Editing Wauseon, Ohio (section)

==History==
Wauseon was [[plat]]ted 1853 when the [[Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway|Michigan Southern Air Railway]] was extended to that point.<ref name="History - City of Wauseon">{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityofwauseon.com/page/history|title=History - City of Wauseon|website=www.cityofwauseon.com|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> Land speculators bought 160 acres of land, which would become the City of Wauseon.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reighard|first=Frank H.|title=A Standard History of Fulton County, Ohio (Volume 1)|url=http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hx2zl7;view=1up;seq=241|year=1920|publisher=Lewis Publishing Company|page=209}}</ref> The original name for the city was "Litchfield" after Litchfield, New York, where many of the city's new settlers had emigrated from.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wauseondowntownassociation.org/wauseons-fame|title=race {{!}} Wauseon Remembers|website=Wauseon Downtown Association|language=en|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> However, Hortensia Hayes, the daughter of an early settler, suggested that the new village be named after an Ottawa Tribe Chief named Wauseon, who was forced by the federal government to forfeit their land, before moving to Oklahoma in 1839.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityofwauseon.com/page/history|title=race {{!}} Wauseon Remembers|website=Wauseon Downtown Association|language=en|access-date=2019-01-07}}</ref> The village was incorporated in 1859. With the commercial success that the railroad brought, Wauseon would grow larger than the original seat of Fulton County (Ottokee), and in 1869 Wauseon was named the county seat.<ref name="aldrich">{{cite book |last= Aldrich |first=Lewis Cass |date= 1888|title=History of Henry and Fulton counties, Ohio : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers|pages=288–289 |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofhenryfu00aldr/historyofhenryfu00aldr_djvu.txt|location=Syracuse, N. Y.|publisher=D. Mason & Co., Publishers}}</ref> The [[Fulton County Courthouse (Ohio)|Fulton County Courthouse]] was built in 1871.

Between 1901 and 1939, the community was served by the [[Toledo and Indiana Railway]], an [[interurban]] between [[Toledo, Ohio|Toledo]] and [[Bryan, Ohio|Bryan]], Ohio. The construction of the Ohio Turnpike in the mid 20th century also helped lead to the commercial growth of Wauseon.<ref name="History - City of Wauseon"/>

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|File:1851_railroad_map_showing_ottokee_as_fulton_county_seat.gif|1851 Railroad map: Ottokee is the county seat of justice.<ref>{{cite map|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/98688538/|title= Railroad & township map of Ohio|date=1851|publisher=Library of Congress|access-date=11 April 2016}}</ref>
|File:1890_railroad_map_of_ohio_fulton_county_excerpt.gif|1890 Railroad map: Wauseon is now the county seat.<ref>{{cite map|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/98688544/|title=Railroad map of Ohio|author=J. A. Norton, Ohio commissioner of railroads & telegraphs|date=1890|access-date=11 April 2016}}</ref>
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