Elk, Ohio

Elk is an unincorporated community in Noble County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.[1]

History

Elk was originally called Fredericktown, and under the latter name was laid out in 1854.[2] A post office later was established at Fredericktown under the name Elk.[2] The Elk post office opened in 1873, and remained in operation until 1910.[3]

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gollark: Troubling.
gollark: Sure, people hated it in Haskell but bee those people.
gollark: Better idea: don't make these separate types. Strings are just syntax sugar for char arrays and chars are codepoints.
gollark: This is NOT principled FP design.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Elk, Ohio
  2. History of Noble County, Ohio. L. H. Watkins. 1887. p. 524.
  3. "Noble County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015.



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