Yellow Springs, Ohio
In 1825, the village was founded by William Mills and approximately 100 families, followers of Robert Owen. The village was named after nearby natural springs with waters high in iron content. Antioch College was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, and began operating in 1853 with the distinguished scholar Horace Mann as its first president. In 2008, citing financial exigency, the University closed the College campus in Yellow Springs.
About Yellow Springs, Ohio in brief
Yellow Springs is a village in Greene County, Ohio, United States. In 1825, the village was founded by William Mills and approximately 100 families, followers of Robert Owen. The village was named after nearby natural springs with waters high in iron content. Antioch College was founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, and began operating in 1853 with the distinguished scholar Horace Mann as its first president. The Conway Colony, a group of 30 freed slaves who were transported by Moncure D. Conway, the abolitionist son of their former owner, were settled in this village in 1862. During the Red Scare of the 1950s, Yellow Springs and Antioch College came under scrutiny for alleged sympathies of faculty and students to the Communist Party. In 1979 Yellow Springs held the distinction of being the smallest municipality to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation. In 2008, citing financial exigency, the University closed the College campus in Yellow Springs. In 2011, Antioch College reopened in 2011 as the independent Antioch College.
In 2012, the remaining Yellow Spring facility of Creative Memories closed in 2012. It is part of the Dayton Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is home of Antioch College and Antioch University Midwest. The village became a center of activity for the Civil Rights Movement and anti-war movement in Ohio in the late 1960s and early ’70s. Villagers cast in their ballots for the Democratic presidential candidate in 1968. The current mayor of Yellow Springs is the daughter of a former mayor of the village, who was killed in a car crash in the 1990s. The mayor is the son of former mayor, who died in a motorcycle accident in the early 1990s, and was buried in a nearby cemetery. The town has a total population of 3,487. As of 2014, it had the largest LGBT population of all Ohio’s villages. It has a population of 3901; 3901 -83.67; 89278.77%. It is located at 39°44′6″N 83°′34″W 278° ﻉﻉ The U.S. Census Bureau has the total village population for Yellow Springs at 3901-867.
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