Someone asked about Oreville recently. Oreville is in Shenango Township - off Old Pittsburgh Road between Kate Houk Road and Harmony Baptist Road. The book, McConnell's Mill Yesteryear and Other Stories by Dale Currie (1990) has a few references to it: "John Warner discovered a bank of red ore which in some places reached a thickness of twenty-two feet. Charles Rhodes had a big mine on his property. the largest bank of all was the "Big Bank" owned by Grannis, Houk & Co. and was located on the farm now owned by Herman Lechner. The J. R. Sherard farm, located next to Big Bank also had one. These ore banks created a lot of work and a small town sprang up which became known as Oreville. Its boundaries start where the Harmony Baptist Church Road intersects the Old Pittsburgh Road and extended to the Wayne township line and west to Chewton. The town sprang up around where Mr. Lechner's buildings now stand. Where the farm house stands was a boarding house and farther back was the mule barn. It is interesting to note that there were as many as one hundred horses and mules used to haul ore to different furnaces. Furnaces hauled to were Wilroy, Lawrence, In Hell's Hollow and Wampum. There may have been others. Many of the teams were owned by members of the Houk family. They were working the Big Bank." Hope that helps, Tami