Place:Perrysville, Ashland, Ohio, United States

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Perrysville is a village in Ashland County, Ohio, United States. The population was 735 at the 2010 census. The area was first permanently settled in 1810, but the village was not laid out until 1812. One of the settlers, Judge Coulter, picked the most beautiful spot for a village with the intentions of laying out a village, and although he had no name planned his neighbors jokingly called it "Coulterville." Following news in the fall of 1813 regarding the monumental victory of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, the residents decided to name the village in his honor. Although both Freeport and Coulterville are commonly thought to have been names of Perrysville prior to the Battle of Lake Erie, there is no known evidence to support either claim.

Perrysville is the birthplace of the famous nineteenth-century female author Rosella Rice, and home to retired boxer "Raging" Craig Weber. Explorer Jedediah Smith moved to Perrysville with his family as a teenager, it was here that he gained an appreciation for the wild frontier and learned to survive in the woods before heading west. Perrysville acts as headquarters of Mansfield Plumbing Products, one of the largest sanitation manufacturers in the world, and is also the location of a primary plant of Step 2 Industries.

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