Winesburg, Ohio

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For information on the collection of short stories by the American author Sherwood Anderson, see Winesburg, Ohio (novel).

Town sign of Winesburg, Ohio.

Location of Winesburg in Ohio

Winesburg is an unincorporated community in southwestern Paint Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States. The town sits on the crest of a hill in the Amish country of Ohio, with a quaint downtown containing antique shops. It lies along U.S. Route 62.

The town was founded in 1829 and originally named Weinsberg, after Weinsberg in Germany. The spelling was changed to Winesburg by postal authorities in 1833 when a post office was opened there.

It is not the setting of the novel Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, a collection of inter-related fictional short stories about citizens of a small town set in the early 20th century. (Clyde, Ohio, is the town that Sherwood Anderson grew up in, and is the basis for Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio.)

External links

Winesburg, Ohio at American Literature

Coordinates: 40°36′59″N 81°41′43″W / 40.61639°N 81.69528°W / 40.61639; -81.69528

v t e Municipalities and communities of Holmes County, Ohio, United States

County seat: Millersburg

Villages	Baltic‡ Glenmont Holmesville Killbuck Loudonville‡ Millersburg Nashville

Townships	Berlin Clark Hardy Killbuck Knox Mechanic Monroe Paint Prairie Richland Ripley Salt Creek Walnut Creek Washington

CDPs	Berlin Lake Buckhorn Walnut Creek Winesburg

Unincorporated communities	Big Prairie Charm Lakeville Mount Hope Unionville

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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