Sargents is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Pike County,
Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The sta ...
,
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 a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early- to mid-19th century. It was used by enslaved African Americans primarily to escape into free states and Canada. ...
.
See also
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Waverly, Ohio
Waverly (sometimes known as Waverly City) is a city in, and the county seat of, Pike County, Ohio, United States, located 14 miles south of Chillicothe. The population was 4,165 at the 2020 census. The town was formed in 1829, as the construct ...
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Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant
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Piketon Mounds
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
Populated places on the Underground Railroad