Selma is an

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Madison Township, Clark County, Ohio Madison Township is one of the ten townships of Clark County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census reported 2,532 people living in the township. Geography Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships: * Ha ...

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History

Selma was

plat In the United States, a plat ( or ) (plan) is a cadastral map, drawn to scale, showing the divisions of a piece of land. United States General Land Office surveyors drafted township plats of Public Lands Survey System, Public Lands Surveys to ...

ted in 1842 when the Xenia and Columbus Pike was extended to that point. A post office called Selma was established in 1841, and remained in operation until 1967. Selma was a station on the

Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was an organized network of secret routes and safe houses used by freedom seekers to escape to the abolitionist Northern United States and Eastern Canada. Enslaved Africans and African Americans escaped from slavery ...

References

Unincorporated communities in Clark County, Ohio 1842 establishments in Ohio Populated places established in 1842 Unincorporated communities in Ohio {{ClarkCountyOH-geo-stub