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A Ghost Town Called Sophia
In Paulding County Ohio
We were gone from our home area in Ohio for several months last winter and returning home we saw many changes.
The Dollar General store moved to a new location, a new restaurant opened, and another one closed. Our town even got an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet store.
Something else new we saw were Ghost Town Signs out in the country. We noticed several of them along the backroads. This one is just a few miles south of my mother’s home.
Evidently there was a small town called Sophia in that corn field to the right of the sign.
From 1893 to 1895 there was even a functioning post office. There are no known remnants remaining.
It was a small short-lived farming town along the western railroad route between Fort Wayne, Indiana and Findlay, Ohio.
Makes me wonder why one town prospered and grew when another one didn’t.
I love finding tidbits of history like this. Sad that there is nothing else left.
Do you have ghost towns where you live?
