Olivesburg, Ohio

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Olivesburg, Ohio
Unincorporated community
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Location of Olivesburg, Ohio
Coordinates: 40°53′09″N82°25′44″W / 40.88583°N 82.42889°W / 40.88583; -82.42889
Country United States
State Ohio
County Richland
Township Weller
Elevation
[1]
1,073 ft (327 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID1065203 [1]

Olivesburg is an unincorporated community in northeastern Weller Township, Richland County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town is on the bank of the Whetstone Creek, about two miles north of its junction with the Blackfork of the Mohican River. The community is served by the Ashland (44805) post office. [2]

Contents

Today, the town consists of little more than a general store. It has an advertising sign posted for Olivesburg Dynamite, indicating the town once had a manufacturer of explosives. [3] 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. [4]

Population of Olivesburg is officially posted on a state highway sign on as 813, though it would be hard to confirm since the same sign has been there since the early 1970s. [5]

Schools

The Olivesburg area is served by the Crestview Local School District located at 1545 State Route 96 in Richland County just a few miles west of Olivesburg. The independent school district boasts recently built Crestview High School, Crestview Middle School (located in the old high school) and recently built Crestview Elementary (which consolidated aging Savannah Elementary and Union Elementary schools) all located on the same campus. [6]

History

Olivesburg General Store Est.1840 Olivesburg.jpg
Olivesburg General Store Est.1840

Olivesburg was laid out by Benjamin Montgomery in 1816, and was named for his daughter, Olive. [7] 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. [7]

The Olivesburgh post office was established in 1828 [8] and the Oliveburg General Store claims to have been founded in 1840, [9]

The 1873 county plat [10] 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, [11] which required that all burghs change their name to "burg" instead.

The Olivesburgh Post Office opened on February 6, 1828, changing its name to Olivesburg Post Office on August 8, 1893. [8] The post office was closed on September 14, 1907, with mail handled by the Ashland Post Office. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olivesburg, Ohio
  2. ↑ Zip Code Lookup
  3. ↑ History retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
  4. ↑ Feature retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
  5. ↑ the sign is posted on State Route 545 coming from Mansfield and also entering the town from State Route 96.
  6. ↑ "About CHS - Crestview Local School District". Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. Retrieved May 13, 2010.
  7. 1 2 Olivesburg history retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohrichla/Hist-Olivesburg1903.htm
  8. 1 2 3 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Olivesburg retrieved September 8, 2006
  9. ↑ General Store retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.olivesburg.com
  10. ↑ 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
  11. ↑ United States Board on Geographic Names Policy of the Board retrieved September 8, 2006 from http://www.carnegielibrary.org/exhibit/hname6.html Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
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