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From the Historical Archivesof the

Paulding County Progress

Sixteenth in a Series

July 29, 2015

Written by Melinda Krick

Features

“A Time Line of History”....... 2

Timeline - Part 2 ....... 4 

Dates chronicle county history

 

VISIONS OF PAULDING COUNTY015 Edition

Copyright © 2015 by the Paulding County Progress.rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form

without permission in writing from the publisher.Visions of Paulding County: From the Historical Archives of the Paulding

County Progress,Volume 16 is published by the Paulding County Progress,

P.O. Box 180, Paulding OH 45879; email progress@progressnewspaper.orgWeb site: www.progressnewspaper.org

 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSThe Visions could not be produced every year withou

the aid of many people. This year, our thanks go to JohPaulding Historical Society and Paulding County Carn

Library (two of our county’s greatest assets!), plus oucounty recorder’s oce and the county engineer’s oc  For more information on local history, visit the librar genealogy section, which has a wealth of material, inclubooks, indexes, a vertical le, microlm and a knowledge

and helpful sta. Visit www.pauldingcountylibrary.oror look them up on Facebook.

The historical museum is our “best-kept secret” andcontains three buildings full of displays and artifacts

covering all eras of county history. Visitwww.johnpauldinghistoricalsociety.org or their Facebook p

TO PURCHASE EXTRA COPIES  Visions of Paulding County: From the Historical Archof the Paulding County Progress, Volume 16 is publish by the Paulding County Progress newspaper. A copy

this publication is included free in the July 29, 201edition of the Progress for the enjoyment of our readWe have a limited supply of additional copies, whmay be purchased for $2 each at the Progress oc

113 S. Williams St., Paulding. Copies can be obtain

 by mail; call our oce at 419-399-4015 for pricingInquire about back issues of our Visions ,

published every year since 2000.

ABOUT THE COVER

2015 marks the 16th year for Visions.

The cover reects the time period

covered in this year’s edition, after the

opening of the canals in the mid-1840s

through the late 19th century. Many

pioneer families put down roots in the

Paulding County clay. This undatedphotograph, provided courtesy of the

 John Paulding Historical Society, shows

a family reunion in front of a farmhouse.

The Pearl Hardesty family donated the

photo to the museum. Below are items

related to family life in those days – two

child’s school souvenirs (privatecollection), a Paulding County Fair

membership ticket, postal card mailed

from a canal town and a McGuey’s

Reader from a school (three items from

 JPHS). The silver pocket watch with

chain and winding key was made by

the Wallingford Watch Company circa

1860-80. It was provided courtesy of

Fessel Jewelers in Paulding.

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PLANTING CUT FLOWERS’

hisyear’s Visions  is a continuation of the timelinestarted in Volume 15. Part 2 of this chronology

ns after the opening of the canals in the 1840s and follows

ounty’s explosive growth through the end of the century. The

mpy wilderness was home to just over 1,000 residents in 1840;

nt 50 years later, nearly 26,000 people lived within our borders.canals provided settlers with access to market grain, timber and

ucts made from timber. As more and more timber was cleared

the land began to be drained, more settlers and speculators

ed in to seek their fortunes. They built roads and bridges,

ols and churches and homesteads. Railroads started appearing

s the landscape, and new towns began springing up along

routes. Soon, communities began talking about sidewalks,

business “blocks”, street lights and paved roads. It was like a

mtown, but on a countywide level.

reading the dates of when towns were platted and post oces

ed, one notices a pattern in development. The rst communities

along the rivers, then along the major streams. Later, villages

planned along the canals. When the railroads began to appear,

owns already along the routes began to thrive, while the canal

ns without railroad access began fading. Optimistic land owners,

hopes of founding an important commercial center, had a

eyor draw up a plan for a new town along a rail line and began

ng lots.

any families came here, attracted by the cheap land and plenty

pportunity, hoping to use what we now call “sweat equity” to

the land and build a home and farm with their own hands. Theships and years of ceaseless labor took their toll on many, as early

teries can attest. Some prevailed and their descendants still live

today. Some made good, sold their farm or business, and moved

new places. Others gave up and left to try their luck elsewhere.

avid McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian,

gave a speech in Washington, D.C., that touched on the

ortance and relevance of history to each of us. He quoted former

arian of Congress Daniel Boorstin: “Trying to plan for the future

out a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut owers.”

cCullough noted, “One might also say that history is not about

ast. If you think about it, no one ever lived in the past. … Theyin the present. The dierence is it was their present, not ours.

were caught up in the living moment exactly as we are, and

no more certainty of how things would turn out than we have.”

e oered further thoughts about what we can learn from our

History teaches that there is no such thing as a self-made man or

man, that we are all shaped by the inuences of others, including

any we’ve never seen because they are back there in history.

