Laceyville: the Ohio village under Tappan Lake

You asked, so we looked. After our Tappan Lake video, one of you told us Laceyville was the town really out under the lake. Here it is on the U.S. Geological Survey map surveyed in 1902 (a 1959 printing, which drew the new reservoir in blue right over it). Laceyville grew up around a stagecoach stop on Maj. John S. Lacey's Wheeling-to-Wooster mail route: the Laceyville House was built in 1842, and the village had an inn, a store, a school, a blacksmith and a post office from 1850 to 1907. When Tappan Dam went in during the 1930s, the valley went under. Today U.S. 250 crosses the water on a causeway right about where Laceyville stood. Down the valley, most of Tappan's buildings were torn down or moved before the water came.

Did your family come from Laceyville or Tappan? What do they remember?

Sources:
- Laceyville, Ohio: Wikipedia (post office 1850 to 1907; named for Maj. John S. Lacey; the site permanently submerged)
- Laceyville historical marker, Tappan Lake Scenic Byway, 2001 (the Laceyville House, 1842, a stagecoach stop on Lacey's Wheeling-to-Wooster mail route)
- 'Remembering Laceyville, the vanished village beneath Tappan Lake', Your Ohio News; 'Tappan Dam historical landmark built in 1936', Your Ohio News (Laceyville located where the causeway is today)
- Tappan historical marker, 1998 (most of Tappan's buildings torn down or moved during the late 1930s)
- Tappan Lake: Wikipedia (U.S. 250 on causeways built during construction)
- 1902: U.S. Geological Survey, Scio quadrangle (surveyed 1902, this printing 1959)
- 1961: U.S. Geological Survey, Deersville quadrangle
- Today: Ohio Statewide Imagery Program (OGRIP)