Somerset lost the county seat of Perry County in 1857, but retains the original 1829 courthouse. The only other county seat relocations I am aware of are Mahoning County (Canfield to Youngstown), Meigs County (Chester to Pomeroy in 1841), and Pike County (Piketon to Waverly in 1830). I'm sure there are others...?

 

Please nobody bring up the Marietta, Chillicothe, Zanesville, back to Chillicothe, definitely not Franklinton, Columbus Ohio State Capitol mess.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Looks like a time warp. Lose the cars, asphalt, and wires and it could be 1860.

 

  Thanks for posting.

I always thought Somerset was a neat little town. I hear a German restaurant there is suppose to be haunted. If you believe in that stuff or not their website was interesting and may be worth visiting.

 

http://www.clayhaus.com/default.php?page=tour

Burlington, Ohio -> Ironton, Ohio (Lawrence County), IIRC 1821.

Burlington, Ohio -> Ironton, Ohio (Lawrence County), IIRC 1821.

 

Good call on that move.

 

  Looks like a time warp. Lose the cars, asphalt, and wires and it could be 1860.

 

  Thanks for posting.

 

I know!  Inky thanks for taking the time to explore and post pictures/information on our small towns.

 

I have no desire to visit them, but its nice - and much appreciated - that you take the time to out to give these towns some UO love.

Nice town

Cute town!

I love this place. I have relatives there. I used to spend many hours exploring backroads and finding steams to do some aquatic life observations. There is even a little round-about type spot and a real hardware store!

Quaint.

Cute town. Thanks for taking the time to post these shots, Ink.

We have places such as Easton "Town Center," which is neither a town nor at the center, and requires branding and signs in order to be a "town center."

 

Then we have Somerset, perhaps Ohio's quintessential example of a place that needs no signs to identify the town center. The design says it all: Gen Sheridan on his horse, Winchester, presiding over the stately former courthouse, among other buildings set back from the roundabout. It's clearly a true town center.

I was there once, but never had an opportunity to see much of the town. On a bitter-cold December day in 1962, two other guys and I wrestled a four-and-a-half-ton engine out of an old Buckeye Pipeline Company pumping station just outside Somerset and loaded it onto a 1951 Chevy flatbed truck that would only make 45mph flat-out empty on level ground. It was an interesting, long drive back to Indiana with that load and a heater that didn't work.