Information concerning the government of Baughman Twp.
Baughman Township, Wayne County, Ohio
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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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- ↑ Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 698.
- ↑ Founder of Twp. Relative Dies. The Courier-Crescent, 7 Aug 1928.
- ↑ Wayne County History Book Committee. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987. pg. 22.
- ↑ Douglass, Ben. History of Wayne County, Ohio. Indianapolis: Robert Douglass Publisher, 1878. pg. 57.
- ↑ Wayne County History Book Committee. A History of Wayne County, Ohio. Dallas: Taylor Publishing Company, 1987. pg. 22.