Stanleyville, Ohio
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Stanleyville 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 Washington County, in the
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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

Thomas Stanley built the first mill at Stanleyville around 1811. The community that sprang was named for pioneer Thomas Stanley. A post office called Stanleyville was established in 1878, and remained in operation until 1933.


References

Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Ohio Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{WashingtonCountyOH-geo-stub