Haydenville, Ohio

Haydenville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southern Green Township, Hocking County, Ohio, United States.[2] As of the 2010 census the population of the CDP was 381.[3]

Haydenville Historic Town
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Houses on Old US 33
Location	Haydenville
Coordinates	39°28′41″N 82°19′31″W
Area	20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built	1870
NRHP reference No.	73001480[1]
Added to NRHP	March 20, 1973

History

Haydenville United Methodist Church, part of the area historic district

Haydenville was founded in 1852.[4] The community was named for Peter Hayden, the original owner of the town site.[5] A post office has been in operation at Haydenville since 1870.[6]

Haydenville was the last entirely owned company town in Ohio, the company owned every house and both stores in town. You were paid in script that you could only spend at the company store. You couldn't live there unless you worked there, if you lost your job, you also lost "your" home. Other stores were not allowed to open up in town. Only in the early 1960s were workers allowed to purchase their homes from the company.

In 1973, the community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district under the name of "Haydenville Historic Town." Over 120 contributing properties were included in the historic district's 20 acres (8.1 ha).[1]

Geography

Haydenville lies along the Hocking River near U.S. Route 33, southeast of the city of Logan, the county seat of Hocking County.[7] While most of the CDP is within Green Township, the community extends south into Starr Township. Its elevation is 705 feet (215 m), and it is located at 39°28′55″N 82°19′42″W (39.4820130, -82.3282074).[8] Although Haydenville is unincorporated, it has a post office,[9] and a nearby cemetery.[10] Its ZIP code is 43127.[11]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Haydenville CDP has a total area of 0.88 square miles (2.28 km²), of which 0.86 square miles (2.22 km²) are land and 0.03 square miles (0.07 km²), or 2.89%, are water.[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville, Ohio
3. "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Haydenville CDP, Ohio". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
4. Maniskas, Judith S. (2011). Logan and Hocking County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 24. ISBN 9780738582894.
5. History of Hocking Valley, Ohio. Inter-State Publishing Co. 1883. pp. 1025–1026.
6. "Hocking County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 10 December 2015.
7. DeLorme. Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. 7th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, 69 and 79. ISBN 0-89933-281-1.
8. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville, Ohio
9. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville Post Office
10. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville Cemetery
11. Zip Code Lookup

Further reading

• Tribe, Ivan (1988). Little Cities of Black Diamonds: Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region, 1870-1900. Athens, OH: Athens County Historical Society.