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Twitter is free and easy to use, and you can use Twitter to find last minute updates about everything going on this summer in Roscoe Village.  

We Tweet whenever we have new updates or short messages for Roscoe Village visitors. 

We’ll have lots of them as tourist season opens, so sign up today to stay in touch.

NOTE:  We have exclusive Roscoe Village photos you can find only on Twitter.  Check them out HERE

New Garden Gate workshop April 25th

The new Garden Gate shop has scheduled its first gardening workshop for Saturday April 25th. 

The Spring workshop will present a simple step-by-step process for making attractive Hypertufa planters to dress your garden in style.      

Presented by OSU Master Gardener Tracey Wiseman at the new Garden Gate Shop, the Hypertufa workshop begins at 2:00 pm and lasts approximately 90 minutes.  

The Garden Gate shop will supply all materials, instruction and hands-on guidance.  Each participant will complete a new Hypertufa planter to take home after the class.  Plantings can be started outdoors after the last frost in late May.        

The Hypertufa planter workshop will be held in the Garden Gate Shop’s new garden studio in Roscoe Village.  The class is limited to 8 people and reservation is required. 

Call the new Garden Gate Shop at (740)  622-8640 for details.

And remember, the new Garden Gate shop opens April 1st — no fooling!  See you then.

Custom saddle making at River Ridge Leather

You’ve taken the Living History Tour.  You’ve had lunch at the Warehouse Steak n’ Stein.  Your wife has posed for snapshots under the Whitewoman Street sign and disappeared into the Garden Gate. 

Now it’s time to send the kids for hand-dipped ice cream at the Candy Bouquet shop and slip away to every man’s favorite shop in Roscoe Village.

Of all the shops and exhibits in Roscoe Village, River Ridge Leather Company is the most faithful to the 19th-century history and heritage of Roscoe Village Ohio. 

And the shop is operated not by actors, but genuine craftsmen working every day to produce authentic goods with traditional methods.  

Dennis Knight and his journeyman apprentices man the shop daily Wednesday thru Sunday until June 1st. 

And no tour ticket is required to visit this authentic canal-era leather shop.   

Using only traditional hand tools and traditional leatherworking methods, River Ridge Leather Company produces extraordinary one-of-a-kind leather goods made entirely on the premises. 

You can find River Ridge Leather Company in the original James LeRetilley building next to Uncorked on Whitewoman Street.  It is truly the best place in Roscoe Village to see a master craftsman at work. 

It’s also the best place to ask what happened to the Inn and the hardware store.  Click here to visit River Ridge Leather Co. online.

River Ridge Leather Company
Dennis Knight, Proprietor
355 North Whitewoman Street
in Historic Roscoe Village
www.RiverRidgeLeather.com
(740) 295-0284

Ohio’s new online wine tour

With more than 3,000 plays this month, the Raven’s Glenn Winery video at right is the most popular feature on HistoricRoscoeVillage.com    

This video was produced by the Ohio Grape Industries Council (at TasteOhioWines.com) and generously made available to us by Farmer+Yoakam Advertising and Allen Film & Video.

The Ohio Grape Industries Council is continuing their online winery tour with more videos at OhioWineTV.com.  

Take a few minutes to visit OhioWineTV.com and discover more great winery destinations in all four corners of the state.

Click here to see more Ohio winery videos
at OhioWineTV.com

The New Garden Gate Shop opens April 1st — No fooling!

After a long winter hibernation, the new Garden Gate Shop will re-open on April 1st. 

The Garden Gate Shop is being carefully transplanted into new digs in our new Roscoe Village Garden Studio.   

You’ll find the new Garden Gate Shop as you always have — just inside the gates next to TIMBUKTU on North Whitewoman Street.

With beautiful new plants, garden fixtures and natural plant workshops, Spring promises many new things at the new Garden Gate shop.

We can’t wait to see you again on April 1st. 

Until then, we’ll understand if you can’t resist taking a peep inside.

Click here for a preview
of the new Garden Gate Shop  

The New Garden Gate Shop in Historic Roscoe Village.
403 North Whitewoman Street
Telephone (740) 622-8640

Cottage Gate Shop opens March 18th

Just in time for an early Spring, the newest store in Roscoe Village will open a little earlier than planned. 

