title: Symmes
text: # Symmes
  
  Symmes can refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * John Cleves Symmes, colonel in the Continental Army and New Jersey representative at the Continental Congress
  * John Cleves Symmes, Jr., originator of the Hollow Earth theory
  * Zechariah Symmes, Puritan minister in colonial Charlestown, Massachusetts
  
  ## Places
  
  * Symmes Creek in southeastern Ohio
  * Symmes Mission Chapel in Fairfield, Ohio
  * Symmes Purchase in southwestern Ohio
  * Symmes Township, Edgar County, Illinois
  * Symmes Township, Hamilton County, Ohio
  * Symmes Township, Lawrence County, Ohio
  * Symmes Valley High School in Willow Wood, Ohio
  