Editing New Holland, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:New Holland Business Directory 1858.jpg|thumb|New Holland, Ohio, original 58 lots, streets, and alleys.]]
In 1818 the original settler's native of [[Pennsylvania Dutch]], [[Dutch Americans|Hollanders]], and [[Germans]]<ref name=":0" /> settled on "Four Corners," a tract of land in the [[Virginia Military District]], granted to Wilkins Ogden in 1802. This tact was so called because it was, in a wilderness, the intersection of a stagecoach line running east and west, and an [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] foot trail going from north to south. This crossing is today the Main and [[U.S. Route 22|Front Street]] intersection. 

The settlement soon outgrew its descriptive name and was then called Flemingsburgh, for John Fleming, son of Captain Fleming of [[Berkeley County, West Virginia|Berkeley County, Virginia]], who settled in New Holland in 1802. The name remained until about 1825 when the people were thinking about having a [[Post office|Post Office]].<ref name=":1" /> The settlers being of Dutch descent, renamed their settlement New Holland,<ref name=":2" /> the name it remains today.

Most of the houses were log cabins build in a small cluster. There were few business places for trading at that time.

The state chartered New Holland as a village in 1834.

One of the most dramatic events in New Holland's history came after the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] when a portion of [[William Tecumseh Sherman|General Sherman's]] [[Union Army]] marched through the covered bridge on Zanesville Cincinnati Trace [<nowiki/>[[U.S. Route 22]]] and through New Holland. This covered bridge, which spanned over North Fork of Paint Creek on U.S. Route 22, was built in 1840, stood until 1943. Some have claimed that the old, covered bridge is now preserved in the [[The Henry Ford|Henry Ford Museum]] at [[Dearborn, Michigan]]. While Henry Ford did express admiration for the bridge, its remnants were used as scrap wood. <ref>{{Cite news |last=Kelley |first=B. E. |date=November 28, 1962 |title=Famed Covered Bridge Doomed 20 Years Ago |work=The Record Herald}}</ref>