Electricity Rates in New Holland, OH

History of New Holland

In 1818 the original settlers—Pennsylvania Dutch, Hollanders, and Germans—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 Indian foot trail going from north to south. This crossing is today the Main and 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, Virginia, who settled in New Holland in 1802. The name remained until about 1825 when the people were thinking about having a Post Office. The settlers being of Dutch descent, renamed their settlement New Holland, 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 Civil War when a portion of General Sherman's Union Army marched through the covered bridge on Zanesville Cincinnati Trace [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 Henry Ford Museum at Dearborn, Michigan.

New Holland by the Numbers

Population

2,143

Median Age

38.2 yrs

Median Household Income

$78,125/yr

Median Home Value

$171,300

Homeownership Rate

76%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-Year Estimates (2023)