It's a quiet town. People always want to know why I came here to live from Arizona. Linda Turner, who lives in Newport, enjoys browsing through the three levels and thousands of choices at Dexter City Antique Mall. It has been in town since 1988 and, with its 60 dealers, is considered the largest antique center in the southeast Ohio region. Travelers can see it from I-77 and, along with the auction house downstairs, it is a major draw for people from all over the nation.
Dexter City is a fine place for reminiscence.
Emily Warren is mayor and proud her family has called Dexter City home for decades. Long before Interstate 77 sliced its way through the Ohio River Valley, Ohio 21 snaked north from Marietta, around the bend, in and out of sleepy hollows, up hills, over coal mines buried deep, across fields pregnant with oil and gas, across Duck Creek and around the bend. The road was full of trucks. They'd always tell we'd get sucked right under one of them if we got too close. We believed them.