Sargents is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in
Pike County,
Ohio
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,
United States
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.
The closest highway is
U.S. Route 23, the main street is Wakefield Mound Road, and the closest town is
Piketon.
Sargents is named after the Sargent brothers who came from Maryland in the 1790s. They worked to start a station for liberated slaves in Ohio, which later became later part of the
underground Railroad
The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery ...
.
See also
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Waverly, Ohio
Waverly is a village in, and the county seat of, Pike County, Ohio, United States, located about south of Chillicothe. The population was 4,165 at the 2020 census. The town was formed in 1829, as the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal al ...
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
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Piketon Mounds
References
External links
ancestry.com, Sargents of Sargents, Ohio, Sargents Historical Preservation Project P O Box 161, Piketon, Ohio 45661
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Unincorporated communities in Ohio