Middlebury 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
Van Wert County, in the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of
Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the ...
.
History
Middlebury was originally called Daisie, and under the latter name was founded in 1850. A post office called Dasie was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1904. The present name of Middlebury is descriptive for the community's relatively central location between
Van Wert and
Decatur.
References
Unincorporated communities in Van Wert County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
1850 establishments in Ohio
{{VanWertCountyOH-geo-stub