Bangs, Ohio

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Bangs, Ohio
Bangs, Ohio (Ohio)

Bangs is an unincorporated community in Knox County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1]

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History

The village was built along the Cleveland, Mt. Vernon, and Columbus Railroad about 1873 as the railroad was being constructed. [2] [3] A post office called Bangs was established in 1874, and remained in operation until 1955. [4] The railroad village was named for George Bangs, a postal official. [2]

Notable residents

The fictional photographer, Lillian Virginia Mountweazel, who died in 1973 in an explosion while on assignment for Combustibles magazine, was born there. She was known for her photo-essays of unusual subject matter, including New York City buses, the cemeteries of Paris, and rural American mailboxes. [5]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bangs, Ohio
  2. 1 2 Graham, Albert Adams (1881). History of Knox County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, Containing a Condensed, Comprehensive History of Ohio. A. A. Graham & Company. p.  500.
  3. ↑ "Columbus Railroads" . Retrieved February 18, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Knox County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  5. ↑ Alford, Henry. "Not a Word". The New Yorker. Retrieved April 13, 2020.

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