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Its Register listing is the Town Pump of East Sparta, The. Below: old-book passages.
East Sparta dates its founding to 1815 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1854.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how East Sparta’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of East Sparta.
East Sparta was originally called Sparta, and under the latter name was laid out in 1815 and named after the ancient city of Sparta in Greece.
On June 3, 2015, East Sparta's 70-year-old water tower was dismantled. On July 28, 2017, East Sparta's Towne Pump Tavern built in 1909 burned down.
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Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
BuiltTown Pump of East Sparta, The is builtPassages that mention East Sparta, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Jeremiah Steiner continued his residence in his native commonwealth until 1853, when he came to Ohio and numbered himself among the substantial young agriculturists of Stark County. He obtained a farm two miles west of the Village of East Sparta, Pike Township, and he continued his active and successful operations as a farmer and stock grower of that township until 1908, from w'hich time he lived virtually retired in the City of Canton until his death, June 15, 1915. His life was one of signal rectitude and industry, he achieved independence and
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retire from the farm into the Village of East Sparta, where he lived practically retired until his death on November 20, 1910, at the age of sixty-two. He was a member of the Grand Army of the Republic.
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East Sparta’s post office has been open since 1908. Another post office, Pierce, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
In 1815, according to Wikidata. East Sparta’s post office opened in 1854.
One place: the Town Pump of East Sparta, The (listed 2009).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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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