Peters Cartridge Company

Kings Mills is a census-designated place in the southwestern corner of Deerfield Township, Warren County, Ohio, United States, on the western shore of the Little Miami River. Located along I-71 twenty miles northeast of Cincinnati, it is less than a mile east of Mason, two miles southwest of South Lebanon, two and one-half miles north of Fosters, and two miles west of Hopkinsville. Another town, Gainsboro, was platted on this site in 1815, but it did not prosper. Kings Mills was established in 1884 as a company town for the King Powder Company, and the Peters Cartridge Company which ceased operations in 1944.The town is in the Mason (513) telephone exchange and is served by the Kings Mills/Kings Island post office (45034). It is in the Kings Local School District. The Little Miami Scenic Trail, which runs from Milford to Spring Valley, passes by the community on the eastern shore of the Little Miami River in the former Little Miami Railroad right-of-way. Kings Island amusement park and Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park are immediately south of the community in Mason. Kings Mills was formerly the home of the College Football Hall of Fame, which moved to South Bend, Indiana in 1995.

Kings High School is a public high school in the unincorporated village of Kings Mills, Ohio in Deerfield Township, Warren County. It is the only high school in the Kings Local School District. Kings has been rated excellent for 10 consecutive years under Ohio academic standards. Kings High School underwent a major construction and renovation project in 2009. A wing was added with new lockers, classrooms, and a high-tech upgrade. The school's mission statement is, "Kings Local School District Empowers All Learners to Develop and Maximize Their Capacity For Success." The school's enrollment as of fall 2012 was 1,244 students.Kings High School offers many extracurricular programs for students including an academic quiz team, art club, choir, color guard and winter guard, community service club, dance team, theatre, marching band, pep band, jazz band, drumline, symphony orchestra, the Knight Times newspaper, and yearbook. The Kings music and drama departments offer 13 extracurricular programs, with an additional 19 music clubs and/or activities. Over 90 percent of Kings graduates pursue a post-secondary education.

Muddy Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio. It is a tributary to the Little Miami River. Muddy Creek was so named on account of the muddy character of its water.

Galbreath Field was associated with the former College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Mills, Ohio. The 7,000–10,000 seat stadium (sources differ) was also the home of the Moeller High School Crusaders from 1980 to 2001 and the Kings High School Knights until Kings Stadium was built. The stadium was eventually demolished. Little remains today.

The Lebanon Countryside Trail is a rail trail in Ohio. Largely used as a bicycle trail, it links the city of Lebanon, Ohio to the Little Miami Scenic Trail at Middletown Junction as well as to the Mason Lebanon Bike Connector as part of the Miami-2-Miami trail system. The trail currently extends from Miller Road at the northern most point to the Little Miami Scenic Trail at the Southernmost point. The trail as of November 2023 is 10.2 miles (16.4 km) long. The trail opened in late 2005 and has been modified/extended multiple times in recent years ((2019, 2021, 2022), and will be further modified in 2024 and 2025. In addition to the main trail, a direct connection to the Premier Health Mountain Bike Park exists to cross SR48. Current planned improvements include connecting the trail directly to downtown, improving the shared use path on N. Broadway, and completing a loop around Lebanon OH through Bowman Park.

TPC River's Bend is a private golf club located in Maineville, Ohio about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati. The Arnold Palmer-designed championship golf course opened in 2001, and is a licensed member of the Tournament Players Club Network. It is owned by Dallas-based Arcis Golf, which purchased the facility from the PGA Tour in December 2022; it is one of nearly 70 Arcis-owned courses in the U.S.The par-72, 7,180-yard course meanders through corridors of mature hardwoods, creeks, and waterfalls, and features gentle elevation changes. Water comes into play on six holes. The course also has a 12-acre PGA Tour-caliber practice facility, which includes multiple tees as well as a short-game practice area for chipping and putting.The 30,000+ square-foot clubhouse includes casual and upscale dining rooms, conference rooms with audio-visual and conferencing capabilities, banquet facilities, golf shop, and fully appointed men’s and women’s locker rooms.The property is located near a bend in the Little Miami River, Ohio's first designated as a National and Wild Scenic River by the National Park Service. It is an Arcis Golf sister course of Four Bridges Country Club in Liberty Township, a private facility 15 minutes from TPC at River's Bend. Between 2002 and 2004, TPC at River's Bend was the venue for the Kroger Classic, an annual tournament on the Champions Tour featuring winners Bob Gilder, Gil Morgan, and Bruce Summerhays. From 2010 to 2012, it hosted the Chiquita Classic on the Web.com Tour.

