West Rushville, Ohio

The Rushville Historic District is a historic district in Richland Township, Fairfield County Ohio which bounds the original village of Rushville. The district is considered both historically and architecturally significant due to the preservation of many houses and commercial buildings representing a period from the 1820s to the early 1900s. It features examples of log construction, Gothic Revival, Federal, Italianate, and Queen Anne style architecture.Founded by Joseph Turner in 1808, Rushville is one of the earliest settlements in Fairfield County and stands south of the original Zane's Trace road constructed by Colonel Ebenezer Zane in 1797. Zane's Trace ran from Wheeling, WV to Maysville, KY and was the first road into Ohio and lead to the establishment of the first towns in the interior of the state. Because of its location near this route Rushville became a successful commercial area which featured several inns, taverns, and merchant shops. Rushville was also a stop on the Underground Railroad in the years preceding the Civil War. Several prominent abolitionists lived in the village including the Rev. William Hanby and his son, composer Benjamin Hanby.Today Rushville is bypassed by modern U.S. Route 22 which seems to have left the village largely untouched by change since the mid-20th century. The District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.The district includes 87 contributing buildings in a 33 acres (13 ha) area.

Fairfield Union High School is a public high school in Richland Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, located just west of the village of West Rushville, with an enrollment of 645 students. Fairfield Union High School is the only high school in the Fairfield Union Local Schools district, which consolidates three communities: Bremen, Pleasantville, and Rushville. The school's sports teams were originally known as the Fairfield Union Charging Knights, but changed the name to the Falcons in the late 2000s.

Mudhouse Mansion was located in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States, just east of the city of Lancaster. It was variously said to have been built sometime between 1840 and 1850, in the 1870s, or around 1900; the Second Empire style makes the 1870s seem most likely. It was demolished September 21, 2015. In 1839 or 1852 (year uncertain), Christian and Eleanor Rugh purchased the property from Abraham Kagy and Henry Byler. In 1919, the property was sold to Henry and Martha Hartman. Henry Hartman died in 1930 and the property was inherited by his daughter Lulu Hartman, who married Oren Mast. Her descendants still own the land today, and locally the home was long known as the "Hartman Place". The same building is described as the "Rugh-Mast" house in the book Heritage of Architecture and Arts, Fairfield County, Ohio by Ruth W. Drinkle.

Colfax is an unincorporated community in Pleasant Township, Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. It lies at the intersection of U. S. Route 22 and Lake Road, approximately 39.740N latitude and -82.502W Longitude. Located in the east of the county, it lies east of Lancaster (the county seat of Fairfield County) and west of Rushville

Bremen ( BREM-ən) is a village in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,479 at the 2020 census.

Rush Creek Township is one of the thirteen townships of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 3,996.

North Berne is an unincorporated community in Fairfield County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

John Artz Farmhouse is a historic building located at 5125 Duffy Road Berne, Ohio near Lancaster.

Pleasantville is a village in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. The population was 934 at the 2020 census.

Pleasant Township is one of the thirteen townships of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 6,181.

Geneva is an unincorporated community in Fairfield County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

Junction City Prison was located at the intersection of S Adcock Road and Pen Road NW near Junction City, Ohio.