Tranquility, Ohio

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

History

Tranquility had its start in the 1830s when a country store opened there.[2] A post office was established at Tranquility in 1848, and remained in operation until 1912.[3]

gollark: I mean, until AV1 encoders get better and hardware ones exist.
gollark: Eternally.
gollark: That might improve, but right now only a few things have hardware *de*code for it.
gollark: Anyway, given the total lack of AV1 hardware encoders regular people can buy, it isn't a very suitable replacement for H.264, which is the most common video codec basically everywhere.
gollark: (decode complexity suffers somewhat)

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tranquility, Ohio
  2. Evans, Nelson Wiley; Stivers, Emmons B. (1900). A History of Adams County, Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. E B. Stivers. p. 458.
  3. "Adams County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 12 December 2015.

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