Mount_Tabor,_Ohio

Mount Tabor, Ohio

Mount Tabor, Ohio

Unincorporated community in Ohio, U.S.

Mount Tabor is an unincorporated community in Tuscarawas County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.[1]

History

The first settlement at Mount Tabor was made in 1830.[2] A variant name was Tabor.[1] A post office called Tabor was established in 1850, and remained in operation until 1863.[3]

Antebellum Tabor was described as "an Oberlin town", where "the people were all wonderfully devoted to the cause of free Kansas."[4] That is, they were anti-slavery.

References

  1. [1]
    U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Mount Tabor, Ohio
  2. [2]
    The History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio: Containing a History of the County; Its Townships, Towns, Churches, Schools, Etc. Warner, Beers & Company. 1884. p. 548.
  3. [3]
    "Tuscarawas County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Old-Time Kansas Anecdotes. No. viii—Old John Brown's Son". Kansas Tribune (Lawrence, Kansas). January 4, 1872. p. 2 – via newspapers.com.

40°31′12″N 81°22′23″W


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