Ohio History Journal

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Reviews, Notes and Comments 587

Reviews, Notes and Comments      587

industry of its people has erected into a state, which,

though only thirty-fifth in area, has become among its

sisters of the Union fourth in population, and in wealth

exceeded only by New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois.

This text-book is a credit not only to the authors,

but to the publishers as well. By its attractive illustra-

tions, its appropriate maps and its illuminating graphics,

they have produced a work that will make its study

fascinating. Again, we say, its use in our schools should

be general.

 

SCHOENBRUNN ANNIVERSARY

The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the

building of the first schoolhouse and the first church in

the Ohio country by the Moravian missionaries at

Schoenbrunn near New Philadelphia, Ohio, was most

appropriately celebrated August 20-24, 1922.  The

celebration was inaugurated by a union meeting of the

churches of Dover and New Philadelphia in the Union

Opera House of the latter city Sunday, August 20. The

address was given by Rev. J. E. Weinland, pastor of the

Dover Moravian church, and was a most interesting his-

toric review of the early Moravian settlements in

Tuscarawas County. The address was published in full

in the local papers and is a valuable contribution to the

history of this Ohio country before it was organized as

territory or state.

On Wednesday evening, August 23, a meeting was

held in the Union Opera House of New Philadelphia

under the auspices of the Tuscarawas County Historical

Society. More than 1200 people were present. The

chairman of the meeting, Professor Fred Barthelmeh,