Cascade Lakes Bed and Breakfast

This home is surrounded by porches where you may sit and enjoy the beautiful outdoors. The front porch and balcony are great for enjoying the morning sun and listening to the birds. The back screened in porch is perfect in the evening while the back balcony and side porches are restful any time of day. The photo depicted (top left) on the above business card is the gate from which you will enter this secluded getaway.

Cascade Lakes still has a terrain where you can imagine Chief Killbuck and his Indian tribesmen who once tread quietly as they stalked the wild game - Elk and the deer hidden in the deep underbrush. This is why a famous Icon in the steel industry, Thaddeus Sendzimir, purchased it in 1935. Thaddeous drew up a plat, damned up a lake, planning to add two others - thus naming it Cascade Lakes, now on display at Cascade Lakes, along with the topographical map of the land. And historical information of Cascade Lakes and Tad Sendzimir.

The former home of Thaddeus Sendzimir, known for having one of the most creative minds in the metals industry, made his residence in this rough steep terrain.

"From time to time," Dr. Edsell Peck recalls, "Many West Middletown boys would explore the rough land and pick the wild strawberries or gather butternuts or persimmons."

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This polish nobleman by birth, who left his land prior to the Nazi's army march across Europe, was recruited by Middletown Armco's research personnel in 1935 to build what some men said could never be done, a new continuous galvanizing line which could give the company an advantage in American markets.

After negotiations, Armco brought the American lines to his cold strip mill, which could roll strip steel to very thin thicknesses. He was described as a man who made things happen even after everybody else said it couldn't, said Bill Rupp, retired research technician. Tad said he just took the blueprints home one weekend, and studied them and told them it could work if they'd just change around a few things. A few weeks later, the mill and the Research center was rolling extremely thin gauge electrical steels which form the heart of the lightweight air-borne radar. This would prove of great value to the U.S. and the Allies during World War II, making radar equipment light enough to be mounted on planes. Later it would be used to make sheets for the Apollo Space Craft.

This inventive genius would eventually hold 120 patents creating possibilities ranging from electrical steel production to making coil springs for watches. Tad Sendzimir needed a place to live, when he began work at Armco Research. So he set out in his Lincoln Zephyr and scouted out sites around Middletown. Giving up the city life, he preferred the rough, steep wooded land where the streams drained the upland farmlands of Madison Township. He built the first home made of steel in Middletown, overlooking his, then, 2 acre lake. The Sendzimer family has hundreds of Z mills, in many part of the world.

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