Place:New Philadelphia, Tuscarawas, Ohio, United States

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NameNew Philadelphia
Alt namesPhiladelphiasource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS39012671
TypeCity
Coordinates40.489°N 81.447°W
Located inTuscarawas, Ohio, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
East Avenue Cemetery
Evergreen Burial Park
Jerusalem Church Cemetery
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New Philadelphia is a city in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, 71 miles south of Cleveland on the Tuscarawas River. It was first incorporated in 1808. Coal and clay are found in the vicinity. In the past, mining interests and the manufacturing of steel, canned goods, roofing tile, sewer pipe, bricks, vacuum cleaners, stovepipes, carriages, flour, brooms, and pressed, stamped, and enameled goods occupied the people. In 1900, 6,213 people lived here; in 1910 8,542; in 1920, 10,718; and in 1940, 12,328 people lived here. The population was 17,288 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Tuscarawas County.

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History

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The Moravian Church founded Schoenbrunn ("beautiful spring") in 1772 as a mission to the Delaware Indians. The settlement grew to include sixty dwellings and more than 300 inhabitants who drew up Ohio's first civil code and built its first Christian church and schoolhouse. Problems associated with the American Revolution prompted Schoenbrunn's closing in 1777.

The founder, John Knisely, returned to Ohio in 1804 with his family and 33 other pioneers, he also hired surveyor John Wells to plat out New Philadelphia in the same grid style as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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