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From the Historical Archives
of the
Paulding County Progress
Fifteenth in a Series
July 30, 2014
Written by Melinda Krick
Features
A Time Line of History....... 2
Timeline - Part 1 ....... 4
Dates chronicle county history

July 2014 1
VISIONS OF PAULDING COUNTY
2014 Edition
ABOUT THE COVER
2014 marks the 175th anniversary of
Paulding County. In 1839, the county,
which had been attached to various
other counties, such as Williams, began
governing itself with the first seat of
government at New Rochester.
This is also the 15th year for Visions.
The cover photo is provided courtesy
of the John Paulding Historical Society.
The photo, donated to the museum
by Aaron Kohart, is thought to be the
Bob Harvester sawmill one mile east of
the canal town of Timberville, north of
Mandale. Clearing the dense forests was
a priority for early settlers. However,
the lack of markets and transportation
hampered efforts. The opening of the
canals in the 1840s provided an easy
and effective way to get rid of
unwanted timber.
Copyright 2014 by the Paulding County Progress.
All 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 15 is published by the Paulding County Progress,
P.O. Box 180, Paulding OH 45879; email progress@progressnewspaper.org
Web site: www.progressnewspaper.org
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Visions could not be produced every year without the
aid of many people. This year, we extend our thanks to John
Paulding Historical Society and Paulding County Carnegie
Library two of our countys greatest assets.
For more information on local history, visit the librarys
genealogy section, which has a wealth of material, including
books, indexes, a vertical file, microfilm and a knowledgeable
staff. Visit www.pauldingcountylibrary.org.
The historical museum is our best-kept secret
and contains three buildings full of displays
and artifacts covering all eras of county history.
Visit www.johnpauldinghistoricalsociety.org.
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our readers. We have a limited supply of additional
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can be obtained by mail; call our office at 419-399-4015
for pricing. Inquire about back issues of our Visions,
published every year since 2000.
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A TIMELINE of HISTORY
Think
Paulding County and history. What
comes to mind? Possibly the vast Great
Black Swamp, clearing trees, draining the land, mud
and more mud. Maybe your mind drifts to images of
the original inhabitants paddling down our unspoiled
rivers and streams, pioneers building a log cabin in the
wilderness, rowdy canal towns, children in a one-room
school, or steam locomotives crisscrossing the landscape.
Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is in the more
recent past, like a championship basketball game in a tiny
gym, a busy downtown on a Friday night, the smell of
sugar beets or tomatoes being processed, or going with a
date for a Coke after a movie.
Actually, all of those things, and more, make up
our unique history. This year marks Paulding Countys
175th anniversary (1839-2014). In an Only-in-Paulding-
County twist, we have two different founding dates
1820 and 1839 but well get to that. This year also
marks the 15th edition of Visions. To introduce this years
offering, we have to go back in time about 15 years. I
started keeping notes (on index cards!) on three different
subjects: ghost towns, place names and a timeline of
history. The dates were interesting because typically,
histories are written by subject railroads, townships,
schools, towns, etc. However, sometimes events take on
additional significance when placed in the context of
what else is happening at the time. It also exposes firsts
and connections that wouldnt otherwise be obvious. The
chronology helps make it clear how the county really
developed and grew, and why.
Part 1 of our timeline stretches back to the Ice Age, when
glaciers led to the formation of the Black Swamp. Imagine
that where you are standing now was once covered by
ice sheets a mile thick. Then fast-forward a few thousand
years when you would be under 80 feet of water in an
early version of Lake Erie. After waters receded, a swamp
the size of Connecticut took hold and giant oaks, elms,
ash and sycamore towered up to 150 feet in the air the
height of the Statue of Liberty or a 14-story building. An
early canal traveler wrote, Great sticks of black oak shot
up straight from the bottoms without a knot or branch,
until their heads spread out some scores of feet above.
Explorer Robert LaSalle, Mad Anthony Wayne,
William Henry Harrison, Little Turtle, Blue Jacket and
Johnny Appleseed every one of them traveled through
Paulding County as they made their marks on history.
