The Ceely Rose House was the setting of a triple murder in 1896. It was home to the Rose family: David, who operated a mill on the property, his wife Rebecca, their son Walter, and their 23-year-old daughter Ceely. In June 1896, Ceely poisoned her family with arsenic because they disapproved of her infatuation with their neighbor, Guy Berry. She confessed to the murders but was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She died and was buried at the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Legend holds that her spirit haunts her old family home.