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Brown Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published in 1858. 328 words, covering 4 settlements.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
4 settlementsWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Chase | - | - | 4 | 1,171 |
| Hampton Reserve | - | - | 4 | 1,962 |
| Hayden | - | 1 | 2 | 1,537 |
| Mudsock | - | 8 | 6 | 3,829 |
Settlements in this township
4 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 4 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
328 wordsReproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1858 printing, so expect the errors a machine makes reading a century-old page: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the book's own.
Brown Township
This eighteenth and hist township of the county ^vas set off and organized in the spring of 1830, by its present boundaries. It was taken from Norwich, Prairie and Washington, and had originally been part of Franklin Township. A few improvements were made along Darby Creek about 1808 or '10.
Amongst the first settlers were James Boyd, John Hayden, John Patterson and Mr. Rinier. Though there were but few settlers back from the creek until from 1825 to 1830, when the Welch commenced settling in this township, and it has of late years been filling up fast, and bids fair to make a rich and flourishing township.
There is as yet, however, no grist mill in the township. There have been two saw mills, one erected on Darby Creek by Isaac Ilayden in 1837 ; the other a
There is no town or village in this township, but there was a post office established in it in July, 1848, and named " Darby post office." Joseph O'Harra, Esq., the present incumbent, was appointed the first postmaster.
About the year 1847 or '48, an association of colored people having purchased a tract of land in this township, w^ith a view of establishing a seminary for the education of colored children, erected their building for that purpose, and opened their school, which has generally been kept in operation since. There are some four or five families of blacks residing there, and they generally have a few pupils from a distance.
There is but one church building in the township, and it belongs to the Methodist denomination. Religious meetings, however, are held occasionally by the Presbyterians and Baptists, and also by the Methodists, in the school houses.
In 1840, the population of this township was 425. In 1850, it was 681. In 1853, it comprised six school districts, and an aggregate of 310 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, the aggregate of such youth w^as 334.
Provenance
Text from History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, by Martin, William T., 1788-1866. [from Old Catalog], published 1858 and in the public domain in the United States. Digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.