Editing Forest, Ohio (section)

==History==
A post office has been in operation at Forest 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 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222084954/http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Hardin |archive-date=December 22, 2015 }}</ref> Forest was [[plat]]ted in 1855 when the railroad was extended to that point.<ref name="Kohler 165">{{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/165 165]}}</ref> The village most likely was named for the fact the original town site was a forest.<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=62|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=46}}</ref> Forest was incorporated in 1865.<ref name="Kohler 165" />

Forest was directly in the path of totality during the [[solar eclipse of April 8, 2024]] for almost four minutes, making it one of sites with longest duration of totality.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gerlett |first1=Kristy |title=Small Ohio village to experience one of the longest periods in totality |url=https://www.10tv.com/article/news/local/ohio/total-solar-eclipse-small-village-hardin-county-forest-ohio-prepares/530-8b792100-782d-44d7-ae0d-f09221b239dd |access-date=25 June 2024 |agency=10 WBNS |date=1 April 2024}}</ref>