(Ironically, John Paulding, for whom the county is named,
never set foot here.) The Maumee River was an important
highway, a crucial link for native peoples, explorers,
French voyageurs, traders and missionaries traveling
from the eastern Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Only a
By Melinda Krick Progress and Visions editor
short (about eight-mile) portage separated the headwaters
of the Maumee, at what is now Fort Wayne, from the
Wabash River watershed. The Maumee-Wabash Portage
was called the Glorious Gate the shortest and more
direct route of travel. That glorious gate through which all
the good words of our chiefs had to pass from north to south, and
from east to west. Chief Little Turtle, 1795 speech
This was a land ruled by Miamis, Ottawas, Delawares
and others before Europeans came, first to trade for
furs and later to claim land for settlements. The French
reigned over the area for more than 80 years and the
British for only about 20 before America gained control.
An astonishing amount of history occurred in Paulding
County in the first half of the 19th century. The land that
the first settlers found here in the 1820s and 1830s was
greatly altered just one generation later. Farms, villages,
schools, mills, congregations and canals were springing
up. Despite the hardships, the population grew quickly.
Some wild game, like buffalo, elk and beaver, already had
disappeared, as well as the Native Americans who had
called this home.
Some of the sources used to compile the timeline include, but are not
limited to:
~ Antwerp Centennial booklet
~ Briceton Centennial booklet
~ Cecil & Vicinity booklet by Dorothy Chester
~ Charloe: A Village by a Stream ed. by Otto E. Ehrhart
~ The Confluence by Randall Buchman
~ Historical Atlases of 1882 and 1892
~ History of Grover Hill (Latty and Washington Townships of Paulding
County, Ohio) by Laurence R. Hipp
~ A History of Northwest Ohio by Nevin O. Winter
~ History of Payne and Vicinity columns by Florence Cartwright
~ History of the Maumee River Basin by Charles Elihu Slocum
~ History of the Maumee Valley by Horace S. Knapp
~ Maumee River 1835 by Louis A. Simonis
~ The Melrose Area by Ann Sherry
~ Ohio Ghost Towns #19 Paulding County by the Center For Ghost
Town Research in Ohio
~ Paulding County Fair Centennial Book
~ A Paulding Journal by Jeanne Calvert
~ Payne Centennial booklet
~ The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana by B.J. Griswold
~ Scott Centennial booklet
~ Travel Back in Time (Miami and Erie Canal) by ODNR
~ Vertical files at Paulding County Carnegie Library and John
Paulding Historical Society
~ Miscellaneous items culled from back issues of the Paulding County
Progress and its predecessors, the Paulding Democrat and Paulding
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1.8 million years ago Ice age begins in
Ohio, with massive sheets of ice advancing
and retreating several times over the millennia,
recontouring the landscape and changing
drainage patterns. Glaciers cover the Great
Lakes area, with ice up to a mile thick in the
Erie Basin and 1,000 feet thick in central Ohio.
24,000-22,000 BC
The last glacier,
the Wisconsinian
Glacier, reaches
northern Ohio.
20,000 BC Glacial grooves
formed on Kelleys Island in
Lake Erie.
18,000 BC Wisconsinian Glacier begins
to retreat northward, helping create the
geological features that lead to development
of the Black Swamp, a wetland about 40
miles wide north to south and 120 miles east
to west, between Port Clinton, Ohio, and
Fort Wayne, Indiana large as the state of
Connecticut or the Everglades.
14,000-12,000 BC Last of ice
gone from Ohio. Meltwater creates
Glacial Lake Maumee, predecessor
of present Lake Erie. It extends west
to the current site of Fort Wayne,
Ind., and drains westward into the
Wabash River. The lakes highest
point is about 800 feet above sea
level (about 80 feet deep over
Paulding County). Lake sediments
accumulate in the area that is now
northwest Ohio.
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13,000-7,000 BC Ohios first
human inhabitants.
2,000 BC Lake Erie
reaches its present form.
A TIMELINE of HISTORY
1534 Cartier discovers St.
Lawrence, sails to Montreal
and claims all of the land for
France. French government
names the land New France.
