Founding year: the first Tuscarawas post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Tuscarawas’ History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Tuscarawas is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns. Its age holds the grade up; its National Register listings pull it down.
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HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Tuscarawas’ overall grade.
Ohio towns list about as much on the Register as the country (a typical Ohio town has 2.9 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Tuscarawas’ 0.0 sits below most of its state (23% of Ohio towns have fewer) while its 0 listings outnumber those of 23% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C+ to B+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.6 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Tuscarawas’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
According to Chester Hale Sipe (1880), the town was founded in 1756 by Tamaqua, also known as King Beaver. Sipe says: "As early as 1756, [Tamaqua] established the town of Tuscarawas, on the river of the same name in Ohio, a town which was later known as King Beaver's Town. There he died in 1771."
A post office called Tuscarawas has been in operation since 1828. The village derives its name from the Tuscarora Indians.
Passages that mention Tuscarawas, cut from the printed page as they were published.
The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio1884 · page 350Read the page →
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the territory that is now included in it which formerly belonged to Tuscarawas County, consequently at this date passed from the jurisdiction of Tuscarawas; by the same act, all that territory now belonging to Harrison, which had theretofore formed a part of Tuscarawas, was annexed to Harrison, and Tuscarawas County assumed its present shape and boundaries. Digitized by
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life, and educate the Indian natives. With this motive he left Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1762, with Christian Frederick Post, and in the usual time they reached the head waters of the Muskingum of that day, but Tuscarawas of this day. Post had been to the Tuscarawas in 1761, ami erected a small house on the bank of the river, above the present village of Bolivar, which was the first house (except traders' cabins) built in the valleys by a subject of the Eng-
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The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio1884 · page 396Read the page →
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The Connotton Valley Railroad (narrow gauge), which has been constructed through the western portion of Tuscarawas County during the past year, and is now completed to Coshocton, is the outcome of many railroad enterprises. The Carroll County Railroad Company was chartered by an act passed March 9. 1850, and was authorized to bu ild a railroad from Carrollton to a point on the Sandy and Beaver Canal. The road was constructed from Carrollton to Oneida, Carroll County, a station on the Cleveland & Pittsburgh road, twelve miles, laid with strap iron, and was opened for business in 1854. It
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Detroit induced the British Indians to retire from the Tuscarawas to Sandusky, under Captain Pipe, from whence they returned in squads with their friends, the Wyamlots, and annoyed the Tuscarawas settlements; as well as the whole Ohio River country. In the fall of 1789, they came down under the British flag, captured and drove to the Sandusky the missionaries and their converts, and had Heckewelder, Zeisberger, and Senseman sent to Detroit to
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Between 391 and 1,056 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Tuscarawas’ Wikipedia page.
Places that used to be
Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Tuscarawas’s post office has been open since 1828.
Hamlets and corners on the map
Clearview Mobile Home Park
Gone or out of use
Tuscarawas Stationlocale
1cemetery inside Tuscarawas
Saint James Lutheran
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Tuscarawas’ history
What year was Tuscarawas founded?
The Tuscarawas post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Tuscarawas rank for history?
Tuscarawas is more historic than 56% of U.S. towns. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
How old are the homes in Tuscarawas?
16% of Tuscarawas’ homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.6 points), against a typical 15% for an Ohio town; the median home was built in 1992.
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).
From Wikimedia Commons (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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