Editing Jeromesville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Jeromesville was [[plat]]ted in 1815 ( near the site of a former and abandoned Native-American village named "Jerometown").<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=82|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=66}}</ref> It is named for Jean/John Baptiste Jerome, (a French-Canadian fur trader and pioneer settler), from whom, Christian Deardorf and William Vaughn purchased land and 'founded' a new pioneer village, (which was originally spelled "Jeromeville").<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzEWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183 | title=History of Ashland County, Ohio, Volume 1 | publisher=S. J. Clarke Publishing Company | author=Baughman, Abraham J. | year=1909 | pages=183}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n168 169]}}</ref><ref>[[:File:Jeromeville Ohio map 1897.png]]</ref> A post office has been in operation at Jeromesville since 1816.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Ashland | title=Ashland County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=December 27, 2015}}</ref> [Note: the Native-American village of Jerometown is often attributed to be the same as "Mohican Johnstown"; however, the mid-1700s village named "Mohican Johnstown" was not at this same location.(see [[Lenape settlements]])]

In 2018, Mayor Randy Spade founded the Jeromesville Junior Council, an advisory group consisting of 5th through 8th graders attending [[Hillsdale Local School District]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/oh-ashland/jeromesville-students-look-ahead-to-the-future|title=Jeromesville students look ahead to the future|date=December 10, 2018|website=WEWS|language=en|access-date=January 7, 2019}}</ref>

This is the first Junior Village Council codified into law in the State of Ohio.