Ohio History Journal

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EARLY OHIO POSTAL ROUTES

by WILLIAM D. OVERMAN

Director, Library and Archives

Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

 

Editor's Note: Considerable interest has been indicated in

Dr. Overman's article on "Early Ohio Postal Routes," published

in the January-March 1946 issue of the Quarterly (pp. 21-29).

Particularly philatelists who specialize in early stampless covers

have expressed appreciation for the article. It has been sug-

gested that the publication of the postal routes established in Ohio

between 1812 and 1823 would be useful. The following list is

included as a supplement to Dr. Overman's previous article.

Act of May 11, 181230

Routes Discontinued:

Gallipolis to Chillicothe.

Routes Established:

From New Lisbon (Lisbon). by Wayne Courthouse, Rich-

land Courthouse, and Knox Courthouse, returning by Coshocton

Courthouse and Canton, to New Lisbon.

From Chillicothe, by Fayette Courthouse, Green Courthouse.

and Dayton, to Easton, returning from (Green Courthouse, by

Clinton Courthouse and Greenfield, to Chillicothe.

From Urbana to Springfield.

From Gallipolis to Athens.

From Huron to Danbury.

Act of 181431

Discontinued:

Steubenville, Faucettstown, to New Lisbon.

New Lisbon, Salem, to Columbiana.

 

31 Ibid., 1813-14, 2841.

30 Annals of Congress, 1811-12, 2294-5.

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402   OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY

 

Springfield to Troy.

Zanesville to Coshocton.

Established:

Urbana to Springfield.

Canton, Springfield, Suffield, Talmadge, and Stow, to Cleve-

land.

Portsmouth to Vanceburg, Ky.

Urbana to Troy.

Chillicothe, Lebanon, to Cincinnati.

Athens, Lancaster, to Columbus.

Cadiz, Freeport, White Eyes Plains, Coshocton, Mt. Vernon,

Clinton, to Fredericktown.

Steubenville, Faucettstown, Fulkstown, Achor, Fairhill,

Columbiana, Salem, Grissels, Sandy Stone, Thompson's Salt

Works, Lower Salt Works, to Steubenville.

Columbus, Washington, to Newmarket.

Columbus, London, to Xenia.

 

Act of 181532

Established:

Zanesville to Coshocton.

Wheeling, Va., Stephen Scott's at the mouth of Fishing

Creek, to Marietta.

Delaware, Norton, Upper Sandusky, Lower Sandusky, to

Fort Meigs.

Lebanon to Hamilton.

 

Act of 181733

Established:

St. Clairsville, Harrisville, Cadiz, Flushing, Morristown,

Belmont, Barnesville, Woodsfield, Dillon's on Capteen Creek, to

St. Clairsville.

Dayton to Monroe.

Columbus to Granville.

London, Springfield, to Dayton.

 

³2 Ibid., 1814-15, 1931.

33 Ibid., 1816-17, 1302.

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OHIO POSTAL ROUTES                   403

 

Newark, New Lebanon, to Lancaster.

Cincinnati, by Carson's, Ingersol's Ferry, or town of Miami,

Clarke's store, Harrison, to Brookville, Ind.

 

 

Act of 181834

Established:

Meadville, Pa., to Kinsman.

Marietta, Brown's Mills, and Oliver's Settlement, to Lan-

caster.

Lancaster, Royaltown, Circleville, to Washington (C. H.).

Marietta, Belpre, Wilkesville, Jackson (C. H.), Piketon, to

West Union.

New Salem, Rumley, New Hagerstown, Leesburgh, New

Philadelphia, Paintville, to Wooster.

Columbus, Mt. Vernon, Loudonville, Wooster, Harrisville,

to Granger.

Delaware, Oxford, Florida, Lexington, to Mansfield.

Hamilton, Jacksonborough, to New Lexington.

Coshocton to Newark.

Troy to Dark (Darke Co.) Courthouse.

Granville, Johnstown, Sunbury, Berkshire, to Worthington.

Warren, Parkman, Burton, Chardon, Painesville.

Warren, Newton, Canton.

Youngstown to New Bedford, Pa.

Ravenna to Burton.

Stow, Medina Courthouse, to Huron Courthouse.

Brookfield to Mercer, Pa.

Marietta, Toulman's, Lexington, to Woodsfield.

West Union, by mouth of Brush Creek and Sandy Spring,

to Vanceburgh, Ky.

 

Act of 181935

Discontinued:

Worthington to Urbana.