History teaches that nothing happens in isolation, or without

e and eect, and that nothing ever had to happen as it did.

History is lled with voices that reach out and lift the spirits,etimes from the distance of centuries.”

t’s listen to the voices of those who civilized this land and built

ldi C k d

By Melinda Krick • Progress and Visions edit

Some of the sources used to compile the timeline include, but are not lim~ Vertical les at Paulding County Carnegie Library and

Paulding Historical Society

~ Miscellaneous items culled from back issues of the PaCounty Progress and its predecessors, the Paulding Democra

Paulding County Republican~ Briceton Centennial booklet (1982)

~ Cecil & Vicinity booklet by Dorothy Chester (1989)

~ A Century of Progress: Antwerp Ohio booklet (1941)

~ Charloe: A Village by a Stream ed. by Otto E. Ehrhart (1962)

~ Historical Atlases of 1882 and 1892

~ History of Grover Hill (Latty and Washington Townships of PaCounty, Ohio) by Laurence R. Hipp

~ “History of Payne and Vicinity” columns by Florence Cartwin the Payne Refector , 1916-18

~ The Melrose Area by Ann Sherry

~ Ohio Ghost Towns #19 Paulding County by the Center For Town Research in Ohio

~ Paulding County Fair Centennial Book (1972)

~ A Paulding Journal by Jeanne Calvert

~ Payne Centennial booklet (1872)

~ Scott Centennial booklet (1987)

EVERY ITEM TELLS A STORY –This ordinary-looking leather bag once carried an impor

secret. In 1884, a new school was being built in Pauldin

 – one that several future generations of students would

attend. V.V. Pursel, president of the Paulding school boa

used the bag to bring $20,000 in gold from Cleveland to

 for the school’s construction. He hitchhiked the entire trThe bag is just one of the artifacts that can be found at t

 John Paulding Historical Society Museum in Paulding.

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1846 1847 1848

1846 – Blue Creek Township is established.

1846 – The Antwerp Pike is completed betweenHicksville and Antwerp at a cost of $5,000,the first toll road in the Maumee Basin.The “corduroy” (log) road providedaccess to the canal in Antwerp.The route closely followspresent-day Ohio 49.

1846 – St. Mary in Junction begins as a station ofSt. Francis de SalesCatholic Church ofToledo.

1846 – Elias Howepatents the firstsewing machine.

1846-48 – Mexican War.

1846 – Iowa becomes29th state.

1846 – SmithsonianInstitution founded.

1846 – Famine in Irelandcaused by failure of

potato crops.

1847 – Henry Howepublishes his first HistoricalCollections of Ohio book.

1848 – Hamer is platted along theMiami and Erie Canal.

1848 – Cranesville Post Office isdiscontinued.

1848 – Gold isdiscovered at Sutter’sMill in California,precipitating the“Forty-Niners” California GoldRush of 1849.

A TIMELINE of HISTORY

1848 – UnitedBrethren minister JohnShingledecker preachethe first sermon in

Paulding Township.

1848 – Wisconsin becomes 30th state.

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1850 – Ohio population: 1.98million; Paulding CountyCensus: 1,766 residents. TheCensus records 77 farms in thecounty and 307 dwellings.

1850 – The first Ohio StateFair is held in Cincinnati.

1850 – The canal town of St.

Andrews is laid out by Jamesand Alexander Mather.

1850 – Paulding Village isplatted near the geographicalcenter of the county by GeorgeMarsh of Van Wert and JamesWatson Riley of Celina.

1850 1851

1850 – California becomes the31st state.

1850 – Ohio leads all states incorn, horses, sheep and woolproduction.

1851 – Peak year of operatiofor the Miami and Erie CanaRevenues are in excess of$350,000 and about 400 boatsare operating.

1851 – WashingtonTownship’s first postoffice, Doylestown P.O., isestablished in February, then

discontinued that December

1851 – The county seat ismoved from Charloe toPaulding.

1851 – Paulding Townshipand Jackson Township areorganized.

