Tuscarawas County, Ohio
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Tuscarawas County (
History
For years, European-American colonists on the East Coast did not know much about the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains except for reports from a few explorers and fur traders who ventured into the area. In 1750, Christopher Gist of the Ohio Land Company explored the Tuscarawas Valley. His report of the area hinted at some natural riches and friendly American Indians.
In 1761
Again, at the request of Chief
In late summer 1772, they established a second settlement, roughly 10 miles away from Schoenbrunn, called Gnadenhütten (cabins of grace). On October 17, 1772, Zeisberger conducted the first religious service at Gnadenhutten. In 1776, Chief Netawatwes donated land for another settlement, Lichtenau (meadow of light), near present-day Coshocton, then the principal Delaware village in the region.[6]
The American Revolutionary War brought the demise of these first settlements. The Delawares, who at the time populated much of eastern Ohio, were divided over their loyalties, with many in the west allied with the British out of Fort Detroit and many in the east allied with the Americans out of Fort Pitt. Delawares were involved in skirmishes against both sides, but by 1781 the American sense was that the Delawares were allying with the British. In response, Colonel Daniel Brodhead of the American forces led an expedition out of Fort Pitt and on April 19, 1781, destroyed the settlement of Coshocton. Surviving residents fled to the north. Colonel Brodhead's forces left the Delawares at the other Moravian mission villages unmolested, but the actions set the stage for raised tensions in the area.
In September 1781, British forces and Indian allies, primarily Wyandot and Delaware, forced the Christian Indians and missionaries from the remaining Moravian villages. The Indian allies took their prisoners further west toward Lake Erie to a new village, called Captive Town, on the Sandusky River. The British took the missionaries David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder under guard back to Fort Detroit, where the two men were tried (but eventually acquitted) on charges of treason against the British Crown.
The Indians at Captive Town were going hungry because of insufficient rations, and in February 1782, more than 100 returned to their old Moravian villages to harvest the crops and collect the stored food they had been forced to leave behind. In early March 1782, 160 Pennsylvania militia led by
This action, which came to be known as the
In October 1798, David Zeisberger, the same Moravian missionary who had founded many of the original missions in the 1770s, returned to the Tuscarawas Valley to found a new mission, Goshen, from where he continued his work to evangelize the local natives with the Christian gospel. Over the next several years, farmer settlers from Pennsylvania came trickling into the area, and by 1808, the first permanent settlement, New Philadelphia, was founded near the Goshen mission. After the War of 1812, Goshen declined as a mission until it was disbanded in 1824.[9]
Tuscarawas County was formed from Muskingum County on February 15, 1808.[10]
In the late 1820s, Tuscarawas County was chosen to be on the route of the
Geography
According to the
Adjacent counties
- Stark County (north)
- Carroll County (northeast)
- Harrison County (southeast)
- Guernsey County (south)
- Coshocton County (southwest)
- Holmes County (northwest)
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
---|---|---|---|
1810 | 3,045 | — | |
1820 | 8,328 | 173.5% | |
1830 | 14,298 | 71.7% | |
1840 | 25,631 | 79.3% | |
1850 | 31,761 | 23.9% | |
1860 | 32,463 | 2.2% | |
1870 | 33,840 | 4.2% | |
1880 | 40,198 | 18.8% | |
1890 | 46,618 | 16.0% | |
1900 | 53,751 | 15.3% | |
1910 | 57,035 | 6.1% | |
1920 | 63,578 | 11.5% | |
1930 | 68,193 | 7.3% | |
1940 | 68,816 | 0.9% | |
1950 | 70,320 | 2.2% | |
1960 | 76,789 | 9.2% | |
1970 | 77,211 | 0.5% | |
1980 | 84,614 | 9.6% | |
1990 | 84,090 | −0.6% | |
2000 | 90,914 | 8.1% | |
2010 | 92,582 | 1.8% | |
2020 | 93,263 | 0.7% | |
U.S. Decennial Census[17] 1790-1960[18] 1900-1990[19] 1990-2000[20] 2020 [3] |
2000 census
As of the census
There were 35,653 households, out of which 32.30% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.10% were married couples living together, 9.30% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.00% were non-families. 24.90% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.52 and the average family size was 3.01.
In the county, the age distribution of the population shows 25.40% under the age of 18, 8.00% from 18 to 24, 28.10% from 25 to 44, 23.60% from 45 to 64, and 15.00% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 95.10 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.40 males.