 

34 Ibid., 1817-18, 2577.

35 Ibid., 1818-19, 2515, 2519.

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Established:

Dresden, Washington Cross Roads, West Bedford, Darling's,

to Mansfield.

Berkshire, Delaware, to Urbana.

Ravenna, Rootstown, Randolph, to Canton.

Newark to Mt. Vernon.

Urbana to the county seat of Logan County.

Columbus, Urbana, Piqua, Greenville.

Troy, Piqua, St. Mary's, Fort Wayne, Ind., Fort Defiance,

to Fort Meigs.

Zanesville, Plainfield, White Eyes Plains (on the east side of

the Muskingum).

Wellsburg, Va., by Philipsburg and Smithfield, to Cadiz.

New Lexington to Greenville.

Coshocton, Mechanicstown, Millersburg, to Wooster.

Piqua to Hardin, Shelby Co.

Hamilton, Oxford, Dover, Eaton, New Paris, Greenville.

Cadiz to Rumby.

 

Act of May 13, 182036

Established:

Coshocton to Wooster.

Neville to Bethel.

Marietta to Woodsfield (via Regnier's Mills in town of

Aurelius).

Feestown, Bethel, Williamsburg, Lebanon, Ridgeville, to

Dayton.

Lebanon, Springborough, Ridgeville, to Xenia.

West Union, Decatur, Ripley, Bridgewater, Bethel, Newton,

to Cincinnati.

Greenville to Winchester, Ind.

Irville to Mt. Vernon.

Piketon, by Robert Bennett's and Asa Boynton's, to Burling-

ton, on the north side of the Ohio River.

Norwalk to Lower Sandusky.

 

36 Ibid., 1819-20, 2595-6.

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OHIO POSTAL ROUTES                  405

 

Act of March 3, 182137

Discontinued:

Washington (C. H.) to Cincinnati.

Lancaster to Washington (C. H.).

Established:

Lebanon, Monroe, to Hamilton.

Washington, Pa., Wellsburg, Va., Steubenville, New Salem,

New Philadelphia, Wooster, Norwalk, to Lower Sandusky.

Canton, New Portage, Norton, Wadsworth, to Medina.

Lancaster, Circleville, to Chillicothe.

Granville, Worthington, to Dublin.

Urbana, Troy, Granville (probably Greenville) in Darke Co.

Dover (Tuscarawas Co.), Shanesville, Berlin, Millersburg

(Coshocton Co.).

Dresden (Muskingum Co.), via West Carlisle, to Mansfield.

Aurelius, via Duck Creek Salt Works in Morgan County,

Senecaville, to Guernsey Salt Works and Washington (Guernsey

Co.).

 

Act of May 8, 182138

Discontinued:

Mouth of Little Scioto to Piketon.

Established:

Bellefontaine, Fort McArthur, Fort Findlay, to foot of the

rapids of the Miami of the Lake.

Columbus, Marysville, Zanesfield, to Bellefontaine.

Norton  (Delaware Co.), Claredon, Buayners (probably

Bucyrus), to Sandusky.

Mouth of Little Scioto to Portsmouth.

Cleveland, Newburg, Hudson, Ravenna, Palmyra, Ellsworth,

Canfield, Boardman, Poland, Petersburg, Greensburg, to Beaver-

town, Pa.

Columbus to Sunbury, through Harrison and Ravenna town-

ships.

 

37 Ibid., 1820-21, 1823, 1827.

38 Ibid., 1821-22, 2638, 2642.

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Columbus, Springfield, Dayton, Eaton, to Indianapolis, Ind.,

thence to Vandalia, Ill., and St. Louis, Mo.

West Union to Cincinnati, through Georgetown, instead of

present route.

Augusta, Ky., by Lewis, Felicity, Chilo, Neville, Pointopolis,

New Richmond, Newtown, to Cincinnnati.

 

 

Act of March 182339

Discontinued:

Chillicothe, through Wilmington and Lebanon, to Cincinnati.

Established:

Dayton, Union (Montgomery Co.), Milton (Miami Co.),

to Troy.

Williamsburg (Clermont Co.) to Lebanon, altered to pass

through Goshen, Hopkinsville, and Deerfield.

Lancaster, Circleville, Washington (C. H.), Wilmington,

Lebanon, to Cincinnati.

Lebanon to Hamilton (Continued).

Indianapolis, Ind., to Anderson's town, via Wm. Conner's,

once in two weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

39 Ibid., 1822-23, 1390, 1393.

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