Editing Tiltonsville, Ohio (section)

==History==
Tiltonsville was laid out in 1806 by John Tilton, and named for him.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5doyAQAAMAAJ |title=20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio and Representative Citizens |publisher=Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company |author=Doyle, Joseph Beatty |year=1910 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5doyAQAAMAAJ/page/n461 481]}}</ref> He purchased this land and full Section No. 22 from the United States at a land auction in Pittsburgh on November 25, 1796. Tilton paid $3,623.76 for 900 acres of land – half at the time of purchase and the balance on November 18, 1797; his deed by patents dated November 20, 1797, and it is signed by President John Adams.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Richardson|first=Robert H.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9508497|title=A Time and Place in Ohio: A Chronological Account of Certain Historical and Genealogical Miscellany in Eastern Ohio|date=1983|publisher=Exposition Press|isbn=0-682-49931-5|edition=1st|location=Smithtown, N.Y.|oclc=9508497}}</ref> A post office called Tiltonville was established in 1852, and the name was changed to Tiltonsville in 1875.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Jefferson |title=Jefferson County |publisher=Jim Forte Postal History |accessdate=January 2, 2016}}</ref>

Tiltonsville is the location of the [[Hodgen's Cemetery Mound]], a [[tumulus|burial mound]] built by the prehistoric [[Adena culture]].<ref>Owen, Lorrie K., ed. ''Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places''. Vol. 2. [[St. Clair Shores, Michigan|St. Clair Shores]]: Somerset, 800.</ref>