Broadway, Ohio, 43007

Population 48; diversity index 4; median household income $77,175; average household income, $79,584. Downtown has a post office and Old Stone Haus Tavern.

Here is a satellite view: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Broadway,+OH+43007/@40.3405968,-83.4129868,564m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x8838da73df536855:0xcac394087658cb46!5m1!1e4

Nice looking town.

The two bare places in the lower right are a baseball field and (probably) a softball field. The second does not have a fence.

Broadway is in Union County in west central Ohio. “Broadway was one of the last communities to be organized in Union County. It was laid out along the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, surrounded by giant forests which supplied the community with a great source of revenue. As of 1877, the community contained a spoke and hub factory, four dry goods and grocery stores, two drug stores, one grain warehouse, two blacksmith shops, one boot and shoe shop, a school-house, and a meeting house.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway,_Ohio

I do not know if “giant forests” still existed in Ohio in the 1870s, but whatever trees were there have certainly been cleared for farmland.

More than 3,200 Union County men served in the Civil War. Casualties totaled 1,035. MG Robert Sprague Beightler (1892-1978) was a Union County native. He commanded Ohio’s 37th Infantry Division throughout World War II. Rodger Young was with the 37th when he performed deeds that led to posthumous award of the Medal of Honor.