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==Businesses==
 
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===Historical One Room Schools===
 
 
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*[[School Number 1, Sugar Creek Township|No. 1 = Sugar Grove/Chestnut Grove]]
 
*[[School Number 2, Sugar Creek Township|No. 2 = Silver Hall]]
 
*[[School Number 3, Sugar Creek Township|No. 3 = Dalton Village]]
 
*[[School Number 4, Sugar Creek Township|No. 4 = Green Oak]]
 
*[[School Number 5, Sugar Creek Township|No. 5 = Moscow]]
 
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*[[School Number 6, Sugar Creek Township|No. 6 = Center/Moser]]
 
*[[School Number 7, Sugar Creek Township|No. 7 = Pleasant Valley]]
 
*[[School Number 8, Sugar Creek Township|No. 8 = Schilling's]]
 
*[[School Number 9, Sugar Creek Township|No. 9 = Boone's]]
 
*[[School Number 10, Sugar Creek Township|No. 10 = Sonnenberg]]
 
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==Cemeteries==

Revision as of 09:10, 18 July 2023

Sugar Creek Township is one of four original townships of Wayne County, Ohio, originating on April 11, 1812.[1]

It was formed from all of the originally surveyed townships 16, 17, and 18 in range 11, and the northern part of township 15 in range 11, along with all of townships 16, 17, and 18 in range 12, with the northern part of township 15 in range 12.[2]

Reportedly named after a creek.[3]

Supposedly James Goudy started the third permanent white settlement in Wayne County in the fall of 1809 when he settled two miles southwest of Dalton.[4]

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Place Names

Present Name Former Name(s) Plat Date
Angelville
Dalton Dover, Middletown, Sharon Dover surveyed 16 Oct 1817, Sharon surveyed 29 Mar 1828
Kidron
Kidron Station Sonnenberg Station
Moscow

McQuaid, No. 1 P.O.

1815; vacated 1878
Riceland (pt Sugar Creek,

pt East Union)

Silver Hill
Snake Hollow
Snively
Sonneberg

Maps

The department has several plat maps for viewing. Plat maps include land owners names and the location of their property.

1807 Federal Survey Map of Sugar Creek 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

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Businesses

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Newspaper Articles

Newspaper Full-Text Articles

Early Wayne County History
Sugarcreek Township
Sugarcreek was one of the original four townships of the county. Along with Wooster, Mohican, and Prairie it was formed in 1812.

The limits of present day Dalton formerly embraced three villages: Middletown, Dover, and Sharon. Their existence ceased with the formation and incorporation of Dalton, the latter done in 1856.

—Harry B. Stapler, The Wooster Daily Record, 1940-MAR-09

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References

  1. Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 843.
  2. Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 56.
  3. Wayne County Scrapbook, compliments of McIntire,Davis & Greene Funeral Home.
  4. Wayne County Scrapbook, compliments of McIntire,Davis & Greene Funeral Home.

External Links

Sugar Creek, Wayne County, Ohio - Wikipedia