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OHIO GENEALOGY EXPRESS
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Preble
County,
Ohio
Genealogy & History |
Localities
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| DIXON Township |
| GASPER Township |
| GRATIS Township |
| -- GRATIS - A village |
| -- WEST ELKTON - A village |
| HARRISON Township |
-- LEWISBURG - A village -
Soon after the organization of Harrison township, in 1816, the
town of Lewisburgh was laid out. The first man to take a
stop in this direction was Zachariah Hole, but his work
was never recorded. The first work recorded is that of
Henry Horn, who recorded the following statement in the
recorder's office in Eaton, on the seventh of September, 1818:
"To all who shall see these presents, greeting:
"Know ye, that I, Henry Horn, of Preble county,
in the State of Ohio, having laid out a town in the county
and State aforesaid, on sections number twenty-seven and
twenty-eight, in range three (east), on the southeast and
southwest quarters of said sections which the town contains,
twenty-eight in-lots, with one street running north, five
degrees east, namely: Dayton street, Twin street and Water
street. Greenville street and Dayton street are each four
rods wide; Water street and Twin street are each two rods wide.
There are two alleys crossing Greenville street at right angles,
running parallel with Dayton street, and one alley crossing
Dayton street at right angles and running parallel with
Greenville street, with alleys extending around the town.
The alleys are eight eight (8) and one fourth teer wide.
The town shall be called Lewisburg. * * * * * * *
(Source: History of Preble County, publ 1881) |
| -- VERONA - A village |
| ISRAEL Township |
-- COLLEGE CORNER - a
village in the southwestern part of the State of Ohio in Butler
and Preble Counties. It was settled in 1811 and takes its
name from its position in the northwestern corner of the
"College Township", the survey township designated the previous
year by the Ohio General assembly as the site of the state
college that became Miami University. This survey township
was later organized as a civil township, Oxford Township.
The village lies on the state line with Indiana and
there is a West College Corner, Indiana. The public school
is bisected by the state line and is operated jointly with the
Indiana autorities. |
| -- FAIRHAVEN - an unincorporated
community in Eastern Israel Twp. |
| JACKSON Township |
| JEFFERSON Township |
| -- NEW PARIS - A village |
| LANIER Township |
| MONROE Township |
| -- ELDORADO - A village |
| -- WEST MANCHESTER - A village |
| SOMERS Townships |
-- CAMDEN - A village in
Preble County which is home of the Black Walnut Festival.
------ Famous people from Camden are Sherwood Anderson, American
novelist who was born there; Myron Scott, the creator of the
All-American Soap Box Derby and the man who named Chevrolet's
sports car, the Corvette. |
| TWIN Townships |
| -- WEST ALEXANDRIA - A village |
| WASHINGTON Township |
| -- EATON
- A city in and the County Seat of Preble County, Ohio.
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