New Harrison, Ohio

In 1816, Armstrong Campbell settled on Section 30, on land cleared by Studabaker, who, the same year, moved to Greenville. William Stewart also came in 1816, and located in the Studabaker opening, on Section 36, where Washington Cromer now lives. After this, the township settled rapidly. Adams was a genial, fun-loving man, widely known and deservedly popular ; a crowd of congenial spirits gathered about him, and the little settlement took the name of " Adams' Mills,'' and when the township was finally organized, it was named in his honor. During the years 1816 and 1817, William Cunningham, Samuel Robinson, Barton Fairchild, Thomas McCune, Josiah Carr, John Meyer, Zadoc Reagan, Zachariah March and Ebenezer Byram, settled at and near New Harrison.

Passage source: The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880.

Samuel Horner was the first teacher. A subscription school, taught by Jacob Hersher, is said to have been the first in Adams Township. The first church was erected by the Lutherans, on land now owned by Francis Keefauner, in or about 1834. It is still standing. Besides this, there is Catholic Church at Bradford ; a Presbyterian, a Methodist and a Lutheran, at Gettysburg ; and a Dunkard. elsewhere in the township. New Harrison was laid out in 1837. by Samuel Robinson, who was the first Justice of the Peace in the township.

Passage source: The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880.

Between the years 1827 and 1831. quite a number of families emigrated from Adams County, Penn.. and settled in the east central part of the township, where they laid out and built up the village of Gettysburg, which took its name from Gettysburg, Penn. The nominal founder of the village was John Hershy. The place was incorporated in 1866. Bradford was laid out in 1865. and duly incorporated in 1871. In 1830, Adams Township contained 529 persons, and. in 1870, 2.201. The topography of Adams Township may be gathered from the following description : It contains thirty-eight sections ; the four southern tiers are six and a half miles in extent from east to west, and the two northern tiers four and a half, making the area thirty-five square miles. The southeastern corner of Richland Township takes the sections that shorten the northern tiers. Stillwater, Bolton's Run. Greenville and Harris Creeks traverse the township. The first named enters near the center of the north line of Section 5. runs south and southeast in its general course about a mile, thence eastward a mile to the boundary of the township, between Sections 4 and 0. Bolton's Run enters at the northwestern corner of the township, runs southeast nearly two miles into Section 1 2. thence south of east one mile, thence in its general course east two and a half miles to the township line. Greenville Creek enters the township less than half a mile from the southeast corner, runs in a northwest course to New Harrison, thence southwest, thence north of east to Gettysburg, and through Stolbyz's addition, thence southeast near the line between the first and second tier of sections to the center of the northern part of Section 30, thence south, then nearly east, to the eastern boundary of said section, a little more than a half-mile from the southeast corner of the township. Two railroads cross Adams Township ; the}- have an equal angle of divergence from Bradford, the C. C. & I. C. and the Pan Handle (old C, P. & I.), the first-named in a direction south of west past Gettysburg, below New Harrison, and thence to the southwest corner of the township ; the second, in a direct line to Horatio, and leaving the township midway between that place and Stelvidio. in Richland Township.

Passage source: The History of Darke County, Ohio, Containing a History of the County; Its Cities, Towns, Etc.; General and Local Statistics; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men;, published 1880.

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