Seville, Ohio: Named for Spain
Near Akron, Ohio
The small village of Seville, Ohio, takes its name from one of Spain's oldest cities, though the connection is purely poetic. Henry Hosmer platted the settlement in eighteen twenty-eight along the edge of Medina County, and a post office followed in eighteen thirty. The township around it had already been carved out in eighteen sixteen, drawing New Englanders from Connecticut's Western Reserve lands just to the north.
Seville remained a quiet farming community for most of its life. Its modern claim to significance sits on two hundred seventy-three acres on its edge: Ohio Western Reserve National Cemetery, dedicated in the year two thousand as the one hundred nineteenth national cemetery in the United States. Named for the same Connecticut Western Reserve territory that shaped this whole corner of Ohio, it holds space for tens of thousands of veterans and their families. Today the village of roughly two thousand three hundred people is most visited by those who come to pay their respects.