The median income for a household in the county was $35,489, and the median income for a family was $41,677. Males had a median income of $31,963 versus $20,549 for females. The
2010 census
As of the
Of the 36,965 households, 30.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.0% were married couples living together, 9.8% had a female householder with no husband present, 31.5% were non-families, and 26.6% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.47 and the average family size was 2.97. The median age was 40.9 years.[22]
The median income for a household in the county was $42,081 and the median income for a family was $51,330. Males had a median income of $40,490 versus $27,193 for females. The per capita income for the county was $20,536. About 9.2% of families and 12.8% of the population were below the
Amish and Mennonite communities
In 2020, The Amish and Mennonite population was 3,496 or 3.7% of the total population [27]
Politics
Prior to 1912, Tuscarawas County was a Democratic Party stronghold in presidential elections. But starting with the 1916 election, the county had become a bellwether county until 2012, only backing losing candidates in 1960 and 1968. Starting with the 2012 election, the county began to swing markedly to the right, and is now solidly Republican.
Year | Republican | Democratic | Third party | |||
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No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |
2020 | 30,458 | 69.09% | 12,889 | 29.24% | 740 | 1.68% |
2016 | 26,918 | 64.70% | 12,188 | 29.29% | 2,500 | 6.01% |
2012 | 22,242 | 53.35% | 18,407 | 44.15% | 1,044 | 2.50% |
2008 | 20,454 | 47.50% | 21,498 | 49.93% | 1,105 | 2.57% |
2004 | 23,829 | 55.54% | 18,853 | 43.94% | 224 | 0.52% |
2000 | 19,549 | 52.67% | 15,879 | 42.78% | 1,690 | 4.55% |
1996 | 13,388 | 38.52% | 15,244 | 43.86% | 6,123 | 17.62% |
1992 | 13,179 | 35.72% | 14,787 | 40.08% | 8,928 | 24.20% |
1988 | 17,145 | 54.28% | 14,185 | 44.90% | 259 | 0.82% |
1984 | 19,366 | 59.13% | 13,149 | 40.14% | 239 | 0.73% |
1980 | 15,708 | 52.21% | 12,117 | 40.27% | 2,261 | 7.52% |
1976 | 14,279 | 44.84% | 16,880 | 53.01% | 682 | 2.14% |
1972 | 18,413 | 59.07% | 12,255 | 39.32% | 501 | 1.61% |
1968 | 14,102 | 43.44% | 15,617 | 48.11% | 2,742 | 8.45% |
1964 | 9,962 | 29.66% | 23,623 | 70.34% | 0 | 0.00% |
1960 | 20,637 | 56.20% | 16,083 | 43.80% | 0 | 0.00% |
1956 | 19,876 | 60.63% | 12,908 | 39.37% | 0 | 0.00% |
1952 | 18,620 | 53.27% | 16,332 | 46.73% | 0 | 0.00% |
1948 | 11,873 | 44.27% | 14,799 | 55.19% | 145 | 0.54% |
1944 | 14,357 | 47.01% | 16,184 | 52.99% | 0 | 0.00% |
1940 | 14,675 | 43.57% | 19,004 | 56.43% | 0 | 0.00% |
1936 | 10,317 | 31.30% | 21,991 | 66.71% | 657 | 1.99% |
1932 | 12,369 | 41.36% | 16,648 | 55.67% | 888 | 2.97% |
1928 | 20,494 | 74.34% | 6,805 | 24.68% | 269 | 0.98% |
1924 | 13,573 | 56.97% | 5,566 | 23.36% | 4,686 | 19.67% |
1920 | 11,908 | 51.96% | 10,167 | 44.36% | 844 | 3.68% |
1916 | 5,404 | 38.96% | 7,608 | 54.84% | 860 | 6.20% |
1912 | 3,417 | 27.34% | 4,978 | 39.84% | 4,101 | 32.82% |
1908 | 6,717 | 47.29% | 6,775 | 47.69% | 713 | 5.02% |
1904 | 7,203 | 55.76% | 4,979 | 38.55% | 735 | 5.69% |
1900 | 6,355 | 47.19% | 6,867 | 50.99% | 245 | 1.82% |
1896 | 6,235 | 47.15% | 6,898 | 52.16% | 92 | 0.70% |
1892 | 4,746 | 42.97% | 5,715 | 51.74% | 584 | 5.29% |
1888 | 4,730 | 45.23% | 5,484 | 52.44% | 243 | 2.32% |
1884 | 4,394 | 44.96% | 5,215 | 53.36% | 165 | 1.69% |
1880 | 4,096 | 45.33% | 4,844 | 53.61% | 96 | 1.06% |
1876 | 3,574 | 43.95% | 4,545 | 55.89% | 13 | 0.16% |
1872 | 3,178 | 46.96% | 3,586 | 52.99% | 3 | 0.04% |
1868 | 3,145 | 47.82% | 3,432 | 52.18% | 0 | 0.00% |
1864 | 3,049 | 49.47% | 3,114 | 50.53% | 0 | 0.00% |
1860 | 3,136 | 51.72% | 2,846 | 46.93% | 82 | 1.35% |
1856 | 3,007 | 52.93% | 2,656 | 46.75% | 18 | 0.32% |
Communities
Cities
- Dover
- New Philadelphia (county seat)
- Uhrichsville
Villages
Townships
Census-designated places
Unincorporated communities
Notable people
- sixth governor of the state of Washington[29]
- William Clarke Quantrill, Confederate guerrilla leader during the American Civil War.
