Reesville
Reesville is an unincorporated community in northwestern Richland Township of Clinton County located along State Route 72. It has a post office with the ZIP code of 45166 that has been in operation since 1858. Reesville was platted in 1857 by Moses Reese, and named for him. The town of Reesville was originally known as Cross Roads.
The town originally consisted of twenty acres with twenty five lots lying along the railroad with the Urbana highway running through it as a cross street. The town is located two and a half miles West of Sabina. A postoffice was established soon after the town was laid out with JE Barr as the first postmaster. Jonathan and Henry Ruckers were the first merchants having established a store here before the town was laid out in 1857. Other early merchants were Samuel Reed, Baron Douglass, William Wilson and William Lyons. Christian Rhonemus started a store in 1858 and members of this family were engaged in business in the town for many years. In 1858 Robert McClellan a tailor established himself in his trade in the town but evidently he did not stay long. No other man has ever ventured the establishment of a similar business. Alfred Bloone operated a grist mill and Alexander Sellars a saw mill for many years. The town gradually grew in importance and according to the census of 1880 was then a flourishing village of one hundred and fifty population. At that time the following enterprises were to be found: Four general stores, a drug store, two saloons, two blacksmith shops, one shoe shop, postoffice, railroad depot, one church and one school building. The school building was erected in 1912. Two vans hauled the children in from the surrounding community. Reesvllle had station stops on the Baltimore 8 Ohio Southwestern and the Cincinnati& Muskingum Valley railroads.