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This website is designed to give you the latest
information regarding the Village of Bettsville,
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In the year 1834, John F. Betts purchased 68 1/2 acres of land in
Liberty Township Ohio. In 1838 Betts had it surveyed into 21 lots which
became the Village of Bettsville, Ohio. By 1847 Bettsville contained
seven (7) family dwellings, two (2) churches, one (1) cabinet shop, and one
(1) shoe
shop and a village population of 40.
Bettsville continued to expand
and thrive and many more businesses were started and many more
families settled in. In the bitter cold of the winter of 1912, the now
downtown business district that housed a department store caught
fire causing the entire north State Street to burn completely. Not one
single building stood to exist. The
very next day two businessmen, Andrews and Edmonson, opened their
businesses out of Andrew's kitchen. The State Street businesses
rebuilt to near what they are today.
In 1975 the Bettsville Fire
Department purchased the Sentle Trucking Company (formerly Craun
Transportation) building from
Mr. F.W. Craun to make it into what is now the Village Complex
housing the Fire Station, Police Department and Station, EMS Building, Water
and Sewer Office and Village Offices. The Village of Bettsville
is now home to approximately 670 residents with three (3) restraunts,
two (2) churches,
a barber shop, beauty salon, gas station/convenience store, bank and much more...
making rural village life more comfortable than ever.
As best we can research, there has been "a Betts family
heir" living within Bettsville since its inception. As of
2014 there is currently one (1) direct descendent of John F.
Betts living in the village! That resident is the maternal
grandson of Eualia [Betts] Biehler.
Information on this page was respectfully exerpted from
writings of John Durrett, a long-time Bettsville resident and
self-inspired village historian~ |
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Bettsville,
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