Junction City was laid out in 1872, by George Wolf and John Edmiston. Mr. Wolf had previously laid out a town and called it Damascus, and Mr. Edmiston had laid out one and named it Trio City. Wolf and Edmiston owned farms adjoining, near the crossing of the C. & M. V. and N. S. & S. Railroads. Mr. Wolf was Postmaster and had succeeded in having the name of the post office changed from East Rush Creek to Damascus, corresponding with the name of his newly platted village. Unpleasant complications ensuing, Wolf and Edmiston, the rival town proprietors, were induced to submit affairs to arbitration, which recommended that the two proprietors unite their plats, that the names of Trio City and Damascus be discarded, and that the joint town and post office be called Junction City. This arrangement was amicably agreed to by all parties interested, and so the village and post office were duly christened Junction City. The place had been known for nearly twenty years as Wolfs Station, a point on the C. & M. V. R. R. During all this time, however, it was but a small hamlet, containing only a post office, store, a shop or two, and a very few inhabitants. After the laying out of Junction City, there was a ready sale of lots for a while, and the village grew with considerable rapidity. It now contains a post office, two station houses, two telegraph offices, two hotels, two churches, one bent works, one flouring mill, one newspaper, a good two-story brick school house, two dry goods stores, two hardware stores, two drug stores, two millinery stores, four physicians, one meat shop, and a number of groceries and eating houses.

 

Three railroads passed through the town. The village is situated near the north bank of Rush Creek, part of it lying in the valley, but most of it on the slopes and heights northward. Crossenville was laid out in 1817, by William Crossen. It grew into a thriving little village, and, for a long time, was a point of considerable trade. It was at one time a tobacco market of some consequence. It had also a post office, for some twenty or thirty years, but that has long been discontinued. Crossenville had one church, two stores, a number of private houses, and a population of about fifty. The village was beautifully situated on the high grounds between the waters of Rush Creek and Monday Creek. Middletown, situated in the southern part of Jackson township, was established in 1853-54.  At the time, work was in progress at the tunnel on the old Scioto & Hocking Valley Railroad. It is delightfully situated upon the ridge which separates the waters of Rush Creek from those of Monday Creek. The village had a post office, with mail every other day; one church, two stores, several private residences, and about fifty inhabitants. Clarksville was laid out by Daniel Clark in 1854, and had for several years, a post office, store, shops and several private residences, but since the building of Junction City, only one mile off, the village has gone down. St. Patrick's, a large Catholic church, is here as it was before the establishment of Clarksville, and not affected in any way by the rise or decline of the village. Mount Hope was laid out in 1835, by George Kishler and Patrick Sweeney. The point was a public cross-roads, and the site of the village was a beautiful one; but it was never built up to any considerable extent. 

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(Source: perrycountyohio.us)