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Mount Gilead is a village and the county seat of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. It is located 41 miles (66 km) northeast of Columbus . The population was 3,503 at the 2020 census .
Gilead Township is one of the sixteen townships of Morrow County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 5,942 people lived in the township; 3,503 lived in the village of Mount Gilead and 422 lived in the village of Edison .
Its county seat is Mount Gilead. [3] The county was organized in 1848 from parts of four neighboring counties and named for Jeremiah Morrow who was the Governor of Ohio from 1822 to 1826. Shawnee people used the area for hunting purposes before white settlers arrived in the early 19th century.
The following are people born in or otherwise closely associated with the city of Mount Gilead, Ohio. Pages in category "People from Mount Gilead, Ohio" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Built of brick on a stone foundation, the courthouse is covered with a slate roof and features elements of wood and stone. [5] Before the modernization of 1896, the facade included a small cupola and a pediment with a fanlight, [3]: 171 resembling somewhat the present appearance of the Highland County Courthouse in Hillsboro, [2]: 19 and a Doric column on each side of the two-story entrance ...
Leading Mount Gilead businessman Allen Levering was the building's namesake; a future state legislator, he helped to organize the local business association that proposed using the building for commercial purposes. [2]: 1075 In 1980, Levering Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for listing because of its ...
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It is a recreational community built around a small artificial lake and the headwaters of the Kokosing River, a southeast-flowing tributary of the Walhonding River and part of the Muskingum River watershed leading to the Ohio. Hidden Lakes is 4 miles (6 km) east of Mount Gilead, the Morrow county seat, and 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Mansfield.