1541 Spanish explorer
Hernando de Soto believed
to have entered the Ohio
Valley and Mississippi
Valley.
1534 1607 1669
1607 Founding of
Jamestown, Va., the first
English settlement on
American mainland.
1608 Samuel de
Champlain founds
Quebec as a trading post.
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1614 (circa) Samuel
de Champlain
reportedly visits Lake
Erie and is probably
the first explorer
to see the Maumee
River.
1620 The Pilgrims
establish the Plymouth
Colony in Massachusetts.
1669-70 Ren Robert
Cavalier Sieur de la
Salle, a young French
nobleman, discovers the
Ohio River, giving France
the first European claim
to the land.
1680 (circa) French
establish the first white
settlement on the
Maumee River and build
a stockade (Fort Miami)
a few miles above the
mouth of the river at
Toledo.
1565 St. Augustine
is founded by the
Spanish in Florida.
A TIMELINE of HISTORY
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1722 (circa) French
fort Saint Philippe des
Miamis (Fort Miamis)
built on the banks of
the St. Marys River to
protect the important
portage between the
Maumee and Wabash
rivers.
1680 1704 1722
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1680-86 (circa) As early as this date,
French establish a trading post and
possibly fort Post (or Fort) Miami
at Kekionga (present day Fort Wayne)
at the head of the Maumee River on
the portage between the Maumee and
the Wabash.*
*The date of the first French fort has widely
conflicting dates, from the 1680s to as late as
1734. Other possible dates are 1704, 1705,
1715 and 1722.
1696 - Jean Baptiste
Bissot, Sieur
de Vincennes,
is appointed
commander of the
French outposts
southeast of Lake
Michigan (in present-
day northeastern
Indiana).
1701 French explorer Cadillac
builds Fort Ponchartrain, an
outpost commonly called Detroit.
1704 Jean Baptiste Bissot
may have established a post
at Kekionga (Fort Wayne). He
is appointed to control of a
station there in 1706.
1715 (circa) French establish
trading sites at Defiance
(possibly as early as 1680).
1720 (circa) Pontiac
believed to have been born
at the confluence of the
Maumee and Auglaize
rivers (now Defiance). The
Ottawa chief later would
lead an important uprising
against the British.
1747 1755 1770
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1747 French Fort Miamis at
Fort Wayne burned during raid,
possibly by Hurons or Iroquois.
The fort is repaired.
1747 Ohio Company
of Virginia organizes
for settlement of Ohio
Country and to trade
with Native Americans.
Colonization efforts help
bring about the French
and Indian War.
1750-52 French rebuild
their last fort at Fort Wayne,
on the east bank of the St.
Joseph River.
1755-63 French and Indian War fought in
North America between the British colonies
and New France. The French were aided by
Native American allies.
1750 Cumberland Gap
discovered, giving pioneers
access to the frontier
areas of Kentucky and
Tennessee.
1758 John Paulding
born in New York
City.
1760 French fort at Fort Wayne
surrendered to the British.
1763 Treaty of Paris signed, ending
the French and Indian War. France
gives Britain both Canada and French-
owned lands east of the Mississippi
River. King George III issues a
proclamation prohibiting the granting
and settling of land west of the
Allegheny Mountains.
1763 Beginning of Pontiacs Rebellion. Ottawa
Chief Pontiac (born in Defiance) leads an uprising
against the British in the Great Lakes area.
Warriors capture eight forts. Fort Miami (Fort
Wayne) falls after an attack by the Miami tribe.
Commander Robert Holmes and three of his
men are killed, the rest of his 15-man garrison
surrenders.
1780 Militiamen John
Paulding, David
Williams and Isaac
Van Wart capture
Major John Andr,
a British spy
working with
Benedict Arnold,
at Tarrytown,
N.Y. With General
Washingtons personal
recommendation, the United
States Congress awards the trio
the first military decoration of the
United States, the silver medal
known as the Fidelity Medallion.
1774 First Continental
Congress meets in
Philadelphia.
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1774 1781 1786
1775 Minutemen and redcoats
clash at Lexington and Concord,
The shot heard round the world.
George Washington assumes
command of the Continental Army.
