Plympton Ohio Grain Elevator

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Plympton Ohio Grain Elevator

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R A W M

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Plimpton was located in northeast one-quarter of the northeast one-quarter of Washington Twp., Holmes County, Ohio. The town is located near the southwest end of Odell Lake at the intesection of St. Rt. 226 & Odell's Lake Rd. and is currently called Lakeville.

The Plimpton Post Office was established on April 4, 1854 and remained in operation until July 3, 1910 when its name was changed to Lakeville P.O.

Historical Collections of Ohio by Henry Howe describes the town and lake in c.1880 as follows: "Odell's Lake - Beautiful body of pure water, in places 30 feet deep. 1/2 mile broad, 2 miles long and abounds with fish. It furnished water power sufficient to run a large flouring mill. The P. Ft. W. & C. Railroad constructed a railroad (currently owned by Conrail) station on N. Side of Lake. Since then it's become a popular place of resort for pleasure and fishing parties.

If you look on a map of Holmes County you will see that Plimpton was located near the Holmes / Wayne County line and the nearest large town was Wooster. History has it that there was a train crash here in the late 1800's and they dug a hole and buried the train not far from this grain elevator. History also says that this elevator is haunted. The part of the elevator that is painted red was a lounge back in the late 1800's to early 1900's where when trains would come through they would stop here and the engineers would go in a party a little. They had ladies of the night in there as well as booze. There was also a train station just up the rail where passengers would get on or off the old trains. There was also a water tower for the steam engines to load water for the steam. There is also a lake here called Odell Lake where in the winter they would cut ice and load it onto box cars and take it east to New York and west to Indiana. The workers would come in during the late fall and stay till spring to cut ice, Then they would leave and go home. Some of the workers made enough that when they returned they bought some land and set up a home for there families. I know this for a fact

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