In the gently rolling farmland of southern Medina County, the residents of Seville enjoy all the advantages of rural-suburban living as well as the benefits offered by Akron and Cleveland. Upon your arrival you will appreciate the beauty of the land and will thrive on the fresh, clean air. Why would anyone choose to live anywhere other than.. Seville.
Enhanced by many New England heritage century homes and historical sites.
OUR FOUNDER
JULY 13, 1816, Henry Hosmer, trudging through the dense Ohio woodlands, stepped from the trees onto the north bank of Hubbard Creek... He forded the stream, and walked westward, passing a village of Delaware Indians, camped on the southside of the Hubbard, near the junction with the Chippewa...
The Delawares were numerous up and down the Chippewa valley. In addition to the tribe camped at the junction of the Hubbard and Chippewa, there was another camp village a mile southwest....
excerpts from "1816-1966, A Book About Seville", author Lee Cavin
Captain & Mrs. Martin Van Buren Bates -The Giants of Seville
IN 1873, a couple moved to Seville, Ohio, who would be responsible for more reams of newspaper footage than anyone who set foot there before or since.
The Captain & Mrs Bates toured Europe and the United States giving lectures and having "teas". They were presented at the Court of England on at least two occassions. Many of their friends included the Royal Families of Europe. They worked for a while for P.T. Barnum.
The Captain received his rank during the Civil War, while serving with Virginia State Line Troops. He was born in Kentucky in November, 1845. Growing until he was 28 years-old, he reached a height of seven feet, eight inches and a weight of 470 pounds.
Mrs. Bates was born in Nova Scotia in 1848. By 1870, she had established herself in a career, working for P.T. Barnum. It was Mrs. Bates who began giving "teas". She was not interested in Barnum's "traveling" shows. Rather, she had receptions at the Barnum Museum or in "noteables" homes. By her twenty-second birthday, Mrs. Bates was seven feet, eleven inches and weighed 413 pounds.
excerpts from "There Were GIANTS on the Earth", author Lee Cavin
THE SEVILLE INN FEATURES HOME-STYLE MEALS AND A HARMLESS GHOST
... After 172 years, it would only be surprising if it didn't have a ghost. Originally built in 1823, it burned down in 1895 and was rebuilt on the original foundation. "It went from a stagecoach stop to a train stop to an inn to a boardinghouse to a restaurant," a former owner said.
Among the guests at the inn was President William Howard Taft )....
But perhaps the most interesting guest is the one who never leaves. Myths of Emily have floated around the restaurant for years. (A past owner) wasn't too fazed until the day a woman walked into the restaurant and declared, "Do you know you have a ghost in here?"
"A ghost?"
"Sure she's sitting over there," the woman said, pointing to a chair in the corner.
Sure enough, when someone felt the air around the chair, it was cold.
The owner didn't completely concede her skepticism until a late night she and her sister spent at the restaurant last winter. Both of them were sitting in the dining room when they heard someone or something turn on the Coke machine in the kitchen.
Since then, the same thing has happened several times.
"We just keep on talking to her," the owner said. "We ask her to be really nice."
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