Radnor village lies among elevated knolls surrounded by broad fields and farms largely devoted to grain. In the early 1800s, many Welsh settlers came seeking their own land, freedom to worship in the church of their choice, and a good education for their children. In 1802, Welshman David Pugh purchased 4000 acres there for $2650, about $.75 an acre, and named the area after his home county of Radnorshire in Wales. The area became Radnor Township in 1803 with Ohio statehood. The first settlers were the Henry and Margaret Perry family in 1803. The first child born in the settlement was David Penry, Jr., and the second was Mary Jones (Warren) in the spring of 1807. The first death, Sarah Kyle, in 1807 led to a burial ground laid out in the Welsh manner with a hedge fence. Pugh designated a village plot called New Baltimore, but it never developed. Thomas Warren bought the plot in 1810 and opened the first tavern in 1811. Elijah Adams was the first Justice of the Peace. In 1821 the township had three log schoolhouses, and later the number grew to fourteen with about 300 students. In 1833, Edward Evans laid out a new village called Delhi. The cemetery was legally established in 1835 when Pugh sold 2½ acres to the trustees, and an elaborate Lych Gate was added later in 1911. School consolidation in 1870 created one central school, and further consolidation in 1962 formed the Buckeye Valley School district. By the late 1870s, the village name Delhi was changed to Radnor to meet railroad requirements for mail delivery. Radnor village once had five churches—Baptist, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopal—and the Baptist church, constituted in 1816, was the first. By 2000 only the Baptist and Congregational United Church of Christ remained. Radnor Township and Radnor Village remain a beautiful farming district of exceptional fertility and abundant farm production.