PERRY COUNTY OHIO - Hopewell Township History (published 1883)
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Hopewell Township (in 1883) encompassed the north central 1/3 rd of the
portion of Perry Co. that bordered Licking Co., lying between Thorn and
Madison townships with southern borders on Reading and Clayton
townships.   It included the town of Glenford.  The township lies north
of Somerset.

"Hopewell is a full congressional township, of six mikes square, as
originally surveyed. It lies in the Muskingum valley, and is watered by
the north branch of Moxahala (commonly called Jonathan's Creek,) and
tributaries.  It is a good township of land, the greater part of it
sufficiently rolling to afford good drainage.  The principal portion of
is in a good state of cultivation and is chiefly devoted to grain, stock
raising, and wool growing.  Considerable fruit is also grown in certain
sections of it.  A small portion of it is hilly."  (from History of
Fairfield and Perry Counties, A. A. Graham, 1883)