DOCUMENTS
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.
401
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.
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.
404
OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL QUARTERLY
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.
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.
406 OHIO ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL
QUARTERLY
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.