Springboro operates and maintains three recreational parks totaling 147.5 acres and one neighborhood park. Combined, these well-kept areas offers four tennis courts, seven soccer fields, two basketball courts, nine baseball fields, two sand volleyball courts, four shelter houses for picnics, and three playground facilities. Springboro also has its own prestigious 18-hole public golf course made up of 210 luxurious acres of hills, trees, creeks and ponds. Heatherwoode offers private instruction, junior golf schools, ladies groups, gift certificates and season passes.

The history of the area dates back to approximately 100 B.C. The Hopewell Indians, known as the "Mound-Building" Indians, occupied portions of Warren County constructing earthworks and stoneworks up to 25 feet in height. The most renowned of their areas is Fort Ancient, but the tribe roamed throughout the area.

Around 1200 A.D. the group known to historians as the Fort Ancient Indians re-occupied the Hopewell sites. They were primarily farmers, and after a few centuries, they too died out. When the first Europeans arrived to explore the territory, the Indian peoples occupying the land had no knowledge of their predecessors. Although no current history supports it, a large number of Clearcreek Township residents of the late 1800s remember stories of their grandparents that there was a large Indian settlement east of present-day Springboro. There is some substance to the story; an inordinate number of Indian artifacts, particularly "points" -- arrowheads and spearheads-- are still being found in a broad area from Route 73 to the banks of Clear Creek.

Two treaties affected all of the Indians in the Ohio Country. The Treaty of Fort McIntosh (1785) deeded certain areas to the Ohio tribes for hunting and fishing. The Treaty of Greenville (1795) effectively relegated them to restricted territories and ended hostilities between them and early settlers. Americans had taken control of the territory after George Rogers Clark and his troops defeated the British at Vincennes, Indiana, in 1779. Virginia and Connecticut retained reservations of territory in what would eventually become Ohio.

Nine original major land surveys subdivided Ohio lands. The "Between the Miamis" survey delineated the Clear Creek Valley. Settlers had already entered the Clear Creek area by that time. The earliest were here by 1796, barely months after the Treaty of Greenville.

Clearcreek Township was created in October, 1815, from portions of Franklin and Wayne Townships, two of the original four political subdivisions in Warren County.

Warren County, named after General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, had been established in 1803 as one of Ohio's original 17 counties. Part of the Northwest Territory, Ohio became the 17th state in the Union as part of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.

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