1850 – The only gristmillin Crane Township is builton Marie Delarme Creek byZachariah Ashton.

1850 – The first schoolhousein Harrison Township isconstructed, a log cabin inSection 36.

1850 – The first school in BlueCreek Township is taught in alog building.

1850 – First sermon in LattyTownship is given in a

schoolhouse.

1850 – Cincinnati is the largestmeat-packing center in theUnited States, earning thenickname Porkopolis.

1851 – A post office is establiat Paulding on April 24.

1851 – (circa) EmeraldTownship’s first school is

 built, in Section 6.

1851 – Elias Shafer builds thfirst house in Paulding, a dologged cabin on the southwecorner of Jackson and Waterstreets. Two terms of courtare held here before a newcourthouse was built.

1851 – The town of Murat isplatted by Jesse Harrell on thcanal in Washington Townsh

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1853 – Paulding Township’first schoolhouse is construcin Paulding, a small woodframe building on the southwest corner of the town squat Perry and Williams streetsThe teacher is James M. Russ

1853 – The county’s firstnewspaper – Age of Progressis published in Paulding.

1853 – Edward Kimmell becomes the first settler inLatty Township.

1851 1852 1853

1851 – Newbergh, also known asRoyal Oak Post Office, is platted

 by David Shriver and LeonardKimmell on the canal in BrownTownship.

1851 – Cranesville Post Office isre-established after nearly threeyears.

1851 – The county has six postoffices: Antwerp with Postmaster John Lincoln, Cranesville withPostmaster Ephraim Burwell,Doylestown with PostmasterDaniel Redman, Junction withPostmaster Harrison Griffith,Charloe with Postmaster JohnW. Ayres, and Paulding withPostmaster Alexander S. Latty.

1852 – The through line ofpacket boats ceases operationon the Wabash Canal.

1852 – Emerald Townshiporganizes.

1852 – (circa) The countfirst black family – theWilliam Booker family– settles in WashingtonTownship.

1852 – Murat Post Officestablished.

1852 – The first school i Jackson Township is tauon the banks of Blue Crein Section 26.

1851 – The Two Mile Law of1851 creates county boards ofeducation to manage a seriesof sub-districts of one-roomschool houses located at two-mile intervals throughout thetownships.

1852 – The first courthousein Paulding – the second forthe county – is built onMain Street at the northeastcorner of the town square.The structure is a two-storywood frame building similarto the one in Charloe.

1852 – Dwight G. Blakeslee builds the county’s firststeam-powered sawmill, atCharloe. It is an upright saw,a precursor of circular saws.

1852 – The first sawmill inPaulding Township is built

 by Campbell & Forney onFlat Rock Creek.

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1854 1855 1856

1854 – First sawmill in CarryallTownship is built by AlexanderComparet.

1854 – A one-story frameschool is built at Junction, thefirst in Auglaize Township.

1854 – Cholera epidemic hitsnorthwest Ohio particularly

hard, killing hundreds andsometimes wiping out entirefamilies and towns.III issuesa proclamation prohibitingthe granting and settling ofland west of the AlleghenyMountains.

1855 – Melrose is platted by R.G.Pennington and E. Pennington.

1855 – The Toledo, Wabash &Western Railway becomes thefirst railroad open through thecounty. The route later becomes

the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific.

1855 – A depot and post office areestablished at Knox (Knoxdale) onthe new railroad east of Antwerp.

1855 – Latty Township becomesthe county’s 12th and finaltownship to organize.

1855 – The first gristmill inPaulding Township is built byElias Shafer, a water-poweredmill in Paulding on Crooked(Flat Rock) Creek.

1855 – Revenue receipts reachtheir peak for the entire Ohiocanal system, which consists ofalmost 1,000 miles of main linecanals, feeders and side cuts in44 of the state’s 88 counties.

1856 – For the first tithe Miami and ErieCanal operates at a loand continues to do sin following years.

1856 – (circa) Theship timber businessis introduced into thetimber-growing counof northwest Ohio.

1856 – (circa) Thefirst school opens inLatty Township, in thnorthwest corner ofSection 36.

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1858 – Emmett and McGillpost offices open.

1858 – Unsuccessfulattempts are made torelocate the county seat to

Charloe or Junction.

1858 – Minnesota is the32nd state to join the Union.

1858 – Lincoln-Douglasdebates.

