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444 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES CHAPTER XXVIII GREEN TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY-TOPOGRAPHY-POPULATION-EARLY SETTLEMENT-VILLAGES - HOPEDALE - FOLK - UNIONVALE - SKIT-GINTHER - RAILROADS-ORGANIC . Green Township is situated along the eastern line of Harrison County and is bounded by German Township on the north, Jefferson County on the east, Shortcreek Township on the south and Archer and Cadiz townships on the west. This is a rough surfaced area of land and has many coal mines within its limits which are being extensively worked today. Numerous small streams course their way through this part of the county. Aside from the mining interests at Unionvale and other points in the township, it is an excellent farming and stock raising section. Its territory is five by seven miles in extent. THE RAILROADS OF THIS TOWNSHIP The township is better supplied with steam railroads than any other part of Harrison County. These railways are the Wabash, the Lake Erie & Western, the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania system. (See Railroad Chapter of this volume.) ORGANIC Green Township was organized in 1807 while Harrison was yet a part of Jefferson County. It took on its present boundary in 1833 when the present sub-divisions of the county were formed by the county commissioners. With the multiplied years the people of this township have been ever ready in times of war and in days of peace, to aid in doing its share toward making an excellent county government. POPULATION In 1890 the United States census gage this township a population of I,650; in 1900 it had 1,468, and in 1910 it was placed at 1,618. The recent United States census returns gives the population of this township as 2,008. EARLY SETTLEMENT Before 1814 the following settlers came to Green Township: John Baker, before 1805, from Pennsylvania ; Henry Barriger, 1813, from Adams County, Pennsylvania ; William Birney, 1813 ; James Black, 1806, from Adams County, Pennsylvania ; Anthony Bricker, 1804; George Brokaw, before 1805, from Pennsylvania; John Calwell, 1808, from Fayette County, Pennsylvania ; Alexander Cassil, 1806, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; Joseph Clark, 1806, from West- CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 445 moreland County ; John Craig, 1803, from Donegal Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Croskey, before 1805, from New Jersey; Robert Croskey, before 1805, from Pennsylvania ; Robert Davidson, before 1805, from Pennsylvania ; Phillip Deleny, 1806; Henry Ferguson, 1806, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; Archibald Fletcher, 1813, from Adams County, Pennsylvania ; James Ford, 1808, from Brooke County, West Virginia ; John Fowler, before 1810, from Maryland; John Fulton, 1806, from Fayette County, Pennsylvania; John Gardner, 1810, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; Hugh Gwynn, 1813; William Hanna, 1805, from Pennsylvania; William Hogg, 1804, from Fayette County, Pennsylvania ; William Holmes, before 1804, from Pennsylvania ; Joseph Kent, 1806, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Laughlin, before 1806, from Pennsylvania; Caleb Merryman, 1807, from Baltimore County, Maryland; Jane Milligan, 1811, from Adams County, Pennsylvania; Mark Milliken, before 1812, from Pennsylvania; William Moore, before 1805, from Hopewell Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Nicodemus, before 1805; John Oldshoe, before 1806; Robert Orr, before 1805, from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania ; William Orr, 1812 ; Joseph Pumphrey, 1806; William Pumphrey, 1806; John Ramsey, before 1805, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; Thomas Rankin, before 1807; Rev. John Rea, 1804, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Shephard, 1807 ; Jacob Shepler, 1806, from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania ; Martin Snyder, before 1805; John Stapler, 1806, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Galbreath Stewart, 1805, from West Middletown, Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Taggaert, before 1805, from Washington County, Pennsylvania; Hugh Tease, 1806; Edmund Tipton, about 1814; John Wallace, 1804, from Tork County, Pennsylvania ; William Watt, before 1804, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; Bazaleel Wells, of Steubenville, 1805; Daniel Welch, before 1803, from Cecil Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Wilson, 1806, from Washington County, Pennsylvania ; John Young, 1814, from Anne Arundel County, Maryland. VILLAGE OF HOPEDALE Hopedale, better known than any other place in the township, possibly as well as any place in the county, on account of its having been the seat of Hopedale College so long a term of years-See Educational Chapter. This village was platted by Cyrus McNeely, October 15, 1849 and filed for record July 30, 1851. It is situated in section 9, and is now within the point made by the Wabash and Lake Erie & Wheeling railways and is more than a half mile from either highway. Hopedale has a Presbyterian, Methodist Episcopal and a Christian or Disciples Church, and the reader is referred to the chapter on the churches of the county in this volume. Several years ago there was a Woodman lodge organized in Hopedale, but the details of the same are not at hand at this time. The business interests of the village in the autumn of 1920 were as follows: 446 - CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES Postoffice of the fourth class, with W. S. Eagleson as postmaster. One rural free delivery route extends to the outlying country. Banking-The First National Bank. Hardware—T. B. Patton. Groceries—S. A. Hines, A. D. Finnicum, T. W. Liggett, Jr., Frank Genangel, Mrs. James Nichols, Roy Hoogler, and a small stock of confectionery and groceries with school supplies are sold at the postoffice by W. S. Eagleson. Meat Market—This is kept by J. W. Fogle and T. W. Liggett, Jr. Millinery Store—Hattie Minor. Blacksmith Shop—James Frazier and Fred Christian. Shoe shop, a bakery and the flouring mills, with an incorporated creamery company operating successfully, completes the list of dealers of today. The physician of Hopedale is now Dr. W. S. Spence. Of the Hopedale mills it should be recorded that they are of a very early date. The four-story structure is built in the pioneer fashion of fourteen inch hewed timber frame, with pegs or wooden pins holding the joints together. Originally it was run as a steam mill and used the old style mill-stones, but for many years it has been a roller process mill and has run by both natural gas and crude oil. For more than ten years it has been owned and operated by the Stringer Brothers. Hopedale is an incorporated village ; its present clerk is U. G. Kyle. The present population is 561. COAL MINING INDUSTRY The entire country at and near Hopedale is underlaid with a good, paying quality and quantity of soft coal—the celebrated Pittsburgh or seam No. 8, predominating. In the last few years this industry has taken on a new mode of operation. Dozens of steam shovels are at work in Green Township and Hopedale, at stripping the rich soil from off the bed of coal and shipping in immense amounts. There is some combined shaft and stripping coal mining, but largely confined to stripping, as the coal is gotten out much cheaper. Of course this generation is not looking to the interests of the succeeding generation, otherwise this stripping and destroying the fertile farming lands would not be permitted or thought of being engaged in by capitalists. But be that as it may the coal fields about Hopedale are producing large amounts of excellent coal which is easily transported, for there are three railroads within the short radius of the best mines. HAMLET OF FOLK This is simply a railroad junction point of the Wheeling & Lake Erie and the Pennsylvania midway between Cadiz and Cadiz junction. SKIT STATION Skit is a station on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad in section 28 and is between Jewett and Folk station. CARROLL AND HARRISON COUNTIES - 447 GINTHER Ginther is a station point on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway in section 10. It has less than one hundred population. UNIONVALE VILLAGE Unionvale Village is situated in the center of section 17, and is not a platted corporation, but a center of a mining region and is supplied largely from Cadiz merchants with its necessary merchandise. A large number of Austrians and other foreigners are here employed as coal miners. It is about four miles to the east of Cadiz. 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