Bloomingville, Ohio
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Unincorporated area
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in northern Oxford Township
Oxford Township, Erie County, Ohio
Oxford Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area...
, Erie County
Erie County, Ohio
As of the census of 2000, there were 79,551 people, 31,727 households, and 21,764 families residing in the county. The population density was 312 people per square mile . There were 35,909 housing units at an average density of 141 per square mile...
, Ohio
Ohio
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, United States
United States
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. It is part of the Sandusky
Sandusky, Ohio
Sandusky is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Erie County. It is located in northern Ohio and is situated on the shores of Lake Erie, almost exactly half-way between Toledo to the west and Cleveland to the east....
Metropolitan Statistical Area. Bloomingville is located at the intersection of Mason Road and Patten Tract Road. The Oxford Grange
Grange movement
The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, also simply styled the Grange, is a fraternal organization for American farmers that encourages farm families to band together for their common economic and political well-being...
Hall located where Taylor Road forks off from Mason was the center of community life for many years. The Bloomingville Cemetery is located behind the Grange Hall and runs from Mason through to Taylor Road.
The compact community consisted primarily of farmhouses clustered near the main intersection. Many of the farmhouses had working farms adjoining them or nearby. Not too far to the northeast, though, lay an unused tract of 9,000 acres (36 km²) that had been the site of a World War II munitions factory. In 1957 NASA
NASA
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acquired part of this tract for its Plum Brook Station
Glenn Research Center
NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field is a NASA center, located within the cities of Brook Park, Cleveland and Fairview Park, Ohio between Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and the Cleveland Metroparks's Rocky River Reservation, and has other subsidiary facilities in Ohio...
and by 1963 had acquired the rest of the tract to build additional facilities there.
In 1984 a large golf couse called Woussickett opened on Mason Road not too far west of Patten Tract Road.
The Erie Sand Barrens State Nature Preserve is located 1.4 miles ENE of Bloomingville on Scheid Road just off Taylor Road. The Sand Barrens are a remnant of Lake Warren, a glacial predecessor of today's Lake Erie
Lake Erie
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