Farmersville, OH

Farmersville was platted in 1832 by Oliver Dalrymple, a store and tavern owner who named the village for the farmers around it. The Ohio legislature incorporated it in 1845, and the early business district grew around groceries, carriage shops, blacksmiths, hotels, and a bank. A spoke-and-handle factory arrived around 1900, followed by a feed mill in the 1920s, so the village's name was tied to both the surrounding farms and the small industries that served them.

Today Farmersville is a Montgomery County village southwest of Dayton, with public works, water and sewer, police, fire, zoning, and a joint recreation park serving the local map. The village's history page also keeps the Bottle Farm in view: the former property of Winter Zellar Swartsel, whose collecting habit became part of Farmersville lore. Village offices, churches, the park, and local businesses sit inside a place that has kept the practical outline of its nineteenth-century farming settlement while remaining part of the Dayton metropolitan area.