The History of Tobasco, Ohio
What is with the peppers and the president?In September of 1865, the General and Mrs. Grant and Gen. and Mrs. William Tecumseh Sherman traveled east on the Ohio Turnpike (present S.R. 125) to visit friends and relatives in Clermont County. Upon arriving in the Tobasco area, the carriage in which the visitors were traveling was mobbed by admirers, former soldiers, and their families. They persuaded Grant to speak to them on this hot summer day. As he spoke, Grant was reported to have removed his coat and remarked, "It is as hot as Tabasco sauce today." When a post office was established here in March of 1878, it was given the name "Tobasco", always spelled incorrectly.
This map is from Lake & Gordon's 1891 Atlas of Clermont County
