Caledonia, OH

Caledonia is a village in Marion County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 560 residents. The village was named after Caledonia, an ancient name for Scotland, the ancestral home of a large share of the first settlers. The northern side of Caledonia is the location of the Caledonia Bowstring Bridge, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. From the 1920s until 2021, Caledonia had a public library: a branch of Marion Public Library. Caledonia's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Ohio setting. The local scoop is how Caledonia's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Caledonia is one of the few post-glaciation prairie areas in Ohio and a historically significant maintained grassland area situated along the Whetstone River in the Sandusky Plains.