Editing Leesville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Leesville was platted August 1, 1812, as Leesburg in what was then One Leg Township, Tuscarawas County, by Thomas Price and Peter Saunders. By the 1820 census it had 131 residents.<ref name=Tusc370>{{cite book |title=The History of Tuscarawas County |last=Mansfield |first=J.B. |year=1884 |publisher=Warner, Beers & Co. |page=370 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5DguAAAAYAAJ&q=history+tuscarawas+county
 }}</ref><ref name=car-har195>{{cite book |title=History of Carroll and Harrison Counties |last1=Eckley |first1=H.J. |last2=Perry |first2=W.T. |year=1921 |publisher=The Lewis Publishing Co. |page=195 |url=http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Carroll/Carroll1921Index.htm}}</ref>  By 1880, the population was 408, mostly involved in farming and coal mining, and the post office was named Leesville to avoid confusion with a [[Leesburg, Ohio|Leesburg]] in [[Highland County, Ohio|Highland county]].<ref name=howe363>{{cite book |title=Historical Collections of Ohio, The Ohio Centennial Edition |last=Howe |first=Henry |year=1907 |publisher= The State of Ohio |page=363 |isbn=9780788425837 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OXIOAAAAIAAJ&q=henry+howe}}</ref>  At some later point the village name was changed.

Eckley and Perry state of Leesville: "It was one of the stations on the [[Underground Railroad]], and in those days its little public hall at times was visited by such bright and shining abolition lights as [[William Lloyd Garrison]], [[Frederick Douglass]], [[Wendell Phillips]], [[Parker Pillsbury]]."<ref name=car-har195/>