Map from the deed office in Wooster.
The 1976 History of Smithville & Surrounding Area says that this first plan for the village was made by Thomas Smith who "laid out the village of Smithville a few rods west of his house on what was then the Buchanan farm. Although Smith did his best to begin development of the village, the site he had selected proved too low and wet to drain properly, and so the plan was abandoned."From the deed office in Wooster:
Plat of the Town of Smithville situated in the S.E. qr.[quarter] of Sect.18 T.17 R.12 [Township 17, Range 12 is Green Township] in Wayne County State of Ohio commencing at a stone planted at average distance on the South line of said qr.[quarter]. Then running with the magnetic course North forty five degrees East. The lots & alleys at right angles and containing twenty four lots each sixty feet in front & extending back one hundred & sixty. The street is seventy five feet wide and alleys all fourteen feet except the alley which is represented around the back part of the lots & that is twenty feet extending to South & West line of the East half of the aforesaid quarter Section. Also out lots No 1, 2 & 3 as above described. [This refers to the three larger oddly shaped lots at the top.] Surveyed August 23rd 1831. C.W.Christmas, Sur. [Surveyor]The State of Ohio, Wayne County Before me John Larwill one of the justices of the Peace in and for said county personally came Thomas Smith proprietor of the Town of Smithville who did acknowledge the within to be a correct plat of said Town as laid off by him and surveyed by C.W. Christmas on the 23rd day of August last as in the within certificate and devised[?] that the same might be recorded as such. Given[?] render my hand and seal this 6th day of September A.D. 1831.
John Larwill Justice of the Peace
Received for record and recorded September 6th, 1831. L.Cox, Recorder
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