Georgesville, Ohio
| Georgesville, Ohio | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
 Location of Georgesville, Ohio |
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| Coordinates: 39°53′27″N 83°13′19″W / 39.89083°N 83.22194°WCoordinates: 39°53′27″N 83°13′19″W / 39.89083°N 83.22194°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Ohio |
| County | Franklin |
| Township | Pleasant |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP codes | 43119 (Galloway) |
| Area code(s) | 614 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1064712 |
Georgesville is an unincorporated community in western Pleasant Township, Franklin County, Ohio, United States. It is located southwest of Columbus, the county seat of Franklin County and the capital and largest city of Ohio. Georgesville lies at the confluence of Little Darby Creek and Big Darby Creek, which are State and National Scenic Rivers and tributaries of the Scioto River. Much of the swamp forest and prairie surrounding Georgesville is part of Battelle Darby Creek Park.
Situated across Big Darby from Georgesville, on the eastern bank below the confluence, the O.C. Voss site includes a Fort Ancient village and ceremonial mound. The reconstructed mound is located along the Ancient Trail in Battelle Darby Creek Park.
In 1797, Georgesville was founded as Central Ohio's first permanent white settlement (the same year as Franklinton). The town was originally situated on the eastern bank of Big Darby, now the site of Oak Grove Cemetery. A railway station was built on the western bank of Big Darby, and Georgesville occupies this site today, although the railway station is long gone.
Alkire Road originally featured two wooden covered bridges, spanning the Big and Little Darby above their confluence. The covered bridges were replaced by steel truss bridges (a Pratt truss over Little Darby and a Camelback truss over Big Darby), which were in turn replaced by modern reinforced concrete bridges, in a new configuration, in the 1990s. Before the truss bridges were torn down tests involving maximum load were conducted. At the time these bridge types were still common throughout the Midwest. The destruction of the bridges provided a wealth of information for engineers.
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