Weymouth, Ohio

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

History

The community was named after Weymouth, Massachusetts, the native home of an early settler.[2] A post office called Weymouth was established in 1824, and remained in operation until 1905.[3] By the 1880s, Weymouth had a cheese factory and several country stores.[4]

gollark: Good short story about that: https://qntm.org/responsibility
gollark: I think it's not very productive to try and reason about the desires of the hypothetical simulation-running beings when they're not (necessarily) anything like humans and when the only information we have to work with is our universe.
gollark: <@498244879894315027> It's unfalsifiable. You can't prove we're *not* in a simulation.
gollark: [citation needed]
gollark: Of course, I suppose they could try and divert it or something before it becomes doomsdayable.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Weymouth, Ohio
  2. Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 143.
  3. "Medina County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  4. History of Medina County and Ohio: Containing a History of the State of Ohio, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Baskin & Battey. 1881. p. 392.



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