1776 Declaration of
Independence signed.
1780 British Capt. Bird
leaves Detroit with plans
to invade Kentucky,
traveling down the
Auglaize River on the
route and reportedly
builds a supply stockade
near Defiance.
1781 Cornwallis
surrenders British forces
at Yorktown.
1782 New York
cedes its claim to
western lands,
including much of
present-day Ohio.
1783 American
Revolution ends with
signing of Treaty of
Paris. The British
cede western lands,
including Ohio, to the
new nation.
1784 State of
Virginia cedes the
Northwest Territory
to the United States,
containing present
states of Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan,
Wisconsin and part of
Minnesota.
1786 Ohio
Company of
Associates
forms in Boston
to purchase and
settle lands on
the Ohio River.
1786
Connecticut
cedes its
western
land claims,
including
portions of
Ohio, to the
U.S.
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1787 1791 1795
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1787 U.S. Congress passes the
Northwest Ordinance, providing
a temporary government for the
land north and west of the Ohio
River. Arthur St. Clair becomes
governor of the Northwest
Territory, serving until 1802.
1788 Ohio Company
of Associates settles
Marietta, on the Ohio
River at its junction
with the Muskingum
River, becoming the first
permanent settlement in the
Northwest Territory and
Ohio. Washington County is
established with Marietta as
the county seat.
1788 First settlement of
Cincinnati in December.
1789 George
Washington is
inaugurated
as the first
president on
April 30 in New
York City.
1789 French
Revolution
begins.
1790 Hamilton
County is established
with Cincinnati as the
county seat.
1790 President George
Washington directs the U.S.
Army to halt the hostilities
between the NativeAmericans
and settlers and enforce U.S.
sovereignty over the Northwest
Territory. General Josiah Harmar
leads his army into Shawnee and
Miami lands in western Ohio.
Warriors led by Little Turtle and
Blue Jacket overpower Harmars
forces, the most decisive defeat
of U.S. forces by native peoples
up to that time.
1791 Following
Harmars defeat,
General Arthur St.
Clair, governor of the
Northwest Territory,
leads a disastrous
expedition to build forts
in western Ohio. Little
Turtle and Blue Jacket
again lead warriors
against the soldiers. St.
Clair loses close to half
of his men, making this
the worst U.S. defeat to
that time.
1792 One of the largest Native American
councils ever held takes place at the confluence
of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers (now
Defiance), which is a trade center. Nearly 4,000
leaders and warriors attend.
1794 President
Washington, after the
failures of Harmar and St.
Clair, turns to Revolutionary
War hero General Mad
Anthony Wayne. Wayne
marches along the Auglaize
River with 3,000 troops
against the indigenous
peoples here. The route goes
through townships in eastern
Paulding County. They
build Fort Defiance before
marching toward Maumee
and winning the Battle of
Fallen Timbers against forces
led by Blue Jacket. Troops
build travel up the Maumee
River and build Fort Wayne.
Little Turtle
1795 1796 1799
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1795 As a result of General Waynes victory
at Fallen Timbers, the U.S. and the Western
Confederacy of Native Americans sign the
Treaty of Greenville on Aug. 3 in Darke County.
Land ceded to the U.S. includes large parts of
present-day Ohio,
Fort Detroit area
and Chicago area.
1795 Connecticut
Land Company
organized to
encourage
settlement in
the Connecticut
Western Reserve in
northeast Ohio.
1796 Wayne County is organized in Ohio
and includes 26 of the present counties of
northern and northwest Ohio (including
Paulding) plus part of northeast Indiana and
all of Michigan. Court is held in Detroit.
1796 Cleveland (originally Cleaveland)
founded in the Connecticut Western Reserve.
1796 British-held forts in U.S. territory,
including Detroit,
Michilimackinac,
Maumee and
Sandusky, are
vacated and
turned over U.S.
as a result of the
Jay Treaty.
1798 Construction begins
on the second American fort
at Fort Wayne, replacing the
first, hastily built one. The
second fort is completed in
1800.
1799 Ohio
becomes a U.S.
territory.
