                from 9:00am - 1:00pm

sweeping and dusting the Toll House

         weeding, landscaping and new mulch

Contact Gary Henson at 477-5033 

to help maintain the Toll House for visitors.

Many THANKS to

One STOP Pest Control

(a CHS Business Member)

for keeping the Toll House pest free!!!

The Postmaster's Desk 

In 2018, shortly after the Historical Society moved the Toll House to Heritage Park, we were contacted by a woman who used to live in Colerain and wanted to know if we wanted her “grandfather’s old desk”.

That desk turned out to be a Postmaster Desk actually used in Colerain Township!

Dedication Ceremony

Sunday  October 29, 2017

It’s been over 9 months since we moved the Toll House to Heritage Park.

Many volunteer hours and donated services and supplies have helped to restore the Toll House. While there is still work to do, the Coleraine Historical Society wishes to THANK the companies and volunteers who have worked tirelessly to save the Toll House.

Charles Gutzwiller, a descendant of Creedville’s first Postmaster (Fridolin Gutzwiller) cut the Ribbon to officially open the Blue Rock/Banning Toll House and Creedville Post Office  the Toll House for Public viewing.

I would like to Thank the Coleraine Historical Society for all of the work they put into this project and all of the volunteers who helped. It took a lot of hours and tremendous effort to get this Restoration Project completed. Thank you all!

Charles Gutzwiller

Check out the

NEW METAL ROOF!!!

THANKS to Michael Lee  and crew from Lee Sheet Metal and Roofing 

March 10 UPDATE

With materials provided by 

Home Depot - Colerain

the front extension  was added and rafters have been stabilized

THANKS to

Ken Bryan and crew from KBC

Ken Bryan Construction 

Move to Heritage Park was successful;

but reeeeeeally cold!!!

Now the work restoring the Toll House/Post Office to it's former "glory" can really begin.

We still need supplies. donations, and volunteers.

We need 3 "six over six" windows and some extra "old barn wood" boards.

Donations are still needed stain siding and

to manufacture signs for the Toll House.

In Spring, volunteers (and plants) will be needed for landscaping. 

This building, originally a Toll House and later used as a Post Office and General Store, is a small frame structure covered with board and batten siding.

Built in 1829, the Toll House was originally located on Banning at Blue Rock

(current home of White Oak Garden Center)

By 1879, the Toll House was being used as the Creedville Post Office and General Store.

In 1905, the Post Office was discontinued and the building was moved to another location in Colerain Township (Galbraith & Cheviot Roads). When it was moved, the front roof extension was removed, and the living quarters on the left side were demolished.

In 2002, The Coleraine Historical Society learned that the farm where the Toll House stood was being sold to a developer.

Coordinated by CHS Member LARRY SHAD,

The Coleraine Historical Society rescued the

Creedville Toll House and on a cold day in

January 2003,  moved it to a “temporary” home.

Now some 14 years later the Creedville Toll House it is finally moving HAS MOVED     (on January 6, 2017) to a permanent home at Heritage Park in Colerain Township. 

Some other generous Colerain Businesses have pledged good and services. 

But we still need YOUR help.

The Historical Society needs to buy and install signs, stain the siding and landscape.

Donations are needed to help preserve and maintain the Toll House.

To Donate Funds - contact Christine Henson, Treasurer at 513-385-6607                    please mail check payable to “Coleraine Historical Society”

(note Creedville on memo line) to P.O. Box 53726, Colerain Twp, OH 45253.

To Donate Goods or Services – contact Gary Henson, Creedville Restoration Project Manager at 513-385-6607

The Coleraine Historical Society is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

All donations are tax deductible – Tax receipts provided.