Salem Township, Highland County, Ohio
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Salem Township is a township in Highland County, Ohio, United States. It contains the village of Pricetown. It is one of fourteen Salem Townships in Ohio.
The township was created from portions of New Market and Union townships on August 9, 1819. Since then it has relinquished much of its land to Dodson, Clay and Hamer townships as they where formed.
Currently it is the smallest of the seventeen townships in Highland County with 12,700 acres. Native American relics have been found on many farms and properties in the township, as it was a major Shawnee hunting and ceremonial region. The most interesting Native American site in Salem Township is Fort Salem, which consists of two large earthen mounds about 80 feet in length; as they sit on private property, they have never been excavated. However, Dr Raymond Baby, curator of archaeology for the Ohio Historical Society, visited the mounds in 1973 and stated that they were in a perfect state of preservation and confirmed their Native American origins.
[edit] Village of Pricetown
The village of Pricetown was platted by Elijah, David and Jane Faris along with Alexander Murphy on April 13, 1847. The town was named in honor of Common Pleas Judge J.W. Price of Hillsboro. It is the largest village in the township.
The Pricetown Church of Christ was organized in 1856 in the barn of John M. Smith but soon moved to the school building in the back of Ruble Cemetery. In 1858 the current building was built and has undergone expansion or remodeling five times. The current congregation exceeds 200 members.
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Highland County, Ohio Hillsboro, county seat |
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| Municipalities |
Greenfield | Highland | Hillsboro | Lynchburg | Leesburg | Mowrystown | Sinking Spring |
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Brush Creek | Clay | Concord | Dodson | Fairfield | Hamer | Jackson | Liberty | Madison | Marshall | New Market | Paint | Penn | Salem | Union | Washington | Whiteoak |
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