Waynesville

Samuel Heighway and some other ritzy English frontiersmen settled Waynesville March 8, 1797. Over 10 tons of implements and supplies were bought at Baltimore and brought to Philadelphia. These were stowed aboard a 12 by 36 foot "Kentucky Ark" flatboat and moved on the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers to the Ohio, for use by the settlement party.

Today, Waynesville remains a small town with estimated population in July 2005 of only 2,980. The most common type of business in Waynesville is antique shops. Stop in the middle of town and look both ways along the street and you will most likely not see any other kind of store. In 2000, the median household income was $50,202 and the median house value was $127,600.

There is another benefit to living in Waynesville that is not immediately apparent from confines of the town. Waynesville is one of the two villages closest to the outdoor recreational opportunities available at Caesar Creek State Park The lake and surrounding area offers boating, swimming and hunting opportunities as well as fishing for many species incuding the ferocious muskie. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources has been stocking the lake with muskies for the past six years and fish over 30 inches have been taken already.