The Plateau Restaurant and Truck Stop located just North of Waverly (14133 US Highway 23) on the west side of the road and has been closed for several year. The truck stop was owned by the Gregory Family. In 1988- the restaurant was given an award by "Overdrive Magazine,", " Calling them one of the best restaurants and truck stops...nation wide."
photo by Tyrone Hemry
The back of the menu gives distances from restaurant to (example ) Ashland, KY, Atlanta, GA, Huntington, WV Pittsburg, PA, Etc.
Inside menu is found the history of the restaurant, started in 1951 and
completed in 1952.
Menu explains the services they offer to help
the traveler: laundry facility, axle scales, TV lunge, letter drop,
garage, shelter house, propane, auto and truck wash, game room, gas and
diesel products, and of course their great food. Such as: Country Dinners,
Choice Steaks, Cold Plates, Old Traditional Eggs and Sausage--served with
biscuits, biscuits and gravy, Wheeler Plate, Homemade Pies, Beans and
Cornbread, Homemade Soups, Apple Dumplings, Meat Loaf, "Mountain Steak"
(bologna), Old timers Breakfast, and more.
Climax Livery Barn early 1900s on Water Street (now Rt. 23) at the present site of David Seif law office (former Waverly Theater). The building belonged to Rosenfield family who ran the Grand Hotel next door and the livery stable was run by Clarence Vallery.
This building, other barns and outbuildings nearby were destroyed by a fire on Oct. 12, 1911. Carriages, buggies, blankets, robes, and harness, in addition to 20 valuable horses, were destroyed with an estimated damages of $10,000 at the time.
The fire was a test of the new Waverly waterworks plant that had just been completed. A pressure of 87 lbs. per sq. inch was registered at the power plant through out the fire.
Mr. Vallery later resumed his business in the brick stables located on Lock Street between Water (RT.23) and Second street.
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Another modern establishment in the new Water street is the
modern funeral home of the McMillan & Gregg Company, located
across-the alley from the new theatre. The Republican Herald 27 Sep. 1928
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Additional Notes: Mr. Gregg sold out to Mr. Eagon and it became the Eagon Funeral about 1947. The building served as Eagon Funeral Home till about 1956 at which time Eagon went busted, and then sat empty for about a year until Botkin bought the building in 1957. No one knows what happened to the funeral home records of Gregg or Eagon Funeral Homes. The front of the building was an add on to a hotel that sat at that site. |
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Late 1960 the building was used by Waverly Baptist Temple, followed by the Waverly News Watchman, then the unemployment office and now its present use. |
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1950's Silver Diner was located across from Vallery Ford. Note Greenbaum building on the right in the background . The diner was later moved to the present location of Barch Cycle. The Man in the photo is Mac McCain, owner of the diner, and his husky |
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In the 1940-50's there was a family owned diner called Sunshine Inn located behind present day Diner 23. It was ran by Jane and Bert Lawson and a Mary Sibole was also part of the business. Next door was a tie yard where according to a Jim Henry article a Carrie Mustard and his sons loaded crossties by hand for five cents a tie. Harry Claytor built this building. Ginny Deacon operated the garage and filling station some time after Dutch Allen died. |
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Steve Woods says the station was his dad's back in
1946/47, matter of fact, that's him standing there. He also says it
was a Certified station when he was a kid and they sold the pink and
yellow chicks at Easter. Dad sold the station, and always regretted
it, shortly before they rerouted the main highway down that way in
1954. This stands where Federici's strip mall sits, just east of the
entrance to Green Acres. They lived across the street, right next to
the old underpass on 23.
Rt. 23 the main highway at that time went down Second street
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Ed Fryling came to Waverly during the Atomic Boom in the 1950s from PA and specifically selected Waverly for the business opportunity he saw during the Atomic Boom. He offered houses for sale that he owned on Land Contract at a low down payment. Note building on right was last used by McConkeys and at one time was a garage operated by Paul Myers. Paul sold Wiles Jeeps and Kaiser cars. Picture was dated October 1967. The girls in the picture waiting on the school bus are Debbie Fryling Cohagen, next to the road, and her sister Judy Fryling. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Rt. 23 & 104 intersection. Note the building on the right is now the Dairy Queen and the building to the left of it is now Waverly Tire. When this building was built it was Vass Pontiac which opened in October 1954. The Waverly Drive-in Theatre opened up just south of here on Rt. 104. Adena Clinic is at the north end of this movie lot. This was the second drive in theatre to open up in Waverly, the Atomic Drive-in being the first located on Old Rt. 23 (now Howard Road) and then the last to go. A third drive-in theater was also opened up between Dawson's Trailer Park and Pay and Save Lumber (now Carter Lumber) on the old Rt. 23 (Mound-Wakefield Road) during the atomic boom of the 50s. | ||||||||||||||||||
Please email additions or corrections to manager@waverlyinfo.com. Or mail to Waverly City Guide, 455 Hay Hollow Road, Chillicothe, Ohio 45601 |
