Bloomingville is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in northern
Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio
Oxford Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio micropolitan statistical area and the Cleveland-Akron-Canton Combined Statistical Area. The 2020 census recorded 1,140 reside ...
, United States.
It is part of the
Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area
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. Bloomingville is located at the intersection of Mason Road and Patten Tract Road. The Oxford
Grange Hall located where Taylor Road forks off from Mason was the center of community life for many years.
The compact community consisted primarily of farmhouses clustered near the main intersection. Many of the farmhouses had working farms adjoining them or nearby. To the northeast lay an unused tract of 9,000 acres (36 km) that had been the site of a
World War II
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munitions factory. In 1957,
NASA
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acquired part of this tract for its
Plum Brook Station and by 1963 had acquired the rest of the tract to build additional facilities there.
In 1984 a large golf course called Woussickett opened on Mason Road, west of Patten Tract Road.
The Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve is located 1.4 miles east-northeast of Bloomingville on Scheid Road just off Taylor Road. The Sand Barrens are a remnant of Lake Warren, a glacial predecessor of today's
Lake Erie
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.
History
The first permanent settlement was made at Bloomingville in 1811 on the site of a former Indian camping ground. Bloomingville was laid out in 1817. A post office called Bloomingville was established in 1815, and remained in operation until 1906.
References
External links
NASA Plum Brook Station
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Erie County, Ohio
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