Lower Salem is a village in Washington County, Ohio, United States. The population was 86 at the 2010 census. The village is house to a number of local businesses as skillfully as a bank attached to the state office and a volunteer flare department next to the Salem Township Cemetery. Salem-Liberty Elementary School sits north of State Route 821 opposite the East Fork of Duck Creek west of the town’s corporation limit and serves as the elementary studious for greater than 100 students of the Fort Frye Local School District. The municipal building, adjacent to the Bob Hausser Community Park, served as an outpost of the Washington County Sheriff’s Office during the to the fore 2000s. A number of unincorporated villages allowance Lower Salem’s reveal office. These append Warner, Dalzell, Bonn, Harriettsville, and Germantown. The Place is home to a number of churches. The unaided one within city limits, however, is the Lower Salem United Methodist Church. Until a deal was struck following the town council in 2015, meetings of the Salem-Liberty Homemakers/Lower Salem Boys 4-H Club were held in the church’s basement. This work is the upshot of the consolidation of a club made in the works predominantly of members of Salem-Liberty’s FHA (FCCLA) Organization in imitation of it served as a high school and the Lower Salem Boys Club which was normal in 1920 and is the oldest involved 4-H club in the divulge of Ohio. Lower Salem was once home to a hotel, a doctor’s office, an armory, Wagner’s General Store, and a gas station and auto parts shop. While all of these buildings remain standing, all have considering out of business. The general addition has been home to a number of startup businesses, but none have survived much longer than a year.

Lower Salem had its Begin when a corduroy road (called the Old Plank Road) was built through it to Marietta. It has a proclaim office. The town site was not laid out until 1850, and was decided predominantly by German immigrants.

Lower Salem is located at 39°33′45″N 81°23′42″W / 39.56250°N 81.39500°W / 39.56250; -81.39500 (39.562423, -81.394934).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.06 square miles (0.16 km), all land.