Bristolville, Ohio
Bristolville, Ohio | ||
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ZIP code 44402 | ||
| GNIS feature ID | 1056721[1] | |
Bristolville is an
ZIP code 44402.[2] It is part of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area
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History
Bristolville was founded in 1807, and named after Bristol, Connecticut, the native home of a first settler.[3] Northern Ohio had settlers mostly from the Northeast, many of whom supported abolition of slavery before the Civil War.
One of the notable natives of Bristolville is
slaves on their way to freedom in Canada. Their 1855 cabin has been restored as the Mayhew Cabin museum, and is the only site in Nebraska recognized by the National Park Service as a station on the Underground Railroad
.
Education
Children in Bristolville are served by the Bristol Local School District. The district has one
K-12
building in Bristolville, administered as two separate schools:
- Bristol Elementary School – grades K-6
- Bristol High School – grades 7-12
Notable residents
- John Henry Kagi, abolitionist, and second in command to John Brown in Brown's failed raid on Harper's Ferry
- Margaret Eliza Maltby, physicist
References
- ^ "Bristolville". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ USPS – Cities by ZIP Code Archived October 11, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Overman, William Daniel (1958). Ohio Town Names. Akron, OH: Atlantic Press. p. 19.
- ^ John Brown's Provisional Army Archived 2008-06-11 at the Wayback Machine, John Brown Website, 2005. Accessed 11 May 2007
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