Editing Bradford, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Governor Woodrow Wilson campaigning by train for president in Bradford, Ohio LCCN2016652167.tif|thumb|left|Then Governor [[Woodrow Wilson]] campaigning in Bradford, Ohio from a train in 1912.]]
Bradford was [[plat]]ted in 1865 entirely within Darke County,<ref name="wilson">{{cite book|last= Wilson|first=Frazer Ells|title=History of Darke County, Ohio, from its earliest settlement to the present time, Vol. 1|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofdarkeco01hoba#page/n667/mode/2up|year=1914|publisher=Hobart Publishing Company|location=Milford, Ohio}}</ref>{{rp|615}} and it [[municipal corporation|incorporated]] in 1871.<ref name=wilson />{{rp|616}} The village was named for Tom Bradford, a railroad official.<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Miami County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fNcyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA469|year=1880|publisher=Windmill Publications|page=469}}</ref> Its population was recorded at 243 by the [[1870 United States census|1870 Census]].  By 1890, the community had grown to 1,338 residents, the majority of whom lived in Miami County.  Its growth was due to its location on the [[Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad]].<ref name=wilson />{{rp|615}}  At Bradford, the line from [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]] split into a northern branch that went to [[Chicago]] and  a southern branch that went to [[East St. Louis, Illinois|East St. Louis]]. The trains took on provisions and changed crews at Bradford, and some crew members found it a convenient place to live.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bradfordrrmuseum.org/index.html |title=Bradford Ohio Railroad Museum<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=June 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928163850/http://www.bradfordrrmuseum.org/index.html |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Successor line [[Conrail]] abandoned the tracks through Bradford in the 1980s.<ref>https://www.1westproductions.com/prrpc-logan-side-bradford-line-part-prr-panhandle-route/</ref>