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Crooksville is a village in Perry County, Ohio, along Moxahala Creek, proudly nicknamed 'The Clay City of Perry County' and 'Potteryland USA.'

Crooksville owes its name to a postal mix-up: in the early 1870s storekeeper Joseph Crooks petitioned for a 'Reeds Post Office,' but because Ohio already had one, federal officials suggested 'Crooksville' instead — and the village was established around 1874.

The area was first settled in the early 1820s by Jacob Reed, who received his land deed signed by President James Monroe and built a lumber mill and farm of 300 to 400 acres; the railroad arrived through his farm in 1856.

Crooksville's earliest farm kilns were called 'bluebird potteries' because they could only fire from spring through fall in their unheated sheds — starting when the bluebirds returned and ending when they flew south.

Crooksville was once proclaimed the 'Pottery Capital of the World,' in an era when Ohio produced more pottery than any other state and most of it came from Crooksville and neighboring Roseville.

Crooksville was the home of the Hull Pottery Company, founded in 1905 by brothers Addis E. and J. J. Hull and one of the best-known art potteries in America.

The village was incorporated in 1894 with about 800 people, then boomed with the pottery trade to 3,028 residents by 1910 and a peak of 3,311 in 1920.

The population of Crooksville was 2,418 at the 2020 census.

Crooksville had 977 households at the 2010 census, with an average household size of 2.59 people.

Every July since 1966, Crooksville and Roseville have taken turns hosting the Crooksville–Roseville Pottery Festival, celebrating the region's clay heritage.