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Plain City, which was formerly known
as Westminster and Pleasant Valley, is a community in
northern Madison County, Ohio. Prior to the arrival of
white settlers, the Wyandot Indians principally inhabited
the area that now includes Plain City. Whites drove most
of the Wyandots and other Indian groups from the region
during the War of 1812. In 1818, Isaac Bigelow, formerly
of Saratoga County, New York, surveyed the town of
Westminster.
In 1823, residents changed the
community's name to Pleasant Valley. In 1842, the Ohio
legislature formally incorporated the village. Because at
least three other Ohio communities were known as Pleasant
Valley, in 1877, residents successfully lobbied the state
legislature to officially change the town's name to Plain
City. Residents named the village after the Big Darby
Plain, where Plain City is located.
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