Block
Washington Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Franklin County [Ohio]:, published in 1858. 333 words, covering 5 settlements.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amlin | - | 1 | 2 | 1,625 |
| Ashleigh Village | - | - | - | 4,024 |
| Dublin | - | 47 | - | 2,552 |
| Lamb Corners | - | - | 1 | 781 |
| Sandy Corners | - | - | - | 2,177 |
Settlements in this township
5 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 1 of the 5 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
333 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.
Washington Township
This township was set off and organized by its present name in 1809.. It then comprised all of what is now Washington, all of Perry and Norwich, and part of Brown; and was composed of parts of the original townships of Franklin, Darby and Liberty. The fii'st settlement in this township was commenced in the neighborhood of where Dublin now stands, about the year 1801 or 1802. Amongst the first settlers were old Mr. Ludwick Sells, from Huntington County, Pennsylvania, and his family of sons, Samuel, Peter, Benjamin and William ; the latter one of whom is still living, in the town of Dublin. An older brother, John Sells, also removed into the same neighborhood in 1808 or 1809. In 1818, he laid out the town of Dublin, which soon became a pleasant and healthy village, and of late years a place of considerable business, with a population of some three or four hundred ; a fair proportion of stores, taverns, and mechanics, and a good mill in the immedi- ate vicinity. There are four churches in the town - Methodist, Presbyterian, Newlight and Christian - all have their church buildings. Beside the churches in town, there is a respectable German Lutheran Church within a mile or two of the village, erected within the last year. In the west part of the township the religious meetings are principally held in the school houses.
In 1855, the town was incorporated, and the borough government organized by the election of officers, etc. - Z. Hutchison, Esq., Mayor, and Wm Graham. Esq., Recorder. But, after an experiment of one year, the citizens appearing to prefer a larger amount of liberty, declined holding further elections, and let the corporate organization go down.
In 1840, the population of this township was 843. In 1850, it was 1,282. In 1853, it contained eleven school districts, and 589 youth between the ages of five and twenty-one years. In 1857, agreeably to the returns, there were only 511 of such youth.
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.