Dover

by Matthew S. Lautzenheiser, Dover Historical Society

Overview

In 1807, Christian Deardorff and Jesse Slingluff set out for the Ohio frontier. Before leaving, the men laid out the plat of a village that would sit at the banks of the Tuscarawas River. Over the next 10 years as Deardorff toiled away in his bachelor cabin, he held on to the dream of building his vision. The original plat map the two men devised contained 256 lots with land set aside for churches, schools, and a spacious downtown square. Today, over 200 years after Slingluff and Deardorff filed their plat at Zanesville, Dover continues to reflect their vision of a pleasant little town situated on the Tuscarawas River.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738577128
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	11/23/2009
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Matthew S. Lautzenheiser grew up in Dover and attended Dover schools. He has been the director of the Dover Historical Society and J. E. Reeves Home since 2005. The J. E. Reeves Home is a beautiful fully restored, late-19th-century Victorian home complete with many original furnishings. The images for Dover were provided by the Dover Historical Society. Since 1958, the Dover Historical Society has been committed to preserving and sharing the rich and unique history of Dover and the greater Tuscarawas Valley.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 People, Homes, and Happenings 9

2 Dover Schools, Sports, and Churches 35

3 Buggies, Trains, Trolleys, Cars, and Canal Boats 55

4 Dover Businesses, Big and Small 67

5 The Civil War to World War I 91

6 Dover City and Social Services 103

7 The Flood of 1913 119