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Washington Township

The complete chapter on this township from Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, published in 1897. 35 words, covering 3 settlements.

Contents

1 section

The section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.

The modern record here

3 settlements

What 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.

SettlementFires Storm reportsMines and quarries Specimens
Otsego3-4695
Tontogany3132713
Williamsburg-On-The-River3-2697

Settlements in this township

3 places

Every populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 2 of the 3 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.

The chapter

35 words

Reproduced complete and unedited. The text is machine-read from a scan of the 1897 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

False Alarm - A Sweet Speculation - Early Schools - Board of Education - Otsego - Benton - Germany.. 406-411 Tontogany Village - Municipal Elections, and Officials - Post Office - Trade and Traders - Churches - Societies. 411-414

Provenance

Text from Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County, Ohio; Its Past and Present, by J. H. Beers & Co., published 1897 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.