A post office called Lyons has been in operation since 1837. Lyons was also called "Morey's Corners", and under the latter name the village had its start in 1850 when a plank road was completed to that point. The village was named "Morey's Corners" in honor of it founder Jinks Morey, who also founded what became First Universalist Church of Lyons, Ohio, now the oldest non-residential structure in Royalton Township, Fulton County, Ohio. The village was incorporated in 1900.
Elder Hodge, a Baptist minister, was the first preacher in the township, and Colonel Lathrop of Lucas county preached in the very early days to those of the Universalist faith. The first church built was the Universalist at Lyons, in 1862. There are now four churches in the township : one Universalist, one Disciples in Christ (both of these being in the village of Lyons), one Free Methodist and one Methodist Episcopal, the last two being on the eastern border of the township.
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A standard history of Fulton County, Ohio, an authentic narrative of the past, with an extended survey of modern developments in the progress of town and county1920 · page 162Read the page →
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The Lyons Commercial Bank, a co-partnership, had its inception in 1903, or 1.904, the principal organizer being a Mr. Seagreaves, who was connected with the Toledo and Western Railroad Company, the tracks of which were laid through Royalton Township and a station opened at Lyons in 1902. At the outset the bank was an authorized state bank, but in 1908 the original stockholders sold to prominent citizens of Lyons. From that time, the institution has been conducted as a private bank. There is every probability however that, on July 1,
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A log schoolhouse was built in Royalton Township, on section fifteen, in 1837, and for the session of that year Olive Green was the teacher. Amos Rathbun built the second school, a log house, on his own farm, about one mile south of Lyons, or Morey’s Corners. It is described as having “a floor of split puncheon, hewed upon the face; the seats and desks were of the same material.” Either on the site of that school, or near to it was, sometime later, built the frame schoolhouse known as the “Little Red Schoolhouse,” to which until about
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built the first schoolhouse in his neighborhood, of logs, with a floor of split puncheons, hewed upon the face, the seats and desks being of the same material. It was built upon the corner of his farm, one mile south of the present village of Lyons. In later years he left the county and settled near Weston, Lenawee county, Michigan, where he died August 18, 1887.
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