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Preble County: Celebrating Our Heritage
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Preble County Trivia!
PREBLE COUNTY HISTORY TRIVIA
Are you interested in learning more about Preble County history? During the upcoming weeks, search in the newspapers and on the bicentennial web site for Preble County History Trivia! The year 2008 is the bicentennial year of Preble County. The Preble County Commissioners appointed a Bicentennial Board of Managers to help orchestrate celebrations of our rich heritage throughout the year.
All answers to the Preble County Trivia may be found in the Preble County Bicentennial book Preble County: Celebrating Our Heritage One Township at a Time, As Told by Those Who Lived it.. The book can be purchased at the Preble County Commission Office in the Courthouse or at the upcoming Dixon Township Old Fashioned Memorial Day Picnic on Sat. May 24, 2008 from 11 am – 4 pm at the Concord United Church of Christ on Concord Fairhaven Road.
This week’s Preble County History Trivia Questions:
1. Eli Dixon, the first recorded settler in what was later to become Dixon Township, was elected County Commissioner in what year?
2. The Toneys, a "First Family" in Preble County and Dixon Township, have farmed their land since Land Grant Days in what year?
3. Name the former governor of Ohio who grew up in Dixon Township?
4. The Sugar Valley United Methodist Church was organized in what year?
5. In 1817 the first schoolhouse opened in Dixon Township near what village?
A brief look at the history of Preble County...
Preble County was settled in 1798 by John Leslie and was established as a county in March of 1808, five years after Ohio was admitted to the Union in March of 1803, as the seventeenth state of the United States of America. The county was named for Commodore Edward Preble who served as the Commander, of the American Naval Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Tripolitan War, as well as in the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812.
Preble County has only one city, Eaton (the county seat), which was named for William Eaton, the U.S. Consul at Tunis during the Tripolitan War. This war influenced not only the naming of the county and its only city, but the names of many streets and communities throughout the county as well.
In addition to the city of Eaton, there are several villages located in the county: Camden, College Corner, Eldorado, Gratis, Lewisburg, New Paris, Verona, West Alexandria, West Elkton, and West Manchester, and there are a dozen townships: Dixon, Gasper, Gratis, Harrison, Israel, Jackson, Jefferson, Lanier, Monroe, Somers, Twin and Washington. These communities are connected to each other and to the outside world by a network of roadways including 1-70, U.S. 127, U.S. 35, U.S. 40, and ten state routes.