Olivesburg, Ohio

Olivesburg is an unincorporated community in northeastern Weller Township, Richland County, Ohio, United States.The town is on the bank of the Whetstone Creek, about two miles north of its junction with the Blackfork of the Mohican River.It has an advertising sign posted for Olivesburg Dynamite, indicating the town once had a manufacturer of explosives.[3] The store serves today as a convenience store selling to tourists visiting the Amish country of Ohio; they offer a t-shirt claiming Olivesburg is the Road Apple Capital.[7] The Olivesburgh post office was established in 1828[8] and the Oliveburg General Store claims to have been founded in 1840,[9] The 1873 county plat[10] shows the town to be the principal village of Weller Township, and refers to it as Olivesburgh in the text, Olivesburg in the map.
Olivesburg General Store Est.1840
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