1857 – Post offices are

established in Hamer andReids.

1857 – Elias Shafer becomesPaulding’s first merchantwhen he opens a smallgeneral store in the frontpart of his dwelling.

1857 1858 1859

1857 – (circa) The oldest church stillused today built in Junction by theMethodist Episcopal congregation.

1857 – Schilb Furniture andUndertaking is established inAntwerp by Andrew Schilb.

1859 – Paulding CountyAgricultural Society organize

1859 – State ditch laws are enaallowing county commissionersconstruct drainage ditches.

1859 – First sawmill in EmeraTownship erected by FrancisRenische and Shiebault Didie

the south side of the Wabash Cat Tate’s Landing.

1859 – Discovery of ComstocLode in Nevada begins a silverush.

1859 – Oregon joins the Unioour 33rd state.

1859 – First oil well drillat Titusville, Pennsylvan

1859 – In an effort to enslavery, John Brown, anabolitionist from Akron,leads raid on Harper’s FVirginia.

1858 – First sawmillestablished in HarrisonTownship by AdamSnellenberger in Section 36.

1858 – Payne Post Office,the first in Harrison

Township,opensin the homeof AdamSnellenberger.The post officelater moves toMalottville(Payne) butretains itsoriginal name.

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1860 1861 1862

1860 – Ohio population:2.3 million; PauldingCounty Census: 4,945residents.

1860 – First PauldingCounty Fair is held in

 Junction.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln is

elected as the nation’s 16thpresident. In December, SouthCarolina becomes the first stateto secede from the Union, oneof seven to do so before war

 breaks out in April 1861.

1860 – ThePony Express

 begins 18months ofoperation,

reducingtime for amessage totravel acrosscountry to10 days.

1861 – Confederates fire on Fort Sumter atCharleston, S.C., marking the start of the CWar. Reportedly, during the 1861-65 conflicPaulding County furnished more men percapita than any other county in Ohio.

1861 – The Ohio Statehouse is completed.

1861 – First company of the county wasorganized for three years’ service: Compan

of the 38th Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infant

1861 – Company C of the 68th Ohio VoluntInfantry recruited; later Company G of the14th Regiment O.V.I. for three years’ servicand Company I of the 100th Regiment O.V.

1861 – U.S. Army leases land on Johnson’sIsland near Sandusky for a prisoner of wardepot. The camp operates from April 1862 September 1865.

1862 – HamePost Officediscontinued

1861 – (circa) Plumb’s Crossroads(a.k.a. X Roads) established byCaleb Plumb on Hamer Roadapproximately two miles west ofthe Miami Canal in Washington

Township Section 27.

1861 – Kansas granted statehood.

1861 – Company G of the14th Regiment OhioVolunteerInfantryis raisedfor threemonths’

service.

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1863 1864 1865

1863 – President Lincolnsigns the EmancipationProclamation.

1863 – The pivotal Battle ofGettysburg is fought July2-4. In November, PresidentLincoln delivers the GettysburgAddress.

1863 – President Lincoln signsa proclamation declaring a dayof thanksgiving to be observedthe last Thursday in November.

1863 – West Virginia separatesfrom Virginia to become the35th state, the final slave stateadmitted to the Union.

1865 – Antwerp Furna built on the Maumee Rat Antwerp. It can pro13 tons every 24 hours

1865 – Gen. RobertE. Lee surrenders hisConfederate Army to

Gen. Ulysses S. Grantat Appomattox CourtHouse, Virginia, endithe Civil War.

1865 – President AbraLincoln is assassinateand succeeded by An

 Johnson.

1863 – (circa) John J. Hippsettles at the siteof Lock 31 onthe Miami Canal

in WashingtonTownship. Thetownship’s firstflouring mill isestablished at“Hipp’s Lock.”

1863 – CarryallPost Officeestablished.

1863 – First frame schoolhouse built in BentonTownship in Section 20.

1864 – Antwerp is incorporatedas the county’s first village.W.N. Snook is the first mayor.

1864 – Murat Post Office closesand business moved to Royal OakPost Office. Hamer Post Office isre-established.

1864 – The Paulding Furnace ironfurnace is built 1864-65 near Cecil inSection 23 of Crane Township. It canproduce 11 tons every 24 hours.

