The post office was established in 1829 as Hillsborough. It was named from the terrain.
In Cain township, at Hillsboro, the oldest church was the Methodist. The building was 30 by 36 feet, costing one thousand six hundred dollars. The society was formed there in 1870, with thirty-two members. The New Light doctrines were then being pressed on the minds of people in this section, and it was a long, hard struggle to maintain the new church, but finally it succeeded, and it had forty-two members in 1880, since which it has advanced.
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Judge Thompson's account of this movement, taken from his History of the County of Highland: "The town of Hillsboro has always been noted for its interest in the encouragement of all systems of education, and few populations have excelled that of Hillsboro in the promotion of female education ; the result of which has been to establish a high standard of refinement of both
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steamed into the historic httle town of Hillsboro the banks surrounding the station were Hned with enthusiastic citizens of the place. The procession was formed and the hne of march taken up in the direction of the First Presbyterian Church, which stands on the site of the old Crusade church. Here the visitors were welcomed by the pastor, Rev. Mr. Faulconer, and a committee of Hillsboro women. The church was
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The history of the county of Highland, in the state of Ohio, from its first creation and organization, to July 4th, 18761878Read the page →
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The “Hillsboro Gazette’* was founded in the year 1818 by Moses Carothers. It was among the first county papers started in Ohio. In the spring of the year 1818, Carothers brought to Hillsboro an outfit for a small printing office.
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Hillsboro, the county seat of justice, was surveyed and laid out and the original town plat was recorded on the 28th day of August, A. I). 1807. Since that rime various additions have been made to the original town plat, corresponding in the main, in the breadth of streets, alleys and the area of lots to the original plat.
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