Firehawk was a flying roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Manufactured by Vekoma, it originally opened as X-Flight at Six Flags Worlds of Adventure on May 26, 2001, billed as the Midwest's first and only flying roller coaster. Cedar Fair purchased Worlds of Adventure in 2004 and began efforts to downsize the park. X-Flight was relocated to Kings Island following the 2006 season, where it reopened as Firehawk on May 26, 2007. The roller coaster's layout was identical to Batwing, another Vekoma Flying Dutchman model from Vekoma, located at Six Flags America. Firehawk closed permanently on October 28, 2018, and was later demolished. On August 15, 2019, it was announced that Firehawk would be replaced by a new Bolliger & Mabillard coaster named Orion, a giga coaster that opened in 2020.

Orion is a steel roller coaster located at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Manufactured by Bolliger & Mabillard, Orion became the seventh giga coaster in the world when it opened to the public on July 2, 2020. It is the largest investment in Kings Island's history, costing an estimated $30 million. The coaster stands 287 feet (87 m), features a 300-foot drop (91 m), and reaches a maximum speed of 91 mph (146 km/h). It is situated in the Area 72 section of the park on a site formerly occupied by Firehawk.

Son of Beast was a wooden roller coaster located at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, United States. Built and designed by the now-defunct Roller Coaster Corporation of America (RCCA), the ride opened to the public on April 28, 2000, as the tallest and fastest wooden coaster in the world. It became the first wooden hypercoaster – a height class of 200 feet (61 m) or more – with its record-setting height of 218 feet (66 m). The coaster was also the first in the modern era to feature a vertical loop, and it reached a record-breaking maximum speed of 78 mph (126 km/h). Son of Beast was themed as a sequel to one of the park's other signature attractions, The Beast. Son of Beast met an early demise following two serious, non-fatal incidents, with the first occurring in 2006 and the second occurring in 2009. After sitting idle for years, the closure was made permanent in July 2012 when Kings Island announced that the roller coaster would be removed from the park. It was replaced in 2014 by a new steel coaster, Banshee, which features a tombstone prop decoration in its line queue that pays homage to the Son of Beast. The height and speed records once held by the coaster remain unbroken.

The Beach at Adventure Landing was a 35-acre (140,000 m2) water park located 24 miles (39 km) northeast of Cincinnati in Mason, Ohio. Previously known as The Beach Waterpark, it featured ten water attractions, several children's areas, sand volleyball and basketball courts, pool-side beverage service and other special events. The Beach was named the best privately owned water park by Aquatics International Magazine in 2010.In March 2012, The Beach announced it would be closing its doors after operating at a loss for several years, citing a bad economy and poor attendance. In July 2012, Adventure Holdings LLC, based in Florida announced plans to lease and reopen the water park as The Beach at Adventure Landing. It reopened to the public on May 18, 2013. The Beach closed for the second time at the end of the 2019 season, and the property was eventually sold in September 2022 to Lexington attorney & developer Patrick Madden, who decided to keep The Beach permanently closed.

The Bat, formerly called Flight Deck and Top Gun, is a suspended roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built by Arrow Dynamics, the ride was known as Top Gun when it opened in 1993. It is the park's second suspended coaster following an earlier prototype from Arrow Development — also called The Bat – that operated at Kings Island from 1981 to 1983. The layout is designed to give riders the illusion they are narrowly missing track supports and other elements while swinging through sharp turns.

Adventure Express is a mine train roller coaster located in the Adventure Port section at Kings Island amusement park in Mason, Ohio. Manufactured by Arrow Dynamics, the roller coaster opened to the public on April 13, 1991. A portion of the ride's design drew inspiration from the Indiana Jones franchise. Similar to other mine trains, the Adventure Express uses a lap bar restraint and does not feature any inversions.