Tuscarawas County Ohio Genealogy Trails A part of the Genealogy Trails History Group   Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists Ohio is covered under our "Midwest" mailing list. Tuscarawas County  On March 15, 1808, Tuscarawas County became the 27th county to be officially recognized by the State of Ohio.  Early meetings of the county officials were held in a local tavern and on June 28, 1808, the County Commissioners authorized the building of a two-story structure with a jail on the first floor and county offices on the second.  A contract for this log building which also served as a church was given to Peter Minnich for $1,500.  It was 30' by 40' and was constructed on lots provided by New Philadelphia founder, John Knisely Tuscarawas County Courthouse 101 E. High Ave. New Philadelphia 44663 (330) 364-8811  Municipalities Baltic - Barnhill - Bolivar - Dennison - Dover - Gnadenhutten - Midvale - Mineral City - New Philadelphia - Newcomerstown - Parral - Port Washington - Roswell - Stone Creek - Strasburg - Sugarcreek - Tuscarawas - Uhrichsville - Zoar Townships Auburn - Bucks - Clay - Dover - Fairfield - Franklin - Goshen - Jefferson - Lawrence - Mill - Oxford - Perry - Rush - Salem - Sandy - Sugar Creek - Union ONLINE DATA BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES  DEATHS HISTORY WILLS SUBMIT AN OBIT       Website Updates: SURROUNDING COUNTIES: CARROLL (northeast) COSHOCTON (southwest) GUERNSEY (south) HARRISON (southeast) HOLMES (northwest) STARK (north)   Back to the OHIO State Page JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY Submitters retain all copyrights ©2008 Genealogy Trails