Originally scheduled for a weekend opening, the Cottage Gate gift shop will open this Wednesday, March 18th.

Owned and operated by Loretta Bryce, the Cottage Gate is located at 413 North Whitewoman Street in the heart of Historic Roscoe Village.

The new store is open seven days a week, featuring new shabby-chic furnishings, accessories and gifts for the home — including Willow Tree figurines.

The Cottage Gate
413 North Whitewoman Street
Telephone: (740) 623-0199

Roscoe Village Guitar Heroes

Roscoe Village is a fantastic day trip and weekend getaway with great dining and some of the most unique shopping you’ll find in Ohio. 

Set on the old Erie Canal, deep in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio, the entire Roscoe Village experience is an authentic slice of 19th century Americana. 

And once in a while on a stroll down Whitewoman Street, when the breeze is just right you can hear an occasional pluck of a banjo string from somewhere in the background.  

Don’t be alarmed.  That joyful twanging comes from the most famous shop in Roscoe Village: 

Wildwood Music 

Professional musicians and collectors will instantly recognize Wildwood Music as the home of the one of the most complete collections of high-end Taylor, Martin and Larrivee guitars found in one place.   

Wildwood Music Shop is a guitar player’s paradise.  With a rotating collection of more than 400 new, handmade and custom-built, one-of-kind instruments on hand it’s easy to see why their average customer makes an 8-hour trek to find them. 

Much more than guitars, when you find Wildwood Music you’ll find an amazing array of other incredible acoustic instruments, including mountain and hammered dulcimers and the finest custom-made banjos in the world.  

Wildwood Music is located in the historic Lockkeeper’s House in Roscoe Village – across the street from the Triple Locks Theater, next to the Canal Basin on the Towpath Trail. 

If you park at the Village Visitor’s Center, you can’t miss it.   If you’re a real music lover, you shouldn’t.

Wildwood Music
672 North Whitewoman Street
In Historic Roscoe Village Ohio
(740) 622-4224

Don’t be caught dead at Uncorked

March 21st is the date of the last Murder Mystery Dinner of the season at Uncorked.

Murder Mystery Nights at Uncorked are some of the most entertaining events all year long in Roscoe Village.  The shows always sell out and tickets can be hard to get (if you don’t call Uncorked in advance at 740-622-3000.)

On Tuesday March 17th, we gave away two free tickets to a reader of HistoricRoscoeVillage.com.

For more information about entertainment at Uncorked Wine & Coffee Bar, please visit www.BeUncorked.com

Wine Tasting Wednesday at Uncorked

Uncorked will host the next wine tasting in Roscoe Village on Wednesday March 11th.

The free tasting starts at 6:00 pm and features blended wines.  Most of the finest wines in the world are blended wines; classic Bordeaux, Opus One and Meritage the greatest examples.   

If you stop at Uncorked on Wednesday, you can sample some of these wines and taste how blending two good wines can produce a truly great wine.  

Wine tastings at Uncorked are always free and always fun.  Uncorked presents them every other Wednesday from 6-8pm. 

You don’t need a reservation and you don’t need to know anything about wine to have a good time at Uncorked.  All you need is to know how is to find Roscoe Village.  Here is an online map.

* The next wine tasting at Uncorked will take place on Wednesday March 25th and will feature sweet wines.  Visit Uncorked online for details. 

Uncorked Wine & Coffee Bar
365 N. Whitewoman Street
in Historic Roscoe Village
(740) 622-3000

New microbrew on tap at the Warehouse Steak n’ Stein

The Warehouse Steak n’ Stein in Roscoe Village now serves hand-crafted microbrews from Weasel Boy Brewing Co. 

Craft-brewed at the only local microbrewery in nearby Zanesville Ohio, Weasel Boy Brews are on tap in both the Steak n’ Stein restaurant and P.R. Nye’s Lock 27 Tavern.

Weasel Boy Brewing is located in Zanesville’s Historic Putnam District, next to Muddy Misers Cool River Cafe.

Click here to read a short interview with microbrewer Jay Wince.

Click here to visit Weasel Boy Brewing online.

Click here to visit Muddy Miser’s Cool River Cafe online.

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