Broadway, Ohio

Main and Center Streets

Broadway is an unincorporated community in western Taylor Township, Union County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 43007.^[1] It lies along State Route 347 between Raymond and Magnetic Springs.

Broadway was one of the last communities to be organized in Union County. It was laid out along the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, surrounded by giant forests which supplied the community with a great source of revenue.^[2] As of 1877, the community contained a spoke and hub factory, four dry goods and grocery stores, two drug stores, one grain warehouse, two blacksmith shops, one boot and shoe shop, a school-house, and a meeting house.^[2]

References

↑ Zip Code Lookup Archived October 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
1 2 A.S. Mowry, C.E., Atlas of Union County, Ohio, Harris, Sutton & Hare, Philadelphia, 1877, Pg. 20.

Municipalities and communities of Union County, Ohio, United States

County seat: Marysville

Cities	Dublin‡ Marysville

Villages	Magnetic Springs Milford Center Plain City‡ Richwood Unionville Center

Townships	Allen Claibourne Darby Dover Jackson Jerome Leesburg Liberty Millcreek Paris Taylor Union Washington York

CDPs	New California Raymond

Unincorporated communities	Allen Center Arnold Bridgeport Broadway Byhalia Chuckery Claibourne Dipple Essex Irwin Jerome Lunda New Dover Peoria Pharisburg Pottersburg Somersville Watkins Woodland York Center

Ghost town	Homer

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 40°20′28″N 83°24′44″W / 40.34111°N 83.41222°W / 40.34111; -83.41222

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