Not so very long ago, the rolling green hills that surround the village of Seville were a favored hunting ground of the Delaware Indians. In 1816, Henry Hosmer, far from his native New England, traded two caskets of gunpowder to the Delaware for a house. It was not long before the natural beauty and fertility of the land lured other hardy pioneer families from their perilous westward trek to settle in what would later become one of the most picturesque villages in Medina County.