1795 The Treaty of Greenville also grants a
reserve for the use of the Ottawa Indians three
miles square on the Little Auglaize River to include
Oquanoxas village.
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1800 First federal Census for
Ohio: population 42,159.
1801 First post road
established between
Cincinnati and Detroit.
1802 (circa)
Missionary
work begins in
northwest Ohio.
1802 Ohio
University
chartered in
Athens as
American Western
University.
1803 Ohio admitted
as the 17th state of the
Union, the first created
from the Northwest
Territory. Edward Tiffin
takes office as governor.
1803 The last buffalo
in Ohio is killed in
Lawrence County.
1803 Louisiana Purchase
doubles the size of the young
nation when President Thomas
Jefferson buys from France
828,000 square miles of territory,
from the Mississippi River to the
Rocky Mountains, and Canadian
border to the Gulf of Mexico.
1810 Ohio
population:
230,760.
1811 At Cumberland, Maryland,
construction begins on the National
Road (Cumberland Road), a gateway
to the West and the first major
improved highway to be built by the
U.S. government.
1812 War of 1812: U.S.
declares war on Britain.
1812 General Harrison builds
Fort Brown at the confluence
of the Big and Little Auglaize
rivers. Fort Winchester built at
Defiance near the ruins of old
Fort Defiance.
1812 A soldiers journal
contains probably the first
recorded reference to the
Black Swamp by that name
... encamped in what is
Called the Black Swamp,
had a Disagreeable night
of wet and Musketoes.
(Robert Lucas, June 10,
1812; future governor of
Ohio and namesake of
Lucas County)
1813 1818 1820
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1813 Commodore Oliver Hazard Perrys
victory over the British on Lake Erie near
Put-In-Bay, one of the biggest naval battles
during the War of 1812. (We have met the
enemy and they are ours.)
1814 Burning of Washington, D.C.
by British; Bombardment of Fort
McHenry, Francis Scott Key writes
The Star-Spangled Banner; Treaty
of Ghent signed, officially ending
War of 1812.
1815 Fort Wayne is rebuilt by Major John
Whistler*, who had assisted in constructing
the first two forts. This is the last fort in the
Three Rivers area.
*Whistler, a Revolutionary
War veteran, also served with
Harmar and St. Clair. His
grandson, James McNeill Whistler,
became an artist, best known for
Whistlers Mother.
1816 Perrysburg surveyed,
the first town platted along
the Maumee River.
1816 Columbus becomes
the capital of Ohio.
1818 The National Road completed to
the Ohio River at Wheeling, Virginia (now
West Virginia).
1819 U.S. Army abandons its post
at Fort Wayne.
1819 In October, an Indian agent
of Piqua gives this accounting of the
population: at Charloe were Ottawa
Indians, 85 men, 88 women and 55
children.
1819 Survey and dividing of land into
townships and sections begins. In the
Ohio Survey the 41st Parallel of Latitude
the line dividing Paulding and Van
Wert counties is surveyed as the base
line by Sylvanus Bourne.
Fort Wayne rebuilt
Ohio Survey
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1820 Ohios population is 581,434.
1820 1822 1825
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1820 The Ohio legislature
divides land ceded by tribes
in the northwest part of the
state into counties; Paulding
County is formed and
attached to Wood County.
1820 The Ohio legislature
passes an act that authorizes
the location of a canal that
will join Lake Erie with the
water of the Wabash River
in Indiana, a distance of 213
miles.
1820 Township lines are
established. The townships
are divided into sections in
1821-22.
1821 A post office is
established for Fort Defiance.
1822 (circa)
Shadrach Hudson
builds the first
cabin in the county,
20 feet by 30 feet
and two stories
high.
1823 First settlements
in Crane Township at
24 different places along
the Maumee.
1824 Williams County is
established and Paulding
County, along with Henry and
Putnam counties, are attached to
it for judicial purposes.
1824 Allen County, Indiana, is
organized. Fort Wayne is platted
as a town.
1824 Survey is made for the
Miami Canal route in Ohio.
1825 Crane Township is
organized, named for settler
Oliver Crane.
1825 (circa) Cranesville
is established. General
Horatio N. Curtis builds a
large brick home/trading
post. [The home still stands
today.]
1825 In Middletown,
construction begins on the
Miami Canal.
1825 The Erie Canal opens
between Albany and Buffalo
in New York.
1822 In Paulding County, first
white settlement, by Shadrach
Hudson on Auglaize River in
Section 19 of Auglaize Township.
1822 First settlements on the
Maumee River in Paulding County
.
1822 Thomas Quick settles in
Crane Township.
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1826 The first known
white child is born in
the county in Auglaize
Township: Daniel Clark
Carey, a son of Isaac
and Abigail (Hudson)
Carey. He grows up to
become a probate judge.
1826 First settlers:
Joseph Mellinger on
the Little Auglaize in
Washington Township;
William Gordon on
the Maumee River in
Emerald Township;
Christian Shroufe in
Brown Township.
1826 (circa) Thomas P.
Quick opens the first trading
post for trade with the
Native Americans, believed
located just east of New
Rochester on the Maumee
River.
1826 Survey started for
the Wabash & Erie Canal in
Ohio and Indiana; survey
not completed until autumn
1828.
1827 A squatter named James
Hinton settles in Carryall
Township. That fall, David
Applegate builds a cabin and
becomes the first actual settler.
1827 The first school in Crane
Township is established in a log
house on the north side of the
Maumee, two miles northeast
of Cecil.
1828 Construction
begins on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, the
first public railroad in
America.
1829 First county
post office established
at Cranesville.
1829 Carryall
Township organizes.
1829 First boats
on the Miami Canal
arrive at Dayton from
Cincinnati.
1830 Paulding
County Census:
161 residents. Ohio
population: 937,903.
1830 Brown
Township organizes.
1830-31 (circa) Johnny Appleseed
(John Chapman) visits the Isaac
Carey farm, recalls to Isaacs son,
David Clark Carey. He was clothed
in rags, and with shoes bound on his
feet by strings to hold them on his
feet and to hold the pieces of shoes
from parting company.
1831
Oquanoxas
Reserve
(Charloe) land
is taken into
public domain
and sold on the
same terms as
other lands at
that time.
1832 1833 1835
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1832 Isaac Carey builds
the brick Hudson House
at Charloe on east side of
Auglaize River. He later
sells it to brother-in-law
John Hudson.
1832 Ohio and Erie Canal
completed.
1832 Ground is broken at Fort
Wayne for the Wabash and Erie
Canal in Ohio and Indiana.
1833 The 66-mile-long Miami
Canal opens, connecting
Cincinnati and Dayton.
1833 Work begins on the
Miami Extension Canal linking
the Miami Canal in Dayton to
the Wabash & Erie Canal at
Junction.
1833 Towns of Vistula and Port
Lawrence merge to form Toledo.
1833 First log schoolhouse
built about two miles northeast
of Antwerp. William Roberts
teaches 15 pupils.
1833-34 (circa) John D. Carlton
teaches at the first school in
Brown Township, in a log cabin.
1834 First grist mill in Brown
Township built by Pierce Evans
on the Little Auglaize. It is soon
washed away by high water.
The mill is operated in
conjunction with a sawmill,
probably the first in the county.
1835 First schoolhouse
built in Charloe in Brown
Township.
1835 New towns:
plats are recorded for
New Rochester in Crane
Township, New Harrison
in Carryall Township and
Fort Brown in Auglaize
Township. At Fort Brown,
the Rev. N.L. Thomas
builds the first house,
followed by Isaac Savage.
1835 The five-year-
old Toledo War ends,
establishing firmly the
border between Ohio and
Michigan.
1835 (circa) The
Moss Brothers of
England settle along
Blue Creek, the first
in Jackson Township.
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1836 1838 1839
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1836 Canalport is platted in Brown Township.
1836 Michigan is admitted to the Union.
1836 The first schoolhouse in Crane Township
is built at New Rochester.
1836 A horse-drawn rail line, the
Erie & Kalamazoo Railway, opens
between Toledo and Adrian, Mich.
1837 The countys second post
office is established at Fort Brown.
