Editing Waverly, Ohio (section)

=== European settlement ===
Although Europeans had been in the area hunting, trapping and surveying for some time prior, not until approximately 1796 did the first Europeans began to settle in the area around Waverly, in what is now [[Pike County, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite book |title=History of the Lower Scioto River Valley |year=1884 |page=689}}</ref> Pike County was named for General [[Zebulon Pike|Zebulon Montgomery Pike]], who was killed at the storming of York in Upper Canada in the war of 1812–15.<ref name=":3">{{cite book |title= History of the Lower Scioto River Valley |year=1884 }}</ref> He died during the war, on April 25, 1813, aged 35, and is considered a war hero, many landmarks and geographic areas being named after him.

Waverly was [[plat]]ted in about 1829 by a M. Downing, and it had 306 inhabitants by 1840. It was originally known as Uniontown; Francis Cleveland suggested changing the name to Waverly. He is believed to have done this because he was an admirer of Sir Walter Scott's [[Waverley Novels|Waverley novels]].