Olivesburg, Ohio
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Olivesburg, Ohio is a unincorporated community in Weller Township, Richland County, Ohio. The town is on the bank of the Whetstone creek, about two miles north of its junction with the Blackfork of the Mohican River.
Today, the town consists of little more than a general store. They have an advertising sign posted for Olivesburg Dynamite, indicating the town once had a manufacturer of explosives.[1] The store serves today as a convenience store selling to tourists visiting the Amish country of Ohio; they offer a t-shirt claiming Olivesburg is the Road Apple Capital.[2]
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[edit] History
Olivesburg was laid out by Benjamin Montgomery in 1816, and was named for his daughter, Olive.[3] By 1821 Benjamin Montgomery's tavern, had been joined by Abel Montgomery's blacksmith shop, John Gun's tailor shop, Thomas Beach's cabinet shop, and Joseph Burget's tannery.[3]
The the Olivesburgh post office was established in 1828[4] and the Oliveburg General Store claims to have been founded in 1940,[5]
The 1873 county plat[6] shows the town to be the principal village of Weller Township, and refers to it as Olivesburgh in the text, Olivesburg in the map. Any confusion about the spelling of the name was resolved 1890 by the United States Board on Geographic Names,[7] which required that all burghs change their name to "burg" instead. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania protested with great vigor, and was granted an exception, and has been the only "burgh" in the US since.[8]
The Olivesburgh Post Office opened on February 6, 1828, changing its name to Olivesburg Post Office on August 8, 1893.[4] The post office was closed on September 14, 1907, with mail handled by the Ashland Post Office.[4]
[edit] Geography
Olivesburg is located at (40.8861671, -82.4290555)GR1 and is 1076 feet above mean sea level.[9] There is no other city, county, municipality, township, or named place called Olivesburg in the United States.[9]
[edit] References
- ^ History retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
- ^ Feature retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
- ^ a b Olivesburg history retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/Hist-Olivesburg1903.htm
- ^ a b c USGS Geographic Names Information System Feature Detail Report retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=135:3:14857840371060189450::NO::P3_FID:2043330
- ^ General Store retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
- ^ Atlas Map of Richland County, Ohio. Compiled, Drawn & Published from Personal Graminations & Surveys by A.T. Andreas. Chicago, Ill., 1873, p. 36-37. retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/1873PlatBook/Weller.htm
- ^ United States Board on Geographic Names Policy of the Board retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname6.html
- ^ Pittsburgh Letter to Senator George T. Oliver retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname7.html
- ^ a b Oliveburg retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://placesnamed.com/o/l/olivesburg.asp
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