1864 – Maumee Valley PioneerAssociation organizes in Toledo, withthe purpose “to protect the historicartifacts of the Maumee Valley andto document the history of the early

ttl f f t ti ”

1865 – Cranesville Post Offdiscontinued for a second ti

1865 – The first and onlyflouring mill in Auglaize

Township is built by FredeRufner. It is powered withwater from the Miami Can

1865 – During the winter o1865-66, the largest stick ofship timber reportedly is takfrom the county, cut in JackTownship about two miles of Melrose. The timber was feet square and 75 feet in len

1865 – The ThirteenthAmendment is ratified,officially abolishing slaver

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1866 1867 1868

1866 – The Antwerp Gazette  begins publishing.

1866 – The county’s first brick business building constructedat Antwerp by John J. Shirley.

1866 – The Philander GilbertSr. family settles in LattyTownship and the community

known as Gilbert’s Mills startsaround it. The mill is equipped

 both as a grist mill and asawmill.

1866 – Crane Post Officeestablished.

1866 – Alfred Nobel inventsdynamite.

1866 – Transatlantictelegraph cable put intooperation, allowingmessages to be sent

 between North America

and Europe in a matterof minutes.

1868 – Ohioan Ulysses S. Gris elected president.

1868 – A new courthouseis constructed, a one-story

wood frame building with acourtroom. Next to italso fronting Main Sta long one-story bric

 building is erected focounty offices.

1867 – The U.S. purchases theterritory of Alaska from Russiafor $7.2 million. Opponents callthe move “Seward’s folly.”

1868 – The countycourthouse is destroyed

 by fire, causing the loss omany valuable documenand records.

1868 – Post offices areestablished at TimbervilleWashington Township anat Cecil. Crane Post Offic

discontinued. Emmett PoOffice is discontinued thereopened after three mon

1868 – The first “DecoratDay” is observed in the UWhen graves of Civil Waveterans are decorated wflowers.

1867 – The post offices of Oakwoodand Jacquette are established.

1867 – Nebraska becomes a state.

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1869 1870 1871

1869 – JacquettePost Office isdiscontinued.

1869 – The newspaper The

Review starts publishing inAntwerp.

1869 – The TranscontinentalRailroad is completed with thedriving of the “Golden Spike,”connecting western statesand territories with Easternmarkets.

1869 – The Cincinnati Redstockings becomes the first all-professional baseballteam. Theypost a 65-0

record forthe season.

1870 – Ohio population: 2.66million; Paulding CountyCensus: 8,544 residents.

1870 – The Ohio State University(originally the Ohio Agriculturaland Mechanical College) ischartered.

1870 – The county has 21,443acres under cultivation out of atotal of 259,235 acres.

1870 – A two-story wooden schoolhouse is built on the public square in Paulding.

1870 – The Indiana portion of the Wabash

& Erie Canal is entirely abandoned,rendering the portion between Junctionand the state line as worthless. However,Ohio does not officially abandon its sectionuntil 1888.

1870 – Cedar Point opens with a beergarden, bathing beach and dance floor.

1871 – Cecil is platted by MaN. Utley.

1871 – Gilbert’s Mills Post Ofestablished.

1871 – The first sawmill erectin Blue Creek Township in theastern part of the township.

1871 – (circa) A “corduroy roof logs is built north of Van Wwhere U.S. 127 is located tod

1871 – P.T. Barnum debuts hcircus, “The Greatest Show onEarth.”

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     O     h    i   o1872 – A picnic is held at Charloe todedicate the new bridge. In 1870, thecounty commissioners allotted $200for its construction.

1872 – It is reported that during 1871,the county had 1,658 white voters and102 colored voters.

1872 – Plans reportedly progressingon the double-track ContinentalRailroad from New York to Omaha,to pass through Paulding County,prompting speculators to planvillages everywhere along the line.

1872 1873 1874

1872 – The Paulding CountyAgricultural Society purchases25 acres of land for $900 from

 Joseph Coupland in Pauldingfor a fairgrounds. They build a

 board fence around the grounds,plus a floral hall, office, stands,stalls and a half-mile race course.

1872 – First annual fair held Oct.1-3 at the new fairgrounds inPaulding with 415 entries judged.

1872 – The village of Malottville(later renamed Payne) is platted

 by Peter Lehman and JosephMalott.

1872 – W.C. Hedges plats theill f O k d

1872 – George Leslie IIfounds Leslie’s Crossing,which later comes Briceton.

1872 – The first and onlysawmill built in CarryallTownship is started byPeter Snook and James W.

