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From Wikipedia’s history of Dundee.
Dundee was laid out and platted in 1847. A post office called Dundee has been in operation since 1847.
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History · Dundee
Dundee’s post office opened in 1847, and 93% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1914 on and old-book passages.
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How Dundee began
When was Dundee founded?
1847
The Dundee post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name.
2020 census: 269179 years
Founding year: the first Dundee post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
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Dundee on the map, 1914 to 1994
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Dundee. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1914Navarre sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Dundee.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Dundee in 1884
Passages that mention Dundee, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio1884 · page 684Read the page →
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In 1847, Michael Wallick laid out twelve lots in School Lot 1, of the first quarter of Township 9, Range 4, at the crossing of the Shanesville & Navarre with the Dover & Winesburg roads, and called tne place Dundee. The same year Edward Jones had eight Lots, 13 to 20, surveyed on the opposite side of the Shanesville & Navarre road, as an addition to the town of Dundee. Caleb Jones, in 1872, made a further addition of four lots to the hitherto unpreton - Digitized by ^.ooQle
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The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio1884 · page 685Read the page →
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tious village. It had, in 1870, a population of 106; in 1880, of 147. The Coshocton branch of the Connotton Railway, built in 1883, passes near the village, and is proving a material advantage. Dundee contains two dry goods stores, a grocery, a stove and tin store, a millinery store, a blacksmith shop, three shoe shops, and two wagon shops. Its schoolhouse is a handsome twostury frame structure, built in 1869, and containing below two apartments, used for school purposes, and a large public hall above. The first school - house was a log building, which stood on the hill, east of town. Charles
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
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Ben RoderickAmerican football player · b. 1899
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Owen ScheetzAmerican professional baseball pitcher · b. 1913T
Ted ProvostPlayer of American and Canadian football · b. 1948D
Dale R. SprankleAmerican football coach · b. 1898Questions about Dundee’s history
What year was Dundee founded?
The Dundee post office opened in 1847, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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Where this page comes from
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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