- Cy Young, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
- Woody Hayes, former Ohio State football coach.
See also
References
- ^ "Ohio County Profiles: Tuscarawas County" (PDF). Ohio Department of Development. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 21, 2007. Retrieved April 28, 2007.
- ^ a b "The Export of Pennsylvania Placenames, William A. Russ, Jr". Retrieved May 2, 2007.
- ^ a b 2020 census
- ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ^ "Tuscarawas County data". Ohio State University Extension Data Center. Retrieved April 28, 2007.[dead link]
- ^ Guide to Tuscarawas County, Federal Writers Project of Ohio Work Projects Administration, F.C. Harrington, Florence Kerr, Carl Watson, 1939
- ^ Stewart, G.T.; Gallup, C.H. (1899). The Firelands Pioneer. Firelands Historical Society. p. 246.
In the village cemetery, where lie the dead of a century, stands a huge granite monument. This graceful shaft marks the resting place of ninety Christian Indian martyrs whose ruthless butchery furnishes one of the darkest pages in American history.
- ^ "1782: Village of Moravian Delaware Indians Massacred". Indian Country Today. September 13, 2018. Retrieved August 21, 2021.
- ^ Ohio Annals, C.H. Mitchener, 1876.
- ^ "Historical Collections of Ohio, Henry Howe". 1888. Archived from the original on January 19, 2012. Retrieved April 27, 2010.
- ^ "Timeline | Articles and Essays | Captain Pearl R. Nye: Life on the Ohio and Erie Canal | Digital Collections | Library of Congress". Library of Congress.
- ^ "Tuscarawas County / 5-79 the Ohio-Erie Canal 1825-1913 / The Ohio-Erie Canal in Tuscarawas County 1825-1913 | Remarkable Ohio".
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- ^ Forstall, Richard L., ed. (March 27, 1995). "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved February 11, 2015.
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- Census.gov. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ a b c "DP-1 Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
- ^ "Population, Housing Units, Area, and Density: 2010 - County". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved December 27, 2015.
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- ^ "Tuscarawas County, Ohio - County Membership Report (2020)". The Association of Religion Data Archives.
- ^ Leip, David. "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
- ^ "Washington Governor Samuel G. Cosgrove". National Governors Association. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved October 10, 2012.
Further reading
- J.W. Cummins and Earl E. Sanderson, The Water Resources of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Columbus, OH: Ohio Water Resources Board, 1947.
- C. Edward DeGraw, The Only Game in Town: A History of Baseball in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1867-1955. Tuscarawas County Historical Society, c. 1998.
- Federal Writers Project, Guide to Tuscarawas County. New Philadelphia, OH: Tucker Printing Co., 1939.
- Henry Howe, History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1808-1889. Knightstown, IN: Bookmark, 1977.
- Herbert P Lohrman and Ralph H Romig, Valley of the Tuscarawas: A History of Tuscarawas County. Dover, OH: Ohio Hills Publishers, 1972.
- J.B. Mansfield, The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, etc.; General and Local Statistics; Military Record; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; History of the Northwest Territory; History of Ohio; Miscellaneous Matters, etc., etc. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1884.
- Fred Miller, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
- Lloyd E. Mizer, History of the Schools in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. n.c.: Ohio Retired Teachers Association. Tuscarawas County Chapter, 1993.
- Ohio Retired Teachers Association, Tuscarawas County Chapter, History of Early Tuscarawas County Schools. New Philadelphia, OH: Printing Dept., Buckeye Joint Vocational School, 1978.
- Earl P. Olmstead, A Documentary History of the Ohio & Erie Canal, Tuscarawas County, Ohio. New Philadelphia, OH: Tuscarawas County Historical Society and the Tusc-Kent Archives, Kent State University, 1996.
- Edwin S. Rhodes, The Centennial History and Atlas of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1908. New Philadelphia, OH: Tuscarawas Centennial Association, 1908.
- Julius Miller Richardson, A Brief History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio. n.c.: n.p., n.d. [1990s].
- Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society, Tuscarawas County, Ohio Cemeteries. New Philadelphia, OH: Tuscarawas County Genealogical Society, 1981.
External links
- Tuscarawas County Government's website
- Tuscarawas County Convention & Visitors Bureau's website
- Kent State University The Olmstead Collection, Tuscarawas County Historical Society
- Ohio and Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary