First Houses, Mills, Store in
Tuscarawas County
The first buildings erected in the
present county of Tuscarawas were, so far as known, as follows:
1760, Thomas
Calhoun, trader's house, on the west bank of the Tuscarawas,
near Bolivar
1701,
Christian Post's dwelling house, on the east bank of the
Tuscarawas, near Bolivar
1763, James
O'Harn's trader house, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas, near
Bolivar
1772, David
Zeisberger's mission houses, on the east bank of the Tuscarawas,
at Schoenbrunn
1773, John
Christian Roth, and others, houses at Gnadenhutten
1774, James
Campbell and others, tracer house, at present New Comerstown
1770, D.
Zeisberger and others, houses on the west bank of the
Tuscarawas, New Schoenbrunn
1780, J,
Heckewelder and others, houses on the west bank of the
Tuscarawas, at Salem
1796, Charles
Stevens, settler, in the present township of Fairfield
1797, C.
Clewell and John Carr and others, at present Gnadenhutten
1798,
Mortimer Benger and others, dweller's at Goshen
1707, Jacob
Bush, Paul Greer, Peter Edmonds, Ezra and Peter Warner, and
others of the settlers
1700, David
Peter opened a store at Gnadenhutten for Jacob Recksecker and H.
Bollinger brought teams with goods for the store
1800, Lewis
Huebner, pastor's house and Beesheba church, on the west side of
the river, near lock number seventeen
1804, John
Kinsey and George Stiffer built near New Philadelphia
1805, Philip
Menech built on the present Gooden farm
1805, John
Hull built the first house in New Philadelphia
1807, Jacob
Uhrich built the first mid (water) at Uhrichville
1772, '73 -
'74, the first horse-mills were put up in by the missionaries
1807, the
first tavern built in New Philadelphia was by Leninger
The first
Still House in the county was put up by Gabriel Cryder, on the
west side of the Tuscarawas, about equal distant between New
Philadelphia and Dover
A Mr.
Vanrouff built the first ark, or grain-boat, at the canal at
Dover; George Sluthour did the carpenter work.
1823, Amos
St. Clair built the first bridge across the river, at Dover
Online Resources
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Ohio AHGP
Source: Ohio Annals, Historic Events,
Tuscarawas and Muskingum Valleys, The State of Ohio, Edited by
C. H. Mitchener, 1876
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