Editing Ada, Ohio (section)

==History==
Following the 1817 [[Treaty of Fort Meigs]], the [[Shawnee]] Indians held reservation land at Hog Creek near Ada. Ada itself was originally called Johnstown, [[plat]]ted in 1853 by S. M. Johnson when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kohler|first=Minnie Ichler|title=A Twentieth Century History of Hardin County, Ohio: A Narrative Account of Its Historical Progress, Its People and Principal Interests|url=https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury11kohl|year=1910|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury11kohl/page/197 197]}}</ref> When a post office was established it was called Ada Post Office, named after the postmaster's daughter, Ada.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Hardin County, Ohio|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofhardinc00warn|year=1883|publisher=Warner Beers & Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofhardinc00warn/page/n739 734]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=17|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=1}}</ref>  The post office has been in operation since 1854.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Hardin | title=Hardin County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | access-date=December 14, 2015}}</ref>

The growth of the village is due in large part to the founding of the Ohio Normal School, now known as [[Ohio Northern University]]. The University was founded in 1871 by [[Henry Solomon Lehr]], just eighteen years after Ada was first settled. Today, Ada is the second largest incorporated community in Hardin County.

In 1910, President [[William Howard Taft]] visited Ada,<ref>{{Cite web |title=The day a U.S. president visited Ada |url=https://www.blufftonicon.com/photo/2020/04/06/day-us-president-visited-ada |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Bluffton Icon |language=en}}</ref> to give the fall commencement speech at Ohio Northern University. To date, Taft is the only president to visit the village. Ada welcomed [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] to the village in January 1968,<ref>{{Cite web |title=MLK visited Ohio Northern 56 years ago |url=https://www.adaicon.com/photo/202401/mlk-visited-ohio-northern-56-years-ago |access-date=2024-08-02 |website=Ada Icon |language=en}}</ref> just three months before his assassination.

Ada has been noted for having one of the [[List of short place names|shortest place name]]s in Ohio.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=og1PAAAAIBAJ&pg=6847%2C3325059 | title=One More Letter And Ai May Be Put Onto Map | work=Toledo Blade | date=December 3, 1985 | access-date=May 21, 2015 | last=Wolfe |first=Don | pages=17}}</ref> The National [[Arbor Day]] Foundation has qualified Ada as a [[Tree City USA]] since 1981.