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Yellow Springs is a village in northern Greene County, Ohio, named for the nearby natural springs whose iron-rich waters stain the rocks yellow.

Yellow Springs was founded in 1825 by William Mills and about 100 families who were followers of social reformer Robert Owen and hoped to recreate his utopian community of New Harmony, Indiana — though the experiment dissolved amid internal conflicts.

The Little Miami Railroad, completed in 1846, turned Yellow Springs into a small resort destination, as 19th-century visitors came to take the supposedly medicinal spring waters.

The village of Yellow Springs was incorporated in 1856.

Yellow Springs is home to Antioch College, founded in 1850 by the Christian Connection, which opened in 1853 with the distinguished educator Horace Mann as its first president.

Antioch College was closed by Antioch University in 2008 but reopened in 2011 as an independent college.

In 1862, the Conway Colony — a group of about 30 freed slaves brought north by abolitionist Moncure D. Conway, the son of their former owner — settled in Yellow Springs.

In 1979, Yellow Springs became the smallest municipality in the United States to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Yellow Springs had 3,697 residents at the 2020 census, living in 1,806 households — with about 41% of households made up of people living alone, reflecting the village's many single residents and students.

Just east of the village lies Glen Helen Nature Preserve, a preserve of more than 1,000 acres given to Antioch College in 1929 by Hugh Taylor Birch in memory of his daughter Helen, and designated a National Natural Landmark in 1965.