Kitts Hill, Ohio facts for kids
Kitts Hill is a small place in Ohio, United States. It's called an "unincorporated community." This means it's a group of homes and businesses that isn't officially a town or city with its own local government. It's located in Lawrence County, in a part called Lawrence Township.
Kitts Hill has its own post office with the ZIP code 45645. You can find it along State Route 141. It's northeast of a city called Ironton. Ironton is important because it's the "county seat" for Lawrence County. This means it's where the main government offices for the county are located.
About Kitts Hill
Kitts Hill has a community center. This building used to be a school for the Deering Local School District. Today, most students from Kitts Hill go to schools in the Rock Hill Local School District. A few students in very small parts of the area attend schools in the Dawson-Bryant Local School District.
How Kitts Hill Got Its Name
Kitts Hill is named after a family. The first person from this family to live there was a farmer named Charles Edward Kitts. He was born in a place called Belmont. Charles Edward Kitts passed away in Kitts Hill in 1875.
His son, Edward Franklin Kitts, and Edward's wife, Mary Ann, also lived there. Later, their daughter, Louisa Esther, married a man named Willis Crowe. The Crowe family owned and managed the farm for a big part of the 1900s.
