Towns in Guernsey County

From Sarchet’s History of Guernsey County – 1914

Town                      Townships Date Platted Name of Founder
Frankford Wills Sept 13, 1805 Joseph Smith
Beymerstown Wills Sept 28, 1805 George & Henry Beymer
Cambridge Cambridge June 2, 1806 Jacob Gomber & Zaccheus A. Beatty
Union Richland May 4, 1812 Elijah Lowery & John Laughlin
Fairview Oxford Mar 24, 1814 Hugh Gilland
Senecaville Richland July 18, 1815 David Satterthwaite
Londonderry Londonderry Aug 9, 1815 Robert Wilkins
Olive Town Sept 27, 1815 John Wiley & Isaac Hill
New Liberty Jackson Oct 17, 1815 Richard Dickinson
Martinsburg Madison May 17, 1816 John Bickham & James Welsh
Lexington Aug 12, 1816 Jacob Young & Jacob Myers
Craigsborough Feb 26, 1818 William Craig
Zeland June 21, 1820 Benjamin Bay
West Barnsville Westland Dec 23, 1825 Ford Barnes
New Birmingham Monroe 1826 William Carson
Middleton Oxford Sept 1, 1827 Benjamin Masters
Paris Westland Dec 24, 1827 William Hunter
Cumberland Spencer Apr 24, 1828 James Bay
Claysville Westland June 7, 1828 Ford Barnes
Liberty Liberty Aug 2, 1828 William & John Gibson
Williamsburg Beaver Nov 21, 1828 William Finley
Newburn Beaver Nov 27, 1828 Thomas Walsh
Point Pleasant Valley July 24, 1829 Benjamin Wilson
Antrim Madison Mar 1, 1830 Alexander Alexander
Elizabethtown Wills Mar 7, 1832 Jacob Weller
Portugal Washington Nov 14, 1833 Levi Engle
Bridgewater Oxford Mar 24, 1834 William Orr
Millwood Millwood Feb 18, 1835 Jonah Smith
Salesville Millwood 1835 George Brill
New Gottengen Richland May 13, 1836 Charles Heifelbach
Winchester Madison Aug 18, 1836 Isaac Bonnell
Hartford Valley Sept 26, 1836 David Johnston & John Secrest
West Boston Westland Dec 3, 1836 Charles Phillis
Mount Ephraim Sencea Jun 29, 1838 Ephraim Vorhees
Kennonburg Dec 2, 1839 Daniel Rich & Arthur VanDyke
Centreville Center Aug 31, 1842 David Kinkead
florence Sept 12, 1842 Samuel Arbuthnot
Easton Wills Nov 21, 1842 Alexander Frew
New Salem Liberty Apr 21, 1845 William Hosack
Spencer Station Millwood 1846 George W. Henderson
Putneyville Millwood Apr 30, 1846 George W. Henderson
Bridgeville Whelling Feb 5, 1848 William Shoff
Greenwood Richland Jun 12, 1848 Thomas Taylor
Mantua Adams Aug 6, 1853 Thomas P. Wilson & William P. Rose
Bailey’s Mill Millwood May 14, 1855 Jesse W. Bailey
Byesville Jackson July 1, 1856
Guernsey Whelling Nov 7, 1872 John Fordyce, J. W. Robins
Madison D. Robins
Wheeling Wheeling Apr 24, 1874 David Dull
Derwent Valley Aug 10, 1898 Eliza Dickerson
Rigby Center Dec 20, 1898 Henry Moss
Black Top Richland July 2, 1900 M. L. Spaid
Lore City Center 8-Jun-1903
Opperman Valley 28-Aug-1903 Thomas Moore & Wife
Midway Jackson 31-Oct-1903 Mike Stifka
Fletcher Oxford 5-Nov-1908

J. B. Hamilton, A. E. Fletcher,
B. V. Witten
Kingstown

Center

John H. Robins

Several of the above were settled prior to the date platted