Editing Loveland, Ohio (section)

===Settlement===
Present-day Loveland originally lay at the edges of the [[Symmes Purchase]] and [[Virginia Military District]], in what was then the [[Northwest Territory]]. The area was first settled in 1795<ref name="Paxton">{{cite web|publisher=Loveland Beautification Committee|url=http://explore.communitiesinbloom.ca/CIB_Detail.cfm?id=146|title=City of Loveland, Ohio, USA|work=[[Communities in Bloom]]|access-date=August 1, 2006|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927094541/http://explore.communitiesinbloom.ca/CIB_Detail.cfm?id=146|archive-date=September 27, 2007|df=mdy-all}}</ref> by Col. Thomas Paxton:

{{blockquote|The [[Kentucky]] landowners who were dissatisfied with their family land titles sold their holdings and bought land in the Miami valleys. Colonel Thomas Paxton who won his spurs in General [[Anthony Wayne|Wayne]]<nowiki>'</nowiki>s army and became enamoured with the Miami Country, sold his farm in Kentucky primarily because of a faulty title and bought 1,200 acres where Loveland now stands. He came here at the age of sixty and bought numerous tracts from Colonel [[William Haines Lytle|Lytle]], becoming a wealthy man before his death in 1813. The names of ten of his children who came to Ohio are associated with commodious residences, beautiful gardens and great orchards.|William E. Smith|''History of Southwestern Ohio: The Miami Valleys''{{sfn|Smith|Smith|1964|p=159}}}}

Paxton named the settlement after himself; it was renamed Loveland in 1850.<ref>{{cite news|title=City: Transfer cemetery to Loveland ownership|first=Al|last=Andry|work=[[The Cincinnati Post]]|date=October 31, 1996|edition=East Central|department=Neighbors|page=3|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108147814/|via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>