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===1807 Federal Survey Map of Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio===
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File:R11T17-Baughman-1807FedSurvey.jpg|Baughman Township Survey Map 1807
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===1856 Baker's Map of Wayne County, Ohio===
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File:BaughmanTwpColor.jpg|Baughman Township
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===1873 Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County, Ohio===
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File:Baughman.jpg|Baughman Township
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===1897 Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County, Ohio===
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===Historical Documents===
 
===Historical Documents===
 
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===Indices to Maps===
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* Index to [[Caldwell's Atlas (1873)/Baughman Township]]
 
* Index to [[Caldwell's Atlas (1897)/Baughman Township]]
 
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==

Revision as of 09:03, 19 July 2023

Baughman Township was established March 5, 1816 and named after John Baughman, the first white settler.[1] John was recorded as the first white man to be granted a deed in Wayne county.[2] The township had a lot of swamp area. [3]

It was formed from the originally surveyed township 17, range 11.[4]

There were 10 country schools around 1900, but they were almost all closed by 1938 and the students were sent to either Dalton, Orrville, or Marshallville.

There were a lot of coal mines in the early 1900's.[5]

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1807 Federal Survey Map of Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio

1856 Baker's Map of Wayne County, Ohio

1873 Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County, Ohio

1897 Caldwell's Atlas of Wayne County, Ohio


External Links

  1. Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 698.
  2. Founder of Twp. Relative Dies. The Courier-Crescent, 7 Aug 1928.
  3. Wayne County History Book Committee. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987. pg. 22.
  4. Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 57.
  5. Wayne County History Book Committee. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987. pg. 22.