Newtown, Ohio
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Location in Ohio
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Hamilton County | ||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 8 ′ N , 84 ° 21 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 2,420 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 403.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 6.0 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 6.0 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 152 m | ||
| Postal code : | 45244 | ||
| Area code : | +1 513 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-55678 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1065151 | ||
| Website : | www.villageofnewtown.com | ||
| Mayor : | Curt Cosby | ||
Newtown is a place in County Hamilton in the American state of Ohio , about 20 km east of downtown Cincinnati . The place is on the south bank of the Little Miami River . Newtown has about 2,400 inhabitants (as of the 2000 census ) - less than half of the 5,000 required here for the declaration of the city, and is therefore considered a " village ".
history
The place was first settled by whites in 1792 under the name Mercer's Station , including Captain Aaron Mercer, after whom the settlement was named. 1801 the place was parceled out by General James Taylor (1769-1848) and officially founded. The growth of the place was initially driven by a gravel pit and a brick kiln. Many of the early houses were built from the locally made bricks, which is rather unusual for this construction period.
In the area around Newtown there are a number of prehistoric archaeological monuments, two of which were in the National Register of Historic Places added: the "Odd Fellows Cemetery Mound" is a grave mound from the Adena culture , which was first described in the 1881st The "Hahn Field Archeological District" contains finds from the Fort Ancient and Late Woodland cultures .
Personalities
- John Lambert Richmond (1787–1845), Baptist minister and physician, performed the first published Caesarean section in North America in 1827 , co-founder of the medical schools at Denison University (Ohio) and Franklin College (Indiana).
- Judson Harmon (1846–1927), lawyer and politician, was United States Attorney General and then Governor of Ohio.
- Erich Maren Schlaikjer (1905–1972), geologist and paleontologist, collaborator with Barnum Brown .
Web links
- Newtown, Ohio history on the town's website
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Writers' Project: Cincinnati: A Guide to the Queen City and Its Neighbors . Cincinnati 1943, pp. 481-484. (New edition by US History Publishers, ISBN 1603540512 )
- ↑ National Register of Historic Places: Ohio, County Hamilton : "Odd Fellows' Cemetery Mound", Mound no. 9, Group C (Metz, 1881) (NRHP 1973, # 73001474)
- ↑ National Register of Historic Places: Ohio, County Hamilton : Hahn Field Archeological District (NRHP listing 1974, # 74001519)
- ↑ James Thomas Flexner: Doctors on Horseback: Pioneers of American Medicine . Fordham University Press, New York 1993, pp. 205-209. ISBN 082321379X .