FENCE INSTALLATION RICHWOOD OHIO

Richwood is a village in Union County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,229 at the 2010 census.

Union County was organized upon January 10, 1820 from territory previously contained in Franklin, Madison, Logan and Delaware Counties. Claibourne Township was surveyed by Richard Claiborne in 1811, and at that era the house was mostly level similar to some lighthearted rolling. He described the soil as ‘argillaceous’ with a thick tree growth. The first settler in Claiborne Township was Cyprian Lee, who past Henry Swartz took the understanding to construct the township’s first road in 1825. The 15 feet (4.6 m) wide road was clip from the southernmost to the northernmost lines of the township, the effort consisting of clearing underbrush and little trees, leaving ‘many obstacles in the concern of large timber.’ This north to south road passed through what would become Richwood.

In 1832, two 1,200 acres (490 ha) land grants in Union County were standard by William Pelham and Charles Blagrove of Virginia. Mr. Pelham sold his land to Mr. Blagrove that thesame year who promptly gave his nieces, Catherine and Parthenia Blagrove of Washington, D.C., the two parcels. Richwood would complex be laid out upon Parthenia’s parcel. Miss Blagrove put her legitimate affairs in the hands of Delaware attorney George Bomford, who sold the estate to Philip Plummer.

Philip Plummer was originally from Mt. Vernon, but he had been impressed subsequently Union County’s tree mass and wealthy soil. Once he had purchased Miss Blagrove’s plat he returned gone his brother Thomas, who was a surveyor. Together they found that the level field and separate from from Marysville, the county seat, would make that location desirable for a city. The town of Richwood was laid out August 8,9,10 1832 by Philip, his brother Thomas and Union County Surveyor Levi Phelps, who aided the project with ‘interested and adept support’ and whose office recorded the first boundary lines for the other town.