In 1833, New Washington was platted by George Washington Meyers, and was nicknamed "Dutchtown" for the large amount of German families living there.
The early predominant language in the community was German. By 1862, industries at the time included two dry goods stores, six grocery stores, three blacksmith shops, a flouring mill, and a sawmill.
In 1872, the Pennsylvania Railroad, at the time called the Mansfield, Coldwater, and Lake Erie railroad, ran its first trains from Toledo, Ohio to New Washington. This led to an inflow of new businesses and non-German families. New Washington was incorporated as a village in 1874.
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New Washington and Cranberry Township1889 · page 90Read the page →
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held its first meeting and was organized. The various officerselectwere duly administered the oath of office. These were some of the leading events attending the birth of the municipal government of the Incorporated Village of New Washington, Ohio.
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New Washington and Cranberry Township1889 · page 60Read the page →
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Topograpliy. The tract of land which comprises the site of the Incorporated Village of New Washington, Ohio, lies on either side of the eastern boundary line of a tract of land, which, after 1820, was known as the New Purchase, in Cranberry township, Crawford county. The corporation contains an area at present of nearly a section of land and is 40° 58' North latitude and about 6° West longitude reckoning from the Meridian at Washington. As late as 1820 the site upon which the Village
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History of Crawford County, Ohio1912 · page 987Read the page →
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graduating from High School at New Washington, Charles Heydinger took a short business course at Toledo, O., and then became a clerk in a business house at New Washington and. continued from the spring of 1904 until November, 1907, when he bought a one-half interest in the Miller hardware and furniture business at New Washington. This partner-
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History of Crawford County, Ohio1912 · page 1212Read the page →
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importance. He was the first postmaster at New Washington and for several years prior to the establishment of the office here, carried the mails, once a week walking to a point four miles west of the village to meet the stage, its route not taking in New Washington. During his later years he was engaged in the mercantile business at New Washington. He was
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