 Johnson in Antwerp.

1872 – McGill Post Officeis discontinued.

1872 – Farmers and otherrural residents have a newway to shop. MontgomeryWard of Chicago producesa mail order catalog, thefirst of its kind.

1873 – Paulding isincorporated as a hamlet.

1873 – W.C. Hedges plats thetown of Flat Rock City justeast of Malottville.

1874 – Paulding is incorpoas a village with a populati391. The mayor is A.H. Seld

1874 – About 60% of land iPaulding County is ownedpersons who don’t reside h

1874 – Pleasant Point PostOffice, the first in Blue Cree

Township, is established onPaulding and Van Wert Pik

1874 – The community ofFlatrock City – two store

 buildings and severalresidences – are placed on sand, using teams of horses,moved 3/4 of a mile west tMalottville.

1874 – Carryall Post Officediscontinued.

1874 – The first zoo in Ameis founded in Philadelphia.

1874 – The Paulding Grang#332 is formed, folloquickly by Latty Gra#621, WashingtonGrange #619, OakwGrange #627, BlueCreek Grange #765,Carryall Grange #8Flat Rock Grange #Emerald Grange #7and Enterprise Gra#777.

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1875 1876 1877

1875 – Construction begins

on a new brick jail inPaulding. It is designed byT.J. Tolan & Son Architectsof Fort Wayne, whoseaccomplishments laterincluded the Van WertCounty Courthouse.

1875 – Antwerp organizes afire department.

1875 – The Mission of Cecil isorganized.

1875 – Prairie Creek Grange#1173 organizes.

1875 – A Grangepicnic is held atthe fairgroundswith 11 Grangesparticipating.

1876 – The United Statescelebrates its centennial year.

1876 – George Potter opensPotter’s Bank in Paulding, theonly bank in the county.

1876 – The new brick PauldingCounty Jail is completed.

1876 – The first steam-poweredflouring mill is built inPaulding Township by EugeneLinn in Paulding.

1876 – The Paulding Hook &Ladder Co. organizes.

1876 – Colorado joins theUnion.

1876 – U.S. Cavalry forces underGen. George Custer are wipedout at the Battle of Little BigHorn in Montana.

1876 – Two-story brickschoolhouses areunder constructionin Antwerp and

 Junction.

1876 – AlexanderGraham Bellinvents thetelephone.

1877 – Work is progressingthe Paulding & Cecil Railro

1877 – Thomas Edison invthe phonograph.

1877 – E.P. Williams andW.F. Straw of Paulding begimanufacturing operations attheir clay tile factory, the firsin the county.

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1878 1879 1880

1878 – Timberville PostOffice is closed, but reopensthe next year.

1878 – After being closednearly six years, McGillPost office is re-established.

1878 – Plumb’s CrossroadsPost Office opens.

1879 – The Antwerp Bannernewspaper begins publishing.

1879 – A large frame two-storymain building is constructedat the county infirmary[county home], “large enoughto accommodate 42 paupers,and has apartments forsuperintendent and family.”

An asylum connected with the building will accommodate 12patients.

1879 – Thomas Edison inventsthe electric light bulb.

1879 – Cleveland becomes theworld’s first city to be lightedelectrically.

 1880 – Ohio population: 3.2 million;Paulding County Census: 13,489residents. Towns: Antwerp 1,223;Paulding 483.

1880 – The first train enters Pauldingover the seven-mile Paulding & CecilRailway (later part of the Cincinnati,

 Jackson & MackinawRailroad).

1880 – Surveying begins for a newrailroad betweenChicago, Fort Wayne

and Cleveland. Theeast-west routetraverses the middle ofthe county.

1880 – Antwerp Furnacceases operations.

1880 – Major A.B.Holcombe begins a newindustry here – making hoops and staves.

1880 – The countyhas 47,199 acres under

cultivation, only 18.2% oits 259,235 total acres.

1880 – The old homeand trading post built byGeneral Horatio Curtis– the first building inAntwerp in 1840 (cornerPayne Avenue and CanaStreet) – is torn down.

1880 – In the BlackSwamp area, more th50 tile factories are usthe region’s plentifulclay resources toproduce drainage tile

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1881 1882 1883

1881 – Tracks for the New York,Chicago & St. Louis Railroad(“Nickel Plate”) are completedthrough the county.

