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Springfield Township
The complete chapter on this township from Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908. 139 words, covering 5 settlements. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Krumroy | - | 9 | 11 | 720 |
| Lakemore | - | 10 | 9 | 711 |
| Millheim | - | - | 10 | 563 |
| Sawyerwood | - | - | 10 | 714 |
| The Willows | - | - | 8 | 605 |
Settlements in this township
5 placesEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. 2 of the 5 are named in the chapter; the rest were founded later or were never more than a post office.
The chapter
139 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Springfield Township
Springfield township was first settled in 1806, when Ariel Bradley moved from Suffield to what is now the village of ^logadore. Other early settlers were Thomas Hale, Benjamin Baldwin, John Hall, James Hall, Nathan Moore, Reuben Tupper, Abraham De- Haven, the Ellet family, the Norton family, Patrick Christy, James McKnight, William Foster et alii. The township was organized in April, 1808. The manufacturing of the township is all in the pottery line, as great beds of potter's clay are found here. Coal is also mined. Mogadore is the principal village. North Springfield, Brittain, Thomastown, Millheim and Krumroy are also flourishing hamlets. Springfield furnished nearly 150 men to the Federal armies in the Ci\-il War. At the present time, J. Ira Emmet is township clerk, and R. C. Gates, Milo White and M. S. Mishler are justices of the peace.
Provenance
Text from Centennial History of Summit County, Ohio and Representative Citizens, published 1908, in the public domain in the United States and 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.