TUSCARAWS COUNTY OHIO HISTORY & GENERAL INFORAMTION
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TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO

DATE CREATED - 1808 
PARENT COUNTY - Muskingum 
COUNTY SEAT - New Philadelphia 

SURROUNDED BY:
NORTH - Stark County
NORTHEAST - Carroll County
SOUTHEAST - Harrison County
SOUTH - Guernsey County
SOUTHWEST - Coshocton County
NORTHWEST - Holmes County

Tuscarawas County Genealogy Society Library & Archives
Tuscarawas County Genealogy Society
http://web1.tusco.net/tuscgen/society.htm
P. O. Box 141
New Philadelphia, Ohio 44663-0141

The Genealogy Library
307 Center Street
Dennison, Ohio

OTHER INFORMATION

Tuscarawas County was established in 1808. "Tuscarawas" is an Indian
word meaning "open mouth". Coal and fire-clay deposits have been found in
the county.

The early history of the county is involved with German-speaking
Moravian missionaries who came to Christianize the Indians. New
Philadelphia is the county seat and headquarters from the Muskingum
Watershed Conservacy District and home of Tuscarawas County's branch of
Kent State University.

Principle industries are; stone-clay-glass, metals, machinery,
rubber, chemicals, food, centrifugal castings, conveyors, hand tools,
ventilating fans, dairy products, and clay.

Probate Judge has birth, marriage, death & probate records; Clerk of
Courts has divorce records, civil court records from 1808, immigration
& naturalization records from 1907; County Recorder has land records.


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