Editing Matamoras, Ohio (section)

==History==
The Matamoras vicinity was first settled in 1797 by James Riggs and his sons-in-law, Martin and Anthony Sheets, along with their families. Riggs and his family cleared the land and built three cabins in the area.  Many of the first settlers were Revolutionary War veterans.<ref name="matamorashistory">{{cite web |title=The Matamoras Area Historical Society |url=http://matamorashistory.org/index.html |access-date=April 15, 2012 |archive-date=October 8, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121008221421/http://matamorashistory.org/index.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Matamoras, named for the [[Skirmish at Matamoros|Battle of Matamoros]] in the [[Mexican–American War]], was [[plat]]ted in 1846 by Stinson Burris and Henry Sheets.<ref name="matamorashistory"/> In 1861, Matamoras was incorporated and received its first post office that year. The U.S. [[Post Office]] changed the town's name to New Matamoras to avoid confusion with [[Metamora, Ohio|Metamora]] in [[Fulton County, Ohio|Fulton County]].<ref name="matamorashistory"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mariettatimes.com/communities/newmat.asp |title=New Matamoras was founded in 1846 |access-date=July 1, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060621223007/http://www.mariettatimes.com/communities/newmat.asp |archive-date=June 21, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Once a boom town for shipping, Matamoras has been supported economically by farming and oil.<ref name="matamorashistory" />