Bloomingville, Ohio facts for kids
Bloomingville is a small community in northern Ohio, United States. It's not a city with its own government, but it's a recognized area. Bloomingville is part of Oxford Township in Erie County. You can find it where Mason Road and Patten Tract Road meet. For many years, the Oxford Grange Hall was a very important place for people living here. It was a community center where people gathered.
This community was mostly made up of farmhouses. These homes were often grouped together near the main roads. Many of them had working farms right next to them or very close by.
To the northeast of Bloomingville, there was a large area of land. This land, about 9,000 acres, was once a factory that made supplies for World War II. Later, in 1957, NASA bought some of this land. By 1963, NASA owned all of it. They built a special research center there called the Plum Brook Station.
In 1984, a large golf course opened near Bloomingville. It is called Woussickett and is located on Mason Road.
The Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve is also close to Bloomingville. It's about 1.4 miles to the east. This nature preserve is a special place. It has sand dunes that are left over from an ancient lake called Lake Warren. This old lake was much bigger than today's Lake Erie.
History of Bloomingville
The first people to settle permanently in Bloomingville arrived in 1811. They built their homes on a spot that was once used by Native American groups as a camping ground.
The community of Bloomingville was officially planned out in 1817. A post office was opened in Bloomingville in 1815. This post office helped people send and receive mail for many years. It stayed open until 1906.
