Editing Plainfield, Ohio (section)

==History==
Plainfield was laid out in 1816.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec00hunt | title=Historical Collections of Coshocton County, Ohio | publisher=R. Clarke & Company | author=Hunt, William Ellis | year=1876 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicalcollec00hunt/page/4 4]}}</ref> It was named from its setting upon the plains.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/historyofcoshoct00hill | title=History of Coshocton County, Ohio: Its Past and Present, 1740-1881 | publisher=A. A. Graham | author=Graham, Albert Adams | year=1881 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcoshoct00hill/page/550 550]}}</ref> By 1833, businesses in Plainfield included one store and one tavern.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ | title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary | publisher=Scott and Wright | date=1833 | accessdate=December 12, 2013 | author=Kilbourn, John | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n359 375]}}</ref> Plainfield was incorporated as a village in 1878.<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=128|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=112}}</ref>