Tuscarawas County, Ohio

1772
David Zeisberger, leader in 1772 of Moravian missionaries who founded the first church, schoolhouse and settlements with codified laws in what was then known as the Ohio country. This settlement was in Tuscarawas county known as His flock moved from Pennsylvania.

1820s to 1850s
Major transportion advances open up the county, whose hills were rich in iron, coal, clay.
 * 1820s- opening up of 5500 acres of the north of the county to 300 german settlers that formed the Separatist Society of Zoar, a pietistic group that left Germany to pursue a movement known as Communalism. It disbanded in 1898.
 * 1825- County is bisected by the Ohio Erie Canal
 * 1850s- County is criss crossed by railroads.