1881 – A new town forms at thecrossing of the Cincinnati, VanWert & Michigan Railroad andthe Continental Railroad, Lattyis platted by Alexander S. Latty

along the new railroad; on theother side of the tracks, WrexhamLewis plats the town of Wrexham.

1881 – W.C. Hedges plats thevillage of Hedges in JacksonTownship.

1881 – (circa) The AntwerpFurnace ceases operation.

1881 (circa) – St. PaulReformed Church builtin southwestern PauldingTownship.

1882 – The post offices forRoyal Oak, Pleasant Point anSunnyside are closed. TheLewellyn P.O. is changed to S

1882 – The county records 51 births and 145 deaths for the

1881 – Post offices areestablished at Lewellyn(Scott) and Toronto (EmeraldTownship). A few monthslater, Toronto is changed toSunnyside.

1881 – Paulding’s first brick business building, theCromley Block, constructed onthe south side of the square.

1881 – Antwerp holds thecounty’s first high schoolcommencement with onegraduate: John Snook.

1881 – Platted villages arelocated in every township

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1882 – More railroad towns areplatted: Dague in Blue CreekTownship, Scott by John Scott;

Briceton, Broughton, Lewellyn,Worstville and Ettiesburg.

1882 – Residents of Malottvillepetition to change their town’sname to Payne.

1882 – Henry Wiswell isthe mayor of the newlyincorporated village of Cecil.

1882 – The Nickel Plate Railroadopens after just 18 months ofconstruction.

1882 – Paulding’s population is1,154 – an increase of 700 in the pasttwo years.

1882 – Train fare from Paulding toFort Wayne via Latty is $1.05, or$1 75 d i

1882 – Two regular trainsare running daily betweenPaulding and Van Wert.

1882 – A hack line betweenEmerald Station and Pauldis discontinued.

1882 – Post offices areestablished at Dague, LattyMelrose, Worstville andFollmer. Junction Post Officis opened for a few monthsthe fall.

1882 – Paulding County’shistory and biographicalsketches of prominent residare highlighted in the bookHi i l H d A l Ill

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1883 1884 1885

1883 – Payne incorporates asa village with H.K. Gaut asmayor. Its first newspaper,The Star , begins publishing.

1883 – Cecil and Paulding are

connected via telephone.

1883 – Post offices areestablished for Smiley,Briceton and Hedges, andre-established at Junction.

1883 – A big fire inPaulding destroys five storesdowntown.

1884 – A post office opensat Arthur in AuglaizeTownship.

1884 –The railroads aregiven credit with “having

made the timber worthmore now than the landwas worth four yearsago,” according to a stateag report.

1884 – The Payne schoolis destroyed by fire.

1883 – At the fairgrounds,an octagon-shaped floralhall is constructed with glassceilings.

1883 – (circa) Grand Armyof the Republic (G.A.R.)

posts for Unionveterans are formedin several towns,including Payne,Cecil and Paulding.

1884 – New schools are built atBroughton, Paulding, Oakwoodand Charloe.

1885 – Emma Wesner is graduatedfrom Antwerp High School, the firsfemale graduate in the county.

1885 – The county has 23 active pooffices.

1885 – Tate’s Landing on the oldWabash Canal has a population of40 with two saloons.

1885 – A pioneer association iorganized, with annual picnicusually held at Riverside ParkAntwerp or at the fairgroundsPaulding.

1885 – A school is constructeMelrose.

1885 – Henry Howe begins anew tour of Ohio to updatehis 1847 best-seller, HistoricalCollections of Ohio.

1885 – After the death of herhusband Andrew, J. MargareSchilb of Antwerp attendsBoston’s Egyptian School ofEmbalming and becomes thef l d k h U S

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1886 1887 1888

1886 – Paulding has its firstfemale physician, Dr. Sade E.Dix (wife of Dr. P.A. Dix), andfemale attorney, Edith SamsSeiders (Mrs. Charles A.) – thefirst woman admitted to theBar of Ohio, in 1881.

1886 – The first petitioncirculates to abandon the

reservoir near Antwerp andthe Wabash Canal from thestate line east to Junction.

1886 – McGill Post Officecloses for the second and finaltime.

1886 – Fairgroundimprovements include agrandstand to seat 300.

1886 – Construction beginson a grand new countycourthouse – the third inPaulding and the fourthoverall in the county.

1886 – The county has11 graded schools.

