Editing Bellevue, Ohio (section)

==History==
The city derives its name from James H. Bell, a railroad official.<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=27|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=11}}</ref>

Bellevue was the home of [[Henry Morrison Flagler]] when he partnered up with [[John D. Rockefeller]] to start [[Standard Oil]]. Flagler later went on to build the [[Florida Overseas Railroad]], to [[Key West, Florida]]. The property of his former Bellevue residence on Southwest Street is the current location of the Mad River & NKP Railroad Museum.

===National Register of Historic Places===
Bellevue and the surrounding countryside are home to three sites listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]: the [[Heter Farm]], the [[John Wright Mansion]], and the [[Tremont House (Bellevue, Ohio)|Tremont House]].<ref>{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>