On the edge of Richland County coming in from western Ohio there is a small ripple of hills in the landscape where the flat terrain of the great plains makes its first tentative rise above the horizon, and the land begins its slow ascent in small rolling hills. It will be hundreds of miles yet before those hills become mountains of the Allegheny, but every vertical must begin its rise from the horizontal somewhere, and for the Richland soil of America that first lookout view was at the tiny crossroads village of Corsica. The hills around Corsica werenât steep enough to keep farmers from plowing, but they were tall enough to give a view out over the vast expanse of ripened fields that autumn.