Editing Ashville, Ohio (section)

=== Museums ===

==== Ashville Depot ====
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[[File:AshvilleOH18.JPG|right|175px|thumb|Ashville Depot]]
The Ashville Depot is a former, and the only remaining, train station for the Scioto Valley Railway. Built in 1876 and closed in 1976, this weatherboard building was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1980. It is located at the intersection of Madison and Cromley Streets.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Details {{!}} Ohio National Register Searchable Database Application |url=http://nr.ohpo.org/Details.aspx?refnum=80003209 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=nr.ohpo.org}}</ref> The building acts as a meeting place and railroad museum. It is currently owned and operated by the Ashville Community Men's Club.<ref>{{Cite web |title=D1300050001300 - County Auditor Website, Pickaway County, Ohio |url=https://auditor.pickawaycountyohio.gov/Parcel?Parcel=D1300050001300 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=auditor.pickawaycountyohio.gov}}</ref>

==== Ohio's Small Town Museum ====
[[File:AshvilleOH10.JPG|right|175px|thumb|Ohio's Small Town Museum]]
In 1978, the Ashville Area Heritage Society opened what became Ohio's Small Town Museum in a former [[silent film]] theater, known by locals as the Rocky Dreamland Theatre. The project was spearheaded by longtime village leader Charlie Morrison and researcher Bob Hines.<ref>https://www.ohiosmalltownmuseum.org/about-us</ref> The museum is home to local memorabilia including a 17-star [[United States flags|United States flag]], a [[buoy]] from the sunken [[battleship]], [[USS Maine (1889)|USS ''Maine'']], and the still-working traffic light that was invented by resident Teddy Boor in 1932.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ludlow |first=Randy |title=Museum shows off quaint, quirky |pages=B2 |work=[[The Columbus Dispatch]] |url=https://ohiosmalltownmuseum.org/Museum%20Shows%20Off%20Quaint%20and%20Quirky-180.pdf |access-date=April 13, 2022}}</ref> The museum claims that the traffic light is the world's oldest traffic light, a claim that the village itself supports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=World's Oldest Traffic Light, Ashville, Ohio |url=https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2927 |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=RoadsideAmerica.com |language=en}}</ref> This claim was again supported by [[Guinness World Records]] by naming it the Oldest Functioning Traffic Light.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oldest functional traffic light |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/100355-oldest-functional-traffic-light |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=Guinness World Records |language=en-gb}}</ref>

==== Old Town Jail Museum ====
The Old Town Jail Museum is located at the corner of Cherry and Long Streets. Built in 1886, the building served as police headquarters until 1988. In 2021, the village established a museum that pays tribute to the village's criminal justice history. Other parts of the building are used for Council chambers and the village's streets department.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reporter |first=STEVEN COLLINS Circleville Herald Senior |title=Old Town Jail Museum opens in Ashville |url=https://www.circlevilleherald.com/news/old-town-jail-museum-opens-in-ashville/article_c487a198-0505-5e82-874d-63f1d5f625aa.html |access-date=April 13, 2022 |website=Circleville Herald |language=en}}</ref>