Editing Finneytown, Ohio (section)

===Founding===
In April 1795, an old preacher named Reverend Ebenezer Ward bought the section of land which included modern day Finneytown from [[John Cleves Symmes]]. Ebenezer Ward became ill and wrote a will which designated the land to be inherited by his grandson, Ebenezer Ward Finney (born 1755). At the time the 41-year-old Finney was living in [[Rensselaer County, New York]] and had served in the [[4th New York Regiment]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]]. Once he learned about his inheritance of Rev. Ward's land, Finney traveled to Finneytown to inspect the land. Finneytown at the time was sparsely populated and had one trail that went East-West, known at the time as The North Bend to Carthage Trace (modern day Northbend Road) and an Indian trail that went North-South. Finney sold his old farm and moved into Finneytown with his family in 1800. He set up his farmstead on a hilltop location near the North Bend road and the road to Winton's Plantation, and he also donated a plot of his land for a small church. Ebenezer Ward Finney died in 1822 at the age of 67. One of the original pioneers, Samuel Raymond, moved to Finney's land and built a blacksmith shop, which remained until the 20th century.<ref name="Finney" /><ref name="BeanFTHist">{{cite web |last1=Bean |first1=David |title=History of Finneytown |url=https://finneytown.org/about/history-of-finneytown/ |website=Finneytown Local School District |access-date=3 April 2023}}</ref>