I've scoured the search results, and I can't find anything to answer this question. What is Losantiville? Other than the name of the train staion's "village." Was it an actual town, or is it just fiction? Thanks for the help...

Ohio/Cincinnati History

In 1788, Israel Ludlow, Matthias Denman, and Robert Patterson purchased eight hundred acres from John Cleves Symmes along the Ohio River at the Licking River's mouth. Symmes had purchased two million acres of land from the Confederation Congress in 1787 and now hoped to become rich by selling parts of the Symmes Purchase to others. Denman provided the necessary cash; Patterson found settlers; and Ludlow surveyed the land to make sales and also establish a town. By early January 1789, Ludlow had platted the town, dividing it into two types of lots. Near the town's center, lots were one-half acre. Outlying lots were four acres. Ludlow, Denman, and Patterson provided the first thirty settlers with two free lots, one of each type. The three men named the town Losantiville. The name was a convoluted contraction of the idea that this was a "city across from the mouth of the Licking River."

http://losantiville.blogspot.com/2007/10/w...santiville.html

Thanks much...

It's good to see that KI has/had tried to preserve a little history and give a little shout out to the 'Nati.