Bowling Green, Ohio Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Settlement=== Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a town in 1855, and became a city in 1901. The village was named after [[Bowling Green, Kentucky]], by a retired postal worker who had once delivered mail there.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=33|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=17}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The History of Bowling Green State University |journal=Bgsu Faculty Books |date=January 1967 |page=16 |url=https://lib.bgsu.edu/scholarworks/other/Overman/HTML/files/assets/basic-html/index.html#20 |access-date=27 August 2020 |ref=20|last1=Overman |first1=James }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page