New Garden, Ohio

New Garden, Ohio
Unincorporated community
New Garden United Methodist Church
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Coordinates: 40°47′43″N 80°55′34″W
Country	United States
State	Ohio
County	Columbiana
Township	Hanover
Elevation [1]	1,286 ft (392 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	44423
GNIS feature ID	1057866[1]

New Garden is an unincorporated community in Hanover Township, Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.^[1] New Garden is located on Ohio State Route 172, 9 mi (14 km) west of Lisbon.

History

New Garden was laid out in 1810.^[2] A post office called New Garden was established in 1830, and remained in operation until 1893.^[3]

Quaker missionary Stephen Grellet passed through New Garden in 1824, and wrote in Chapter 66 of his memoirs that he was under "great depression of body and mind", mentioning the "powers of anti-Christ" and that many in the New Garden Quaker community "are among those who are carried away by the spirit of infidelity".^[4]

An auxiliary of the American Anti-Slavery Society was formed in New Garden in 1834.^[5]

In 1848, African-American abolitionist and author Martin Delany traveled through the community to report on the struggles of free blacks, and wrote of the "'respectable and praiseworthy' black farmers of New Garden, Ohio".^[6]

A 28 ft (8.5 m) long covered bridge, built in 1978, is located in Eagle Pass Golf Course in New Garden.^[7]

Recreation

Guilford Lake State Park is 2.5 mi (4.0 km) east of New Garden, and Zeppernick Wildlife Area is 3 mi (4.8 km) west.

Notable person

• Robert B. Wood, awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Civil War

References

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: New Garden, Ohio
2. McCord, William B. (1905). History of Columbiana County, Ohio and Representative Citizens. Biographical Publishing Company. p. 282.
3. "Columbiana County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
4. Grellet, Staphen (1860). Memoirs of the Life and Gospel Labours of Stephen Grellet. Bennett. p. 164.
5. Foster, Emily (2002). American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio Frontier. University Press of Kentucky. p. 156. ISBN 0813129516.
6. Levine, Robert S. (1997). Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity. University of North Carolina Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780807862919.
7. Travis, Dale (June 6, 2014). "Ohio Covered Bridges List". Dale J. Travis.