Linnville: Land of the quiet farms
Published 12:00 am Monday, June 14, 2004
LINNVILLE- Ask folks to describe Linnville and they will tell you it is a peaceful place.
"Not a lot goes on out here," said Carrie Cheek, education coordinator for the Lawrence Soil and Water District. The district office is at Linnville. "It's really nice. It's quiet here."
Besides the soil and water district office, there is a post office, one of the county's oldest churches, a Lutheran church that once served the German settlers who came here in the early days of Lawrence County's history. Soon, Buckeye Rural Electric Cooperative will have a satellite office there. Two or three more people will then call Linnville their home-away-from-home.
And then there are the farms with fields that flow one into the other, punctuated by a creek now and then, or some trees or a fence row.
Doris Higgins has lived in Linnville 53 years.
"It's a peaceful environment. You don't have a lot of confusion. It's a peaceful country town."
The Dart is a weekly feature in The Ironton Tribune where a reporter throws a dart at a map of Lawrence County and finds a story where it hits.