Deerfield Township Roads from Beers History of Warren County, Ohio
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Transcription contributed by Martie Callihan 28 December 2004

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The History of Warren County Ohio
Part IV Township Histories
Deerfield Township by Louis F. Coleman
(Chicago, IL: W. H. Beers Co, 1882; reprint, Mt. Vernon, IN: Windmill Publications, 1992)


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As early as 1790, an open way was made through this region by Gen. Harmar with his several hundred men, who marched from Fort Washington (Cincinnati) to the Maumee for the purpose of attacking the Indiana there, This trace entered the township on the west side, and, running north and northeast, passed out of the township on the north aide. The army encamped a short time on the bottom of Little Muddy Creek, on the place now owned by Joseph McClung on Section 32. This open way made by them was used as a road for a long time by the settlers after locating in their new homes.
The trace made by the first-comers to Bedell's Station, crossed the township passing just west of Mason, and then, in a winding way northward, through Sections 31, 25 and 26. In a short time after this settlement was made, one of the most important early roads was constructed from Columbia to Deerfield, passing through the eastern part of the township, and known then by the name of the Round Bottom road, but now called the Union & Twenty-Mile Stand pike.

The State road, running from Cincinnati to Chillicothe, through Twenty-Mile Stand, was laid out in 1804. In 1834, this became a chartered pike, and was known as the Cincinnati, Montgomery, Hopkinsville, Roachester & Clarksville macadamized turnpike. In 1836, the company was authorized to construct a toll-bridge at Foster's Crossing, which continued as such for many years.

In 1804, a road was laid out from Deerfield to Cincinnati passing to the east of Mason, and known as the Sergeant road.

In 1806, a road, starting from a mill near Deerfield, extended to the county line west of Socialville. The same year, the road running from Mason through what is known as Dogstreet to the present powder-mills, was laid out. In the latter part of 1806, the road running north and south through Socialville was laid out.

The State road, extending from Cincinnati to Xenia, through Mason and Lebanon, was laid out about 1810 or 1812, in its present place, and was noted in its early day for the extent of travel thereon.

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Nearly all the important roads of the township are now free turnpikes, and have been macadamized since the passage of the Free Turnpike Act of 1885. There are over sixty miles of pikes within the limits of the township.

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