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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KH_fort-laurens_Bolivar-OH.html
The first and only fort of the Revolutionary War, established within the limits of what is now Ohio, was built here in December 1778 by General Lachlan McIntosh, as a defense against the British and Indians, and held until early in August 1779 whe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C8_the-salem-mission_Port-Washington-OH.html
Here, on April 6, 1780 during the American Revolutionary War, a contingent of Delaware Christian Indians, led by John Heckwelder, an assistant to Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, founded the last of five missions to occupy the Tuscarawas Vall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BX_the-new-schoenbrunn-mission_New-Philadelphia-OH.html
Here, on April 10, 1779 during the Revolutionary War, David Zeisberger founded one of the five Delaware Christian missions to occupy the Tuscarawas Valley between May 3, 1772 and September 8, 1781. Living at the Lichtenau mission near the Delaware…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BM_the-ohio-erie-canal-in-warwick-township_Gnadenhutten-OH.html
The greatest engineering achievement in Ohio during the pre-railroad era, the Ohio & Erie Canal traversed nearly six miles of Warwick Township. Completed in 1830, the canal brought prosperity to the village of Trenton (now Tuscarawas) and to towns…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BE_the-ohio-erie-canal-in-tuscarawas-county_New-Philadelphia-OH.html
1825-1913. Seeking an alternative transportation route to distant markets, many farmers and manufacturers in Ohio wanted to connect the Ohio River to Lake Erie with a canal. Beginning in Cleveland the Ohio-Erie Canal ran south, the length of the s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B3_the-history-of-tuscarawas-county-courthouses_New-Philadelphia-OH.html
When David Knisely, the founder of New Philadelphia, first arrived in the Tuscarawas Valley on August 27, 1803, he found a sparsely populated, pristine wilderness. Five years later the state legislature approved a bill organizing Tuscarawas County…