Centerville is an unincorporated community in Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio, United States. It is located about southwest of Marion at the intersection of Centerville-Green Camp Road and Centerville-Newmans Road.Rand McNally, The Road Atlas '06, Chicago, 2006, p. 78.
History Centerville was originally laid out by George Clay in 1863 along the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad.Leggett, Conaway & Co., The History of Marion County, Ohio..., Culver, Page, Hoyne, & Co. Printers, Chicago, 1883, Pg. 895. As of 1883, the community contained one grocery store, one sawmill, a grain warehouse, a schoolhouse, a railroad station/post office, and about 12 homes.
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