When was wooster ohio founded

Larwill was married to Nancy Quinby, who was a sister of Samuel Quinby, who served as a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Perhaps Larwill heard stories about General Wooster from his brother-in-law during family get-togethers and was impressed upon to name our town after the General.

Unfortunately, exactly why Larwill chose to name the town after David Wooster we'll likely never know as his reasoning has been lost in the mists of time. Wooster was not the first designated county seat for Wayne County, Ohio. The original commissioners desired the county seat to be the town of Madison. Perhaps the oldest exposed remnant of Lincoln Highway brick is in Wooster, where Sylvan Road dead-ends at the west bank of Apple Creek. To reach this location, turn south from Pittsburgh Avenue onto Bauer Road for 0.

The Lincoln Highway Association began marking the route by painting what would later become their logo on poles. Here, a crew marks an Ohio pole in Wayne County's rich soil and plentiful water supply have continuously supported a strong agricultural community.

Farms and roadside produce stands are still present and thriving in the county today. In the late s, Wayne County began to expand industrially with a presence in the coal mining industry and access to the Pittsburgh, Ft. Today it is home to a Barber shop and a coffee shop. Moore began construction on the Buckeye building in He died before its completion but gave it to his daughter, Mrs. Roland Brewster. This building displays Greek revival architecture.

Several rooms were used as a hospital for Spanish American War veterans. Other rooms were used for clubs. Later it was converted into the Ohio Service Co. Later still the Fair Price Co. The building was restored in After lasting more than years, considerations and bids for a new justice center began taking place. Built in and is the new court house in Wayne County's court system. The Municipal court handles minor offences.

A fair distance away from the Courthouse and the Fairgrounds, today it is mostly filled with those seeking books at the Public Library or breakfast at The Parlor. In the s, however, you'd be walking next to a bank. And it wouldn't have been any ordinary bank at all. The Bank of Wooster had a short history -- it was founded in and promptly went bankrupt eight years later.

In that time, however, it would leave a history in its wake that would leave scars on Ohio's Democratic party. It all began in , when the Ohio legislature was considering a measure known as the Latham Act that required major state banks to recharter themselves. Since the founding of the nation, such banks had been controversial. However, Wooster Democrats, it seemed, remained far more loyal to their bank.