1886 – German inventorKarl Benz invents thefirst gasoline-poweredautomobile.

1886 – Statue of Liberty,a gift of friendship fromthe people of France, isdedicated in New YorkHarbor.

1887 – Grover Hill isplatted.

1887 – St. John LutheranChurch is established inBriceton.

1887 – An oil/gas well isdrilled by Paulding Oil & Gas Co.at Paulding.

1887 – Fire destroys an entire blockof business buildings in Payne Afew months later, fire claims threestructures on the south side of thesquare in Paulding.

1887 – Melrose incorporated as avillage.

1887 – “Reservoir War.”Antwerp area residents wantedto drain the unused 3,600-acreSix Mile Reservoir east ofthe village. On the night of

April 25,a groupof 200or moremen, carrying bannersproclaiming “No Compromise,” blowup two canal locks at the reservoir’s east end.Two separate groups set off charges at locks atTate’s Landing and Junction. Gov. Foraker sendsabout 60 troops to protect the canal and reservoirfrom further damage. The dynamiters set offadditional explosions the night of the 26th. About month later, the governor personally tours the siteand promises to remedy the conditions.

1888 –Surveying begins on

American Midland RailroadFindlay & Fort Wayne Railrto run east-west through thsouthern part of the county

1888 – Paulding High Schoholds its first commencemewith one graduate: HortensAyers.

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1888 – The new countycourthouse is completed.

1888 – Paulding VillageCouncil passes an ordinancethat no frame building may

 be erected around the publicsquare.

1888 1889 18901888 – Cincinnaticelebrates itscentennial.

1888 – The state

legislature passes a bill to abandon Ohio’sportion of the WabashCanal and SixMile Reservoir.

1889 – Forder’s Bridge is built across the MaumeeRiver.

1889 – (circa) The firstschoolhouse is built inGrover Hill.

1889 – The Oakwood Sentinel  begins publishing.

1889 – Post offices are openedat Grover Hill and Tipton.Gilbert’s Mills. P.O. closes.

1889 – The Eiffel Toweropens in Paris, part of anexposition celebrating thecentennial of the FrenchRevolution.

1890 – Ohio populationmillion; Paulding CountCensus: 25,932 residentsTowns: Paulding 1,873;Antwerp 1,463.

1890 – Forder’s Bridge o

1890 – The first PauldinCounty Farmers’ Institu

held.

1890 – Baldwin is platteon the railroad in BentonTownship.

1890 – Link Post Officeopens in northern CarryTownship.

1890 – A bandstand is builton the southwest corner of thcourthouse lawn.

1890 – In the county, 90,000 a(34%) are now arable, and 10,

i t l d

1889 – Four new states admitted:North Dakota, South Dakota,Montana and Washington.

1889 – The town of Mandale isplatted by Dale Mann and AliceMann.

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1890 – In Paulding, a reading room isestablished “so young men will haveno excuse for spending their evening ingaming, carousing and foolish idleness.”

1890 1891 1892

 1892 – A book of couhistory and residents’

 biographies is publishHistorical Atlas of PaulCounty, Ohio.

1892 – Town plats armade for Roselms,Haviland and Tipton,on the new railroad.

1892 – The firstlocomotive on the newrailway reaches GrovHill.

1892 – Post offices establisheArena, Haviland, Mandale anRoselms. The office at PlumbCross Roads closes.

1892 – The first sewer isconstructed in Paulding.

1890 – The racetrack at thefairgrounds is lengthened.

1890 – Two new states areadded – Idaho and Wyoming

– bringing the total to 44.

1890 – A two-story brickschool is built in Scott.

1890 – A photograph of first settlerShadrach Hudson’s log home near Junctionis taken and “distributed as a pioneersouvenir item.”

1891 – Payne HighSchool has its firstgraduate – Charles A.Barber.

1891 – A mastodon toothis discovered on the farmof John Cozat, a farmerresiding about six milessouthwest of Paulding.

1891 – The post officesof Batson and Morrisonopen.

1891 – The Findlay, FortWayne and WesternRailroad is completedthrough the southern tierof counties.

1891 – Fire sweeps awayfive businesses in Payne. InPaulding, another huge firedestroys 11 stores, a hoteland Potter’s Bank. Firms seektemporary quarters while new

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Te Paulding County Veterans’ Service Office isdedicated to aiding Paulding County veterans and

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Tere are two basic services the agency provides:

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