Bowling Green was established in 1832 when Elisha Martindale came down the old aboriginal trail toward Haskin's Place and entered a claim to 40 acres of land near where the Ferris Myrice Property is located, across from Conneaut School on Haskins Road. Over the next 10 years settlement clustered on and along of series of sand ridges and knolls near the intersection of Napoleon Road and South Main Street. Near the south end of this settlement stood the Walker-Stauffer cabin, which housed the first post office. According to legend the City received its name when the postal carrier, Joseph Gordon, named the post office after his hometown, Bowling Green, Kentucky.