Urbana, Ohio is the county seat of Champaign County and has been since the county's creation in 1805. William Ward, who founded the town, named it after the word urbanity, which means courteousness and refinement of manner, with a secondary definition of urban life. In the summer of 1897, the residents of Urbana formed a lynch mob and broke into the town jail, removing Charles Mitchell, a black man accused of killing a white man. The crowd had been forming for a couple of days in front of the jail. The state militia, summoned by the Sheriff, arrived and were in the courthouse when someone in the mob fired into the jail. The militia returned fire, killing one of the men in the mob and wounding a few others. When the crowd breeched the jail at about 2:30 in the morning, the militia and the sheriff retreated to an upper floor. The mob hanged Mitchell in the courtyard of the courthouse.
Regular Blogs
Donay Life and Wellness Center Blog
Local chiropractic firm posts items about losing sleep to fibromyalgia, acupuncture to help sciatica, resistance training for good health, and how skipping breakfast can cause insulin resistance.
http://www.drdonay.com/blog
Local real estate agent Eva Carey maintains this weblog, which carries articles which address issues like what colors of paint do homeowners hate, design trends of 2016, and housing mobility.
http://evacarey.com/category/real-estate-news
Shares the intricacies of college life at Urbana University, which includes posts about schedule changes, information changes about openings and closings, upcoming classes and assemblies, and things every Urbana student should know.
http://www.urbana.edu/campus-life/
