Photo History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

Photo History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

1890-1920

Tuscarawas County Courthouse

New Philadelphia 1890

Cornerstone for the Tuscarawas County courthouse was laid October 25, 1882 and built for $99,800.

Scr: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by Henry C. Hagloch, p. 104

County map from 1895 Atlas

Some Tuscarawas County statistics

1890 census population 46,618

1900 census population 53,751

1910 census population 57,035

569 square miles

In 1917, there were 3,634 farms in Tuscarawas County, 93% of the county area.

Of these farms, 75% were reported to be free of mortgage debt!

Scr: Rural Directory of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

In the 1880's, there was a brief crime wave, including murders and other acts of violence and the robbing of graves for cadavers for medicinal schools. The owner and editor of the weekly Iron Valley Reporter, W. W. Scott, printed vivid accounts of these crimes and the trials. This procedure had not been followed by other newspapers in the county before his time. As a result murder trial lawyers sought to bar from the jury anyone who had read Scott's articles. The objections became so routine in Common Pleas Court that Editor Scott prefaced his murder stories with this notation: "If you want to serve on the jury in this case don't read this article."

Scr: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by Henry C. Hagloch, p. 103, 104.

Oak Grove School, Canal Dover 1910

Oak Grove School is now the site of the current Dover High School.

Union Hospital, Canal Dover (abt 1912)

1900-Two women doctors, Dr. Martha Shatler of Dover and Dr. Nancy Richards of New Philadelphia, began plans for establishing a hospital in a former private residence on W. 4th St., Dover. This later became Union Hospital. In 1904, J. E. Reeves donated a 1 1/2 acre site on E. Iron Ave. to replace this hospital. Construction was started in 1908. [my great Aunt Ida Funk was head cook and general caretaker there when it was still on W. 4th.K]

Scr: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by Henry C. Hagloch, p. 117, 127.

1910-typhoid and diphtheria, county health department reported 36 typhoid cases in Dover.

1918-start of the influenza epidemic. [my ggrandfather and one of his daughters died of this. K.]

1927-polio epidemic with 147 cases and 13 deaths.

Scr: The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio by Henry C. Hagloch, p. 156.vvv

St. Paul's United Church of Christ

Port Washington c. 1911