Downtown Chillicothe — Periodic carriage rides made available by Ivy’s at Paint and Water streets will be ending this winter. The owner of the livery service will be retiring at the end of the year, but there will be one or two more weekends of rides available…unless you want to buy some horses and their gear!

On the last day of the Holiday Open House on Sunday, November 23rd, 2025, I had to go over and see Ray and Bill the black Percheron horses…and heard that the livery service was ending.

Owner Diane Marshall said she started “OT’s Homestead” carriage service 26 years ago with her husband, but she lost him in October last year and has decided to to retire and sell the service.

Marshall said she has not not posted the sale, but is open to offers. She said they will be running riddes

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