Beallsville, Ohio
Coordinates: 39 ° 51 ′ N , 81 ° 2 ′ W
Beallsville is a village in Monroe County , Ohio , USA. According to the 2010 census, 409 people lived there, in an area of 0.93 square kilometers.
Beallsville became famous during the 1960s. At that time five residents of the village died in the Vietnam War . For a village with fewer than five hundred inhabitants this was traumatic; The mood in the village was described in a lengthy, illustrated report by Ramparts magazine . Politician Clarence E. Miller asked both Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and President Richard Nixon to withdraw the other six villagers who served in the Vietnam War from the war zone. However, this request was rejected.
In the German-speaking area, Beallsville became known through the journalist Claas Relotius , who falsified a report about the political mood in this village.
Demographics
From 1830, when 50 people lived in Beallsville, the population increased steadily. The village experienced a temporary high point in 1910 when it had 564 inhabitants. Then followed a decline - in 1950 the village had 410 inhabitants. In 1980, 601 people lived in Beallsville.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jeffrey Blankfort: Our Town: The War Comes Home to Beallsville, Ohio . Ramparts, Vol. 8, No. 1 (July 1969), pages 39-46.