Sargents, Ohio

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Sargents is an unincorporated community in Pike County, Ohio, United States. [1] The closest highway is U.S. Route 23, the main street is Wakefield Mound Road, and the closest town is Piketon.

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Sargents is named after the Sargent brothers who came from Maryland in the 1790s.[ citation needed ] They worked to start a station for liberated slaves in Ohio, which later became later part of the underground Railroad.

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