Introduction
The “Switzerland of Ohio,” typically referring to Monroe County including the county seat, Woodsfield, is largely identified by associated cultural similarities with the State of West Virginia and, in turn, with Northern Ireland as the Scots-Irish have largely determined the culture of the modern communities within the county, both from the perspectives of Shenandoah settlers and of settlers in the modern area around Washington County, Pennsylvania. As an integral portion of Appalachia, the county is mostly identified as highly depressed throughout, including within the county seat, Woodsfield.
Woodsfield
The county seat of Monroe County, Ohio, is the community of Woodsfield, accessible by State Routes 26, 78, and 800. However, a number of additional state highways are scattered throughout the different regions of the county, many with a significant series of sharp bends, twists, turns, and curves, though not typically requiring hairpin turns as with communities more deeply in the Appalachian region, such as the Shenandoah Mountains outside the valley.
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