Later that year, post offices begin at
Pauldingville (near Antwerp) and
New Harrison.
1837 Thomas Wentworth builds the first cabin
in Harrison Township, in Section 36.
1837 The first settler in Blue Creek Township is
Robert Barnhill, in Section 14.
1837-38 (circa) The Ottawa of Blanchards
Fork, Roche de Boeuf and Oquanoxas Village
leave Ohio after agreeing to leave their
reservations for new sites in Kansas. Nearly half
the people perish within five years of relocating.*
*The date is somewhat in dispute, with different sources
giving the year as 1832, 1837, 1838 or 1839.
1838 The
first newspaper
is published
in Defiance,
The Defiance Banner.
1839 Paulding County organized; New
Rochester named county seat. The first
associate judges Nathan Eaton, Gilman
C. Mudgett and John Hudson meet and
appoint Horatio N. Curtis as clerk pro
tem and Andrew J. Smith as sheriff.
1839 Benjamin F. Hollister*
plats Charloe.
*In 1832, Hollister had accompanied
a group of Ottawa and Shawnee
being relocated to Kansas. He was
listed in a Congressional record
as a conductor for the Ottawas
removal.
1839 Jonathan Ball is
the first settler of Benton
Township.
Horatio N. Curtis
Andrew J. Smith
Ohio
1840 1841 1842
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1840 Ohio population: 1.5
million. Paulding County Census:
1,034.
1840 Auglaize Township and
Washington Township organize.
1840 The county seat of
Williams County is moved from
Defiance to Bryan.
Andrew J. Smith
1840 First court held at
New Rochester with Hon.
Emery D. Potter presiding.
1840 Wabash and Erie
Canal opens between
Lafayette and the state line;
construction begins on the
Ohio section of the canal.
Construction begins on the
reservoir east of Antwerp.
1840 Charloe Post Office
is established; Fort Brown
Post Office discontinued
and changed to Charloe.
1841 Paulding County
seat transferred from New
Rochester to Charloe; Benjamin
Hollister builds the first county
courthouse there.
1841 Charloe Union Sunday
School established, the first in
the county.
1841 First settler, Shadrach
Hudson, dies (born 1775).
1841 First sawmill constructed
in Auglaize Township, about
one mile north of Junction.
1841 Antwerp is platted.
1841 New Harrison Post Office
discontinued.
1842 Junction platted by
John Mason and Nathan
Shirley. Post office opens
there.
1842 Michael Kimmell
makes the first settlement in
Paulding Township, on Flat
Rock Creek, about four miles
southeast of present-day
Paulding.
1842 Canal reservoir
completed. During
construction, each worker
receive 12 ounces of whiskey
twice a day because of the
character of the water.
1842 Pauldingville Post
Office is discontinued;
Antwerp Post Office opens.
1842 First gristmill in
Washington Township built
by William Harrell on the
Little Auglaize near Murat,
with a sawmill connected
with it.
1842 First county jail built
at Charloe.
1843 Wabash and Erie Canal
completed into Ohio, an event
celebrated on the Fourth of July in Fort
Wayne.
1843 First cabin in Paulding
Township built by John Fisher.
Ohio
1843 1844 1845
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1843 Benton
Township organized.
The first school is
taught there.
1843 First school in
Washington Township
constructed in Section
15.
1844 Harrison
Township is the sixth
to organize. The first
school is held there in
Section 36 by Caroline
Merchant.
1845 Frontier legend
Johnny Appleseed dies and
is buried in Fort Wayne.
1845 Grand Lake St. Marys
is completed. For many
years, the canal reservoir
was the largest artificial
body of water in the world,
and the largest built without
use of machinery.
1845 Defiance County is
created from territory from
township in surrounding
counties, including half
of Auglaize Township in
Paulding County.
1845 Melrose is platted by
two Scotsmen.
1845 The Miami Canal
is completed in Ohio. In
July, the first canal boat,
Marshal, owned by Kirk
Lawler and company of
Piqua, loaded with furs and
pelts, makes the trip from
Piqua to Toledo, passing
through Paulding County.















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