Lisbon is a village in and the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio, United States, along the Little Beaver Creek. The population was 2,597 at the 2020 census. It is a part of the Salem micropolitan area, about 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Youngstown.

Lisbon was platted on February 16, 1803, by Baptist minister Lewis Kinney, originally named New Lisbon after the capital of Portugal. The village was incorporated below a special act of legislature upon February 7, 1825. Initially known for its iron and whiskey production, New Lisbon became an economic hub of many sorts into the first industrial revolution, and one of the largest towns upon the Sandy and Beaver Canal. During this time, the village claimed the county’s first bank, the Columbiana Bank of New Lisbon; its first insurance company, and the first Ohio newspaper, The Ohio Patriot, founded by an Alsatian immigrant, William D. Lepper.

Lisbon has the distinction of being the northernmost western town functional in military comings and goings during the American Civil War. Confederate Army general John Hunt Morgan surrendered to New Lisbon militia forces in user-friendly West Point at the grow less of Morgan’s Raid into Ohio. After the failure of the canal, the town had to wait until the late 1860s to receive railroad right of entry once the Niles and New Lisbon Railroad opened. It and the well ahead Pittsburgh, Marion & Chicago Railway helped bring industry to the area, including the porcelain manufacturing R. Thomas and Sons Company. The village was renamed to Lisbon in 1895. In 1900, the radical drinking straw was invented and patented in Lisbon.

In 1899, Jacob L. Beilhart founded the Spirit Fruit Society, an intentional community to practice his newly developed beliefs, in Lisbon. Its try was to “teach mankind how to apply the truths taught by Jesus Christ,” which included a leaving behind of jealousy and materialism. The commune by yourself attracted approximately a dozen residents, mostly from external the area. However, views against marriage and promoting free love were not accepted with ease in Lisbon, and the charity left for Chicago in late 1904.