River Mile: 409

Population: 1,515

U.S. Census Profile

Founded by James Edwards in 1795 and incorporated in 1816, the Village of Aberdeen was part of a frontier road through the then Northwest Territory called Zane’s Trace, the first continuous road through Ohio. The town was platted by Nathan Ellis, a Welsh-born landowner who was the village’s first Justice of the Peace and operated a ferry boat to Maysville, KY, across the Ohio River. The village, named after the city in Scotland, was known for a time in the 1800s as the “Gretna Green” of America, after another town in Scotland famous as a site for weddings. The Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge opened in 1931, replacing ferry service. Numerous homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed in floods in 1907, 1913 and, especially, in 1937.