Editing Hayesville, Ohio (section)

== History ==
Lemuel Boulter was the original owner of the land that the village of Hayesville was formed. Boulter sold his interest in the land to Linus Hayes.<ref>{{cite book | title=A History of the Pioneer and Modern Times of Ashland County | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofpioneer00knap | publisher=J.B. Lippincott & Company | author=Knapp, H. S. | year=1863 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofpioneer00knap/page/289 289], 290}}</ref> The first settlers came to the Hayesville area in 1817. A post office for the settlers was established in 1827 at Hayes Cross Roads. Hayesville was laid out in Vermillion Township and plots were recorded in [[Mansfield, Ohio]] on October 26, 1830.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA180 | title=History of Ashland County, Ohio, Volume 1 | publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Baughman, Abraham J. | year=1909 | pages=180}}</ref> The village was named after Linus Hayes, proprietor.<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=75|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=59}}</ref> Hayes Cross Roads was later renamed Hayesville. The village of Hayesville was incorporated in 1849.<ref>Patterson, Virginia. ''Early History of Hayesville and Vermillion Township''.  1975.</ref>