Tuscarawas County, Ohio

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County in Ohio

Tuscarawas County
County
Tuscarawas County Courthouse
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Location within the U.S. state of Ohio
Ohio's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 40°27′N 81°28′W / 40.45°N 81.47°W / 40.45; -81.47
Country	United States
State	Ohio
Founded	March 15, 1808
Named for	Delaware Indian word variously translated as "old town" or "open mouth".
Seat	New Philadelphia
Largest city	New Philadelphia
Area
• Total	571 sq mi (1,480 km)
• Land	568 sq mi (1,470 km)
• Water	3.8 sq mi (10 km) 0.7%
Population
• Total	93,263
• Density	160/sq mi (60/km)
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional districts	6th, 12th
Website	www.co.tuscarawas.oh.us

Tuscarawas County (/ˌtʌskəˈrɑːwəs/ TUS-kə-RAH-wəs) is a county located in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 93,263. Its county seat is New Philadelphia. Its name is a Delaware Indian word variously translated as "old town" or "open mouth". Tuscarawas County comprises the New Philadelphia–Dover, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Cleveland–Akron–Canton, OH Combined Statistical Area.

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 Moravian missionaries set out from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to set up a mission in the Tuscarawas Valley. Christian Frederick Post, David Zeisberger, and John Heckewelder met with Chief Netawatwees of the western Delaware Indians, also known as the "Lenape". He invited them to the tribal village he had founded, Gekelemukpechunk (present-day Newcomerstown, Ohio). He granted the missionaries permission to build a cabin near the junction of the Sandy Creek and Tuscarawas River, in present-day Stark County and begin evangelizing the natives. While they were successful in baptizing dozens of converts, they were forced to abandon the mission in 1763 during the French and Indian War (part of the Seven Years' War).

Again, at the request of Chief Netawatwees in 1771, David Zeisberger returned to found additional missions in the Tuscarawas Valley. In the spring of 1772, near the present site of New Philadelphia, Ohio, Zeisberger, along with five converted Indian families established the mission of Schoenbrunn (beautiful spring), also known as Welhik Tuppeek (best spring). They built a school house and a chapel. In August of that year, John Heckawelder brought an additional 250 converted Christian Delawares into the village.

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.

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 Lieutenant Colonel David Williamson raided the villages and garrisoned the Indians in the village of Gnadenhütten, accusing them of taking part in raids into Pennsylvania. Although the Delawares rejected the charges as they were pacifist Christians, the militia held a council and voted to kill them. The next morning on March 8, the militia tied up the Indians, stunned them with mallet blows to the head, and killed them with fatal scalping cuts. In all, the militia murdered and scalped 28 men, 29 women, and 39 children. They piled the bodies of the Moravian Christian Lenape and Moravian Christian Mahicans in the mission buildings and burned the village down. They also burned the other abandoned Moravian villages in the area.

This action, which came to be known as the Gnadenhutten massacre, caused an outright frontier war to break out between the Delawares and the Americans. After several years of ongoing campaigns by the natives to terrorize and keep out further American settlers, a brutal campaign by US General "Mad Anthony" Wayne from Fort Washington (now Cincinnati) was carried out in late 1793, eventually resulting in the Treaty of Greenville being signed in 1795 between the US government and the local natives. The Treaty ceded the eastern ⅔ of current-day Ohio to white settlers and once again opened up the territory for white settlement.

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.

Tuscarawas County was formed from Muskingum County on February 15, 1808.

In the late 1820s, Tuscarawas County was chosen to be on the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal, a man-made waterway linking Lake Erie (via Cleveland) to the Ohio River (via Portsmouth, Ohio). Construction from Massillon, Ohio to Canal Dover, Ohio was completed in 1829. Construction from Canal Dover, Ohio to Newark, Ohio was completed in 1830. A total of 15 locks were built in Tuscarawas County, entering the county line on an aqueduct north of Zoar, Ohio on Lock 7 to Newcomerstown, Ohio, exiting the county below Lock 21. In 1848, the feeder Sandy and Beaver Canal was completed, linking Bolivar, Ohio to the Ohio River at Glasgow, Pennsylvania. With the rise of railroads, and a massive flood in 1913, the canal system was abandoned. Three years later, the city of Canal Dover shortened its name Dover to 1916.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 571 square miles (1,480 km), of which 568 square miles (1,470 km) is land and 3.8 square miles (9.8 km) (0.71%) is water.

Adjacent counties

Stark County (north)
Carroll County (northeast)
Harrison County (southeast)
Guernsey County (south)
Coshocton County (southwest)
Holmes County (northwest)

Demographics

Historical population
Census	Pop.	%±
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 1790-1960 1900-1990 1990-2000 2020

2000 census

As of the census of 2000, there were 90,914 people, 35,653 households, and 25,313 families residing in the county. The population density was 160 inhabitants per square mile (62/km). There were 38,113 housing units at an average density of 67 units per square mile (26/km). The racial makeup of the county was 97.87% White, 0.73% Black or African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.24% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 0.73% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.71% of the population. 95.3% spoke English, 1.3% German and 1.1% Spanish as their first language.

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 per capita income for the county was $17,276. About 7.20% of families and 9.40% of the population were below the poverty line, including 12.20% of those under age 18 and 7.80% of those age 65 or over.

2010 census

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 92,582 people, 36,965 households, and 25,318 families residing in the county. The population density was 163.1 inhabitants per square mile (63.0/km). There were 40,206 housing units at an average density of 70.8 units per square mile (27.3 units/km). The racial makeup of the county was 96.6% white, 0.8% black or African American, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% American Indian, 0.2% Pacific islander, 0.7% from other races, and 1.2% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 1.9% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 38.0% were German, 16.0% were Irish, 10.9% were English, 7.7% were American, and 7.6% were Italian. 94.7% spoke English, 1.4% Spanish, 1.1% German, and 2.0% another West Germanic language.

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.

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 poverty line, including 17.7% of those under age 18 and 10.2% of those age 65 or over.

Amish and Mennonite communities

In 2020, the Amish and Mennonite population was 3,496 or 3.7% of the total population

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.

United States presidential election results for Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Year	Republican		Democratic		Third party(ies)
Year	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
2024	30,652	70.94%	12,032	27.84%	527	1.22%
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

Villages

Townships

Census-designated places

Unincorporated communities

Notable people

Samuel G. Cosgrove, sixth governor of the state of Washington
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.

References

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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.
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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

Places adjacent to Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Holmes County

Stark County

Carroll County

Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Coshocton County

Guernsey County

Harrison County

v t e Municipalities and communities of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States
County seat: New Philadelphia
Cities	Dover New Philadelphia Uhrichsville	Map of Ohio highlighting Tuscarawas County
Villages	Baltic‡ Barnhill Bolivar Dennison Gnadenhutten Midvale Mineral City Newcomerstown Parral Port Washington Roswell Stone Creek Strasburg Sugarcreek Tuscarawas Zoar
Townships	Auburn Bucks Clay Dover Fairfield Franklin Goshen Jefferson Lawrence Mill Oxford Perry Rush Salem Sandy Sugar Creek Union Warren Warwick Washington Wayne York
CDPs	Dundee Sandyville Wilkshire Hills
Unincorporated communities	Barrs Mills Bernice Blackband Columbia Eastport Gilmore Glasgow Goshen Hartwood Lock Seventeen Mount Tabor New Cumberland Newport Peoli Postboy Ragersville Rockford Somerdale Stillwater Wainwright West Chester Winfield Wolf Yorktown Zoarville
Ghost town	Three Legs Town
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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