Haydenville Historic Town
Houses on Old US 33
Haydenville, Ohio is located in Ohio
Haydenville, Ohio
Haydenville, Ohio is located in the United States
Haydenville, Ohio
LocationHaydenville
Coordinates39°28′41″N 82°19′31″W / 39.47806°N 82.32528°W / 39.47806; -82.32528
Area20 acres (8.1 ha)
Built1870
NRHP reference No.73001480[1]
Added to NRHPMarch 20, 1973

Haydenville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southern Green Township, Hocking County, Ohio, United States.[2] As of the 2020 census the population of the CDP was 337.[3]

History

Haydenville United Methodist Church, part of the area historic district

Haydenville was founded in 1852.[4] The community was named for Peter Hayden, the original owner of the town site.[5] A post office has been in operation at Haydenville since 1870.[6]

Haydenville was the last entirely owned company town in Ohio. Hayden established the Haydenville Mining and Manufacturing Company in 1882.[7] The company owned every house and both stores in town. Employees were paid in scrip that they could only spend at the company store. They could not live there unless they worked there, if employees lost their jobs they also lost their home. Other stores were not allowed to open up in town. Only in the early 1960s, after the company was purchased by National Fireproofing Company,[8] were workers allowed to purchase their homes from the company.

In 1973, the community was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district under the name of "Haydenville Historic Town." Over 120 contributing properties were included in the historic district's 20 acres (8.1 ha).[1]

Geography

Haydenville lies along the Hocking River near U.S. Route 33, southeast of the city of Logan, the county seat of Hocking County.[9] While most of the CDP is within Green Township, the community extends south into Starr Township. Its elevation is 705 feet (215 m), and it is located at 39°28′55″N 82°19′42″W / 39.48194°N 82.32833°W / 39.48194; -82.32833 (39.4820130, -82.3282074).[10] Although Haydenville is unincorporated, it has a post office,[11] and a nearby cemetery.[12] Its ZIP code is 43127.[13]

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Haydenville CDP has a total area of 0.88 square miles (2.28 km2), of which 0.86 square miles (2.22 km2) are land and 0.03 square miles (0.07 km2), or 2.89%, are water.[14]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville, Ohio
  3. ↑ "Haydenville CPD, Ohio - Census Bureau Profile". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 11, 2023.
  4. ↑ Maniskas, Judith S. (2011). Logan and Hocking County. Arcadia Publishing. p. 24. ISBN 9780738582894.
  5. ↑ History of Hocking Valley, Ohio. Inter-State Publishing Co. 1883. pp. 1025–1026.
  6. ↑ "Hocking County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved December 10, 2015.
  7. ↑ "Haydenville and Redrow Holler: An Appalachian Understory | Center for Folklore Studies". cfs.osu.edu. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Haydenville, Ohio". Ohio History Connection. May 6, 2023.
  9. ↑ DeLorme. Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer. 7th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2004, 69 and 79. ISBN 0-89933-281-1.
  10. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville, Ohio
  11. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville Post Office
  12. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Haydenville Cemetery
  13. ↑ Zip Code Lookup
  14. ↑ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (G001): Haydenville CDP, Ohio". American Factfinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved January 8, 2018.

Further reading

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Haydenville, Ohio.
  • Tribe, Ivan (1988). Little Cities of Black Diamonds: Urban Development in the Hocking Coal Region, 1870-1900. Athens, OH: Athens County Historical Society.
  • Horn Sr, Larry (2020). Haydenville: The Company Owned Ohio Town that Outlived the Company. Buchtel, OH: Monday Creek Publishing.
  • Reeves, Mary Ann. "Haydenville". Society of Architectural Historian. Society of Architectural Historians. Retrieved November 27, 2022.


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