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Old 05-22-2006, 04:55 PM
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Default Edon, Ohio

I was wondering if anyone here at all had information on the history of Edon, Ohio? I'm actually in a band and we are becoming popular and we are coming out with our official demo soon and I found the name. I forget how actually. I saw a word and extracted every other letter and it was Edon. I looked it up and it said "Edon, Ohio". So I started searching for some town info and I'm mainly looking for how it got it's name. What the name means and kinda overall history of the town. It looks small and friendly. I hope I can get out and check out the place over the fall.
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Welcome. According to "Ohio Place Names" by Larry L. Miller, copyright 1996, Indiana University Press:
Edon - Williams County - A resident of Edon saved a newspaper clipping stating that "this was Weston until the Postal Service...pointed out another Weston...in Wood County...So...this town became Edon. No one remembers why. But the...townsfolk know it was once called Mudsock because of what happened every spring before the streets were paved. The best theory is that the rich farmland surrounding Edon led to people thinking of it as the Garden of Eden and some long-ago recorder was a poor speller. Indeed, the highway signs Edon across the border in Indiana spell it Eden. But not here." Edon was incorporated in 1868.
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Old 09-26-2006, 09:58 PM
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Default Edon High School class of 79

I was born and raised in Edon, Ohio. Farmland is good... so there might be some truth to the "Garden of Eden" post. If true, it wasn't common "folklore" in town. Then again, I never was good at history. My guess is that it was a spelling error.
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