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Westerville is a city in Franklin and Delaware counties, a northeastern suburb of Columbus, with a population of 39,190 at the 2020 census.

Westerville was laid out by Matthew Westervelt in 1839 and incorporated in August 1858, when its population was just 275 people.

Westerville is home to Otterbein University, founded in 1847 by the United Brethren Church and among the first American colleges to admit women without restrictions and to place women on its faculty.

Westerville was once known as the Dry Capital of the World for its strict bans on alcohol sales and as the longtime home of the Anti-Saloon League, a driving force behind national Prohibition.

In 1909 the Anti-Saloon League moved its national headquarters and its American Issue Publishing Company to Westerville, shipping out over 40 tons of temperance mail a month and making Westerville the smallest town in America with a first-class post office.

During the Westerville Whiskey Wars of the 1870s, townspeople twice dynamited the saloon of businessman Henry Corbin, in 1875 and 1879, after he defied the village's prohibition ordinance.

Even after national Prohibition ended in 1933, Westerville itself remained dry until the 1990s.

Several Westerville homes were stations on the Underground Railroad, including the Hanby House, home of composer Benjamin Russell Hanby, which became a museum in 1937.

The Anti-Saloon League's former headquarters building is now attached to the Westerville Public Library and houses the Anti-Saloon League Museum.

Westerville has about 15,208 households, about 72.5% of its homes are owner-occupied, and its median household income is about $109,404.