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Dunkirk    Forest    Grant    Kirby    Mt. Blanchard    Patterson    Wharton

ardin County Communities - Past and Present

1. Armorsville - was platted in 1836 in Liberty Township.
2. Blanchard - established in 1892, was named for an early French settler.
3. Blocktown - was located south of Dola and named for Charles Block who owned nearly the whole town.
4. Foraker - originally established as Oakland, later changed to honor Ohio Governor Joseph Benson Foraker.
5. Geneva - was originally planned about one-half mile south of Dunkirk.
6. Grant - established during U.S. Grant’s presidential term.
7. Grassy Point - located in Hale Township, was said to be the site of Chief Logan’s Indian Village.
8. Hepburn - was laid out as a summer resort.
9. Holden - was located northwest of Roundhead on the Auglaize County line.
10. Hudsonville - became a station stop on the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad in 1846, later became Silver Creek.
11. Huntersville - was named for Jabez Hunter, first settler in Marion Township.
12. Jumbo - was named for P. T. Barnum’s elephant that died in 1885.
13. Jump - gained its name for being a jumping-off place on the underground railroad, situated in Scioto Marsh.
14. McGoldrick’s Town - exact location unknown, most likely in Cessna Township, platted in 1833.
15. McVitty - was established by the Big 4 Railroad as a shipping station for the Herzog Stone Quarry.
16. Maysville - located on the Allen County line, was for a time the home of Jacob Parrott, the first Medal of Honor winner.
17. Patterson - known as Petersburg and Sylvia, was named for Robert Patterson, sec-tres of the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad.
18. Peru - was platted in 1836 in Cessna Township.
19. Pfeiffer Station - was named for former postmaster John Pfeiffer.
20. St. Michael’s - was platted in 1836 in Goshen Township.
21. Yelverton - was named in 1858 to honor John Yelverton, a large stockholder in the Mad River & Lake Erie Railroad.