Editing New Alexandria, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:New Alexandria Road houses.jpg|thumb|left|Houses on [[Ohio State Route 151]]]]
New Alexandria derives its name from the former proprietor, Alexander Smith, who laid out the town in 1831. Prior to this, the area was known as "Tempo" by the surrounding local community, derived from either a temperance hotel that was kept there by Matthew Thompson as far back as 1820, or the village [[Tempo, County Fermanagh]], Ireland where Thompson grew up.<ref name ="Our Clan">{{cite book|title=Our Clan A Biological and Geological account of the Family of Rev. Andrew Scott | page=25|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MatRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA25| last1=Scott| first1=Thomas Jefferson| year=1921}}</ref> 

There was a small collection of houses prior to Smith laying out the village. Thomson also started the first store and was the first postmaster of the village. In 1831, Smith opened a hotel and store in the newly organized area. Being distant from any rail or water transportation the village grew at a slow rate, it did however have a fairly large area of local trade with the rural community surrounding it. The village was incorporated in 1871 and has been the home of several small businesses, churches, clubs, a cemetery, a post office, a community park, a school and a volunteer fire department over the years.<ref name="History of Belmont and Jefferson Cty. OH">{{cite web|title=History of Belmont and Jefferson Counties, Ohio, and Incidentally Historical Collections Pertaining to Border Warfare and the Early Settlement of the Adjacent Portion of the Ohio Valley 1880 Pg 646|url=http://www.digitalshoebox.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/steubenbks2/id/23396|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323231234/http://www.digitalshoebox.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/steubenbks2/id/23396|archive-date=March 23, 2014}}</ref><ref name ="20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson Cty. OH">{{cite book |title=20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio and Representative Citizens pg 469|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5doyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA468|last1 = Doyle|first1 = Joseph Beatty|year = 1910}}</ref>

Confederate general [[John Hunt Morgan]] traveled through New Alexandria during the 1863 [[Morgan's Raid]] on his way to defeat at the [[Battle of Salineville]] in the [[American Civil War]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.carnegie.lib.oh.us/morgan |title=Morgan's Raid into Ohio |publisher=Carnegie Public Library |access-date=April 8, 2025 }}</ref>