Cozaddale is an unincorporated community

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 in southeastern Hamilton Township

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, Warren County

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, Ohio

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, United States

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. It is about one mile south of Camargo, one mile southeast of Hickory Corner, and two miles west of Pleasant Plain

Pleasant Plain, Ohio

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, and three miles north of Goshen, Ohio. It was laid out by John J. Cozad in 1871 (father of Robert Henri

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), who hoped to prosper from the site's location on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad

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 (later the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

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). Cozaddale briefly had a post office in the 1870's. It has 3 churches, the largest being Cozaddale Baptist Temple, which is home to the Cozaddale Baptist Academy.
Cozaddale also had a small convenient store located near the railroad tracks, which operated under various names, including Jerry's, Junior & Leona's, and the Pop Stop. It currently has a campground named Cozy-Dale Campground, and has a pay fishing lake, Lake Cozy-Dale.

Notable residents

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• George Terwilleger was born in Cozaddale in 1941, and served as Warren County Commissioner and as Ohio state representative
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  . A bridge in Foster, Ohio, where the Old 3-C Highway crosses the Little Miami River
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  , is named in his honor.
• Ches Crist
  Ches Crist
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   was born in 1882 in Cozaddale. He is the only Cozaddale-born native to play professional baseball. He played for the 1906 Philadelphia Phillies
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  , where he played in six games as catcher, but went 0-for-11 in his only stint in the majors.