Editing Middle Point, Ohio (section)

==History==
Middle Point was laid out in 1851.<ref name="Gilliland 208">{{cite book|last=Gilliland|first=Thaddeus Stephens|title=History of Van Wert County, Ohio and Representative Citizens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd8yAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA208|year=1906|publisher=Windmill Publications|page=208}}</ref> The town's original name was Sykestown, after the Sykes family whom originally owned the land in the mid 19th century. The village was later renamed Middle Point for its relatively central location between [[Delphos, Ohio|Delphos]] and [[Van Wert, Ohio|Van Wert]].<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=103|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=87}}</ref> A post office has been in operation at Middle Point since 1854.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.postalhistory.com/postoffices.asp?task=display&state=OH&county=Van+Wert | title=Van Wert County | publisher=Jim Forte Postal History | accessdate=13 December 2015}}</ref> Middle Point was incorporated as a village in 1874.<ref name="Gilliland 208" />