Editing New Philadelphia, Ohio (section)

== History ==
[[Image:Restored cottages of the Moravian Indians in Schoenbrunn, Ohio.jpg|thumb|left|Reconstructed [[Moravian Church|Moravian]] village of Schoenbrunn]]
The [[Moravian Church]], under the leadership of [[David Zeisberger]], founded Schoenbrunn ("beautiful spring"), also known as Welhik Tuppeek ("the best spring"), in 1772 as a mission to the [[Delaware Indians]].<ref name="Misencik2020"/><ref name="TerryGallagher2017">{{cite book |last1=Terry |first1=John Mark |last2=Gallagher |first2=Robert L. |title=Encountering the History of Missions (Encountering Mission): From the Early Church to Today |date=August 22, 2017 |publisher=Baker Academic |isbn=978-1-4934-0622-7 |language=English}}</ref> Schönbrunn was two miles south-east of present-day New Philadelphia, Ohio.<ref>Diary of David Zeisberger: A Moravian Missionary Among the Indians ..., [https://books.google.com/books?id=SvtlGgWl-CcC&dq=Sch%C3%B6nbrunn&pg=PA2 Volume 1], books.google.de</ref> The settlement grew to include sixty dwellings and more than 300 inhabitants, both Munsee and Germans, who drew up Ohio's first civil code and built its first Christian church and schoolhouse. Problems associated with the [[American Revolution]] prompted Schoenbrunn's closing in 1777.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/ne06/index.shtml |title= OHS - Places - Schoenbrunn Village |work= ohsweb.ohiohistory.org |access-date= August 7, 2011 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110807055305/http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/places/ne06/index.shtml |archive-date= August 7, 2011 }}</ref><ref>"''In 1781 the Schoenbrunn colony was forcibly removed by a large war party accompanied by British Indian agent [[Matthew Elliott (loyalist)|Matthew Elliott]], and over the next year or so the converts were dispersed along the shores of Lake Erie. Zeisberger was taken to Detroit, questioned by British commandant [[Arent DePeyster|Arent Schuyler DePeyster]], and released. He gathered a number of his scattered converts and, with the commandant’s assistance, set up a temporary settlement north of Detroit at New Gnadenhütten ([[Mount Clemens, Michigan|Mount Clemens]], Mich.).''" in [http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/zeisberger_david_5E.html ZEISBERGER, DAVID], biographi.ca</ref>

John Knisely, who was from Pennsylvania, wanted to settle in a location where game was more plentiful and was welcomed by the Christian Indians of [[Goshen Township, Tuscarawas County, Ohio|Goshen]]; he returned to Ohio in 1804 with his family and 33 other pioneers, hiring surveyor John Wells to plot out the modern city of New Philadelphia in the same grid style as [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>VanFossen, Erin L., "New Philadelphia in Vintage Postcards," Arcadia Publishing, 2004, p. 21.</ref>

In 1833, New Philadelphia contained county buildings, a printing office, several stores, and five taverns.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ | title=The Ohio Gazetteer, or, a Topographical Dictionary | publisher=Scott and Wright | date=1833 | access-date=December 12, 2013 | author=Kilbourn, John | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_dt48AAAAYAAJ/page/n327 343]}}</ref>