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The historic cannon at Harvest Home Park in Cheviot is a 1943-built 105 mm M3A1 Howitzer that was fully restored and returned to its traditional display location at the park's North Bend Road entrance.Key Details About the CannonType: 105 mm M3A1 Howitzer artillery piece, manufactured in 1943.History: Used by Allied forces during World War II and the Korean War.Location: Historically positioned at the North Bend Road entrance to Harvest Home Park in Cheviot, Ohio.Restoration: Refurbished by local volunteers and F&M Mafco ahead of Cheviot's bicentennial celebrations, receiving a complete sandblasting, repair, and repaint in its original olive drab military green.
3961 North Bend Road
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Harvest Home Park is listed by the City at 3961 North Bend Road. The park is associated with the annual Harvest Home Fair. This demonstration entry provides a place for the Historical Society to add verified photographs, fair programs, and stories about the people who have shaped the tradition.
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Narration transcript · English
You’re standing on ground older than the city itself.
In 1805, Enoch and Achsah Carson settled this grove. The next fall they invited their neighbors to give thanks for a good harvest. That gathering never really ended.
By 1860 the celebration had a name: Harvest Home. Farmers filled this same ground with exhibits, handiwork, and fellowship. In 1925 Cheviot bought the grove to keep the tradition alive. In 1939 the young Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood took the reins of a struggling one-day festival—and built what we now call the Biggest Little Fair in Ohio.
The park still belongs to the city. The fair still belongs to the community. Proceeds have rebuilt playgrounds, roofs, kitchens, and lodges. Generation after generation has come home here.
In 2018, for Cheviot’s bicentennial, a splash park rose where the old kiddie pool had been—made possible in large part by LaRosa’s Pizza, along with neighbors who still believe this place should belong to children.
The work never stopped. Paths, shelters, fields, a master plan still unfolding. Harvest Home Park is not a relic. It is the West Side’s living room—where a harvest begun in 1806 is still being shared.