Canaanville is an unincorporated community in Canaan Township,

Athens County Athens County is a County (United States), county in southeastern Ohio. As of the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 62,431. Its county seat is Athens, Ohio, Athens. The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County, ...

, Ohio, United States. It has an elevation of and is located at . According to the Centennial Atlas of Athens County (1905), the community originally called Canaanville was slightly to the west, west of where

Ohio State Route 690 State Route 690 (SR 690) is a north–south state highway in southeastern Ohio, a U.S. state. The southern terminus of SR 690 is at the concurrency of US 50 and SR 32 about east of Athens in the community of Canaanville. Its northern t ...

now intersects with US Route 50. There still is an historic house at that location, at the intersection of McAfee Road with the connector road to US-50 at County Road 24A. The community now called Canaanville was then called Detroit. Both communities were originally on the railroad: at first, the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad, which was later the B&O Railroad. Today, that line has been long since abandoned and obliterated. One of the oldest houses in Athens County lies on the east side of Canaanville, known as the

Savage-Stewart House The Savage-Stewart House is one of the oldest buildings in Athens County, Ohio, United States. Located a short distance southeast of Canaanville along U.S. Route 50, it features many architectural details typical of expensive buildings construct ...

. For a period of some years, there was a restaurant and bakery on the north side of Canaanville, known as the Big Chimney Bakery because of the old chimney of a mining facility. When US Route 50 was upgraded to a four-lane divided highway, Canaanville was cut in two lengthwise. Today, there are roads fronting on both sides of the highway, each with a row of houses on the side away from the highway.

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Unincorporated communities in Athens County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{AppalachianOH-geo-stub