Schoenbrunn Village in Ohio’s Tuscarawas County is a partial reconstruction of an 18th-century Delaware Indian mission that calls itself Ohio’s first organized settlement and first Christian settlement.
Schoenbrunn and another Indian mission at Gnadenhutten predated Ohio’s first permanent settlement, Marietta, by 15 years. Today Schoenbrunn consists of 17 log buildings, gardens, the original mission cemetery (known as God’s Acre, with 44 stone-marked burials) and a little museum and visitor center.
The village, owned by the Ohio Historical Society, is just southeast of New Philadelphia at the southern terminus of the Ohio and Erie Canal Scenic Byway that runs north through Akron to Cleveland.
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