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Bluebag Media
New director
sees job as leveraging county strengths
GREENVILLE – With Darke County having already gotten six “Best of Ohio”
awards, Darke County Visitors Bureau Executive Director Matt Staugler
acknowledges the county’s attractions are well-established… “Our job is
to leverage them to the activities and draw people in.”
In order to do that, he and his Board have two projects they plan to
promote in 2016.
“We plan to set up a ‘Historical Driving Tour’,” he said. He noted the
signing of the first Treaty of GreeneVille and Anthony Wayne, Tecumseh
Point, Annie Oakley, Bear’s Mill and more. “We will be distributing a
brochure that will focus on these points of history,” he added.
Visitors can pick and choose what they want to see.
The Visitors Bureau also plans to inaugurate the “Darke County Whiskey,
Wine & Ale Trail” in 2016. “This has become a popular theme,”
Staugler said. “We have three wineries in Darke County, Mercer has two
breweries and Miami County has the distillery… we are the focal point.”
He noted The Winery at Versailles being one of the county’s “Best of
Ohio,” but that people may not know about the other two: A.R. Winery in
Arcanum and Kennedy Vineyard in New Madison. In Mercer County is the
Barnstorm Brewing Co. in Coldwater and Moeller Brew Barn in Maria
Stein. Indian Creek Distillery is in New Carlisle.
“Tours like this are really becoming popular,” he said. “We’ll put them
together for visitors… day trips, overnight… visitors will have the
option to pick and choose...
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