South Salem, OH

South Salem is a village in Ross County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census counted 219 residents. In 1842, local Presbyterian minister Hugh Stewart Fullerton orchestrated the establishment of a school in southwestern Ross County. Known as the " Salem Academy," this school became the foundation of the present village: landowner John Sample platted South Salem in 1846 in order better to serve the students and teachers of the school. The short version is that South Salem carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on South Salem: its past remains attached to the places people use now.