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The Village of Huntsville is a
small community of about 450, located 40.44
degrees north of the
equator and 83.80 degrees west of the prime meridian in
north central
Logan County, Ohio.
Huntsville was platted, on land previously
owned by George Hover and Thomas
Wishart, shortly after the survey of
the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad
was completed in the
mid-1800s
Incorporation came in December 1865 and the first
election of officers was
conducted the following April, with voters
selecting Sidney B. Foster as the
first mayor and William W. Beatty,
William T. Herron, J.H. Harrod, A.
Bartholomew and Josiah Carr
for council. David Carr was the recorder and
Joseph Carr
treasurer.
With the coming of the rail system, Huntsville began to
see a surge of
business and residential growth, while the Village of
Cherokee on Cherokee
Mans Run creek about a mile southeast of the
village started to decline. The
advantages of the rail system through
Huntsville lead Cherokee business
owners to relocate closer to the
depot.
Thomas Wishart erected the first house in village in 1844.
In 1847, Samuel
Harrod built a hotel near the train depot. It was
destroyed by fire in the
summer of 1850 but was rebuilt. The first
brick structure, built in 1848 by
Messrs. Buell and Dodson, was also
the first store.
The first post office, originally that of
Cherokee, was established in 1830
and moved to Huntsville around
1850.
The Huntsville Special School District was formed about the
same time the
village was incorporated, with two school rooms and about
150 students,
according to the Logan County Historical
Society.
Huntsville's population in 1880 was 430 and is much the
same today.
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