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$99,418
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Canal Winchester, OH - History
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Welcome to the Canal Winchester Home page. The Canal Winchester Home page provides as much information as possible on Canal Winchester. Knowing Canal Winchester’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Canal Winchester’s Home page, you will also find Canal Winchester’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Canal Winchester has a population of 9148. 49.8% of Canal Winchester’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.2 are female. 59.6% of Canal Winchester is married and 81.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $205,362, and the average rent is $986. Household median income in Canal Winchester is $99,418, and the individual median income is $39,240. Canal Winchester’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.9%), Black(6.9%), Multiple(3.7%), Hispanic(1.9%), Asian(0.5%).
Canal Winchester was founded in 1828 by Reuben Dove and John Colman. When construction of the Ohio & Erie Canal came through Dove's wheat field, he wanted to sue the state. The canal workmen instead convinced him that he would be better off laying out a town, because the area was midway between Columbus and Lancaster.
On November 4, 1828, Dove and Colman recorded the first plat for Winchester, Ohio, in Violet Township, Fairfield County. Dove named the village after his father's hometown of Winchester, Virginia.Winchester flourished because of agriculture and transportation. The Ohio and Erie Canal brought passengers, freight and a means to transport grain to market.
The first canal boat floated through Winchester in 1831. The village was named Canal Winchester when the post office was established in 1841, because there were five other locations in the state named Winchester.A local legend explains how Canal Winchester received its post office. On Halloween, October 31, 1841, two teenage boys, as a prank, hooked two horses up to the foundation of the post office of the town of Waterloo and then pulled it across the street to Winchester.
With this, the town of Waterloo was no more and Winchester was a legitimate village. The village was annexed to Madison Township, Franklin County, in 1851. In May 1866, the Ohio Secretary of State granted incorporation papers for the Village of Canal Winchester. In 1869, the railroad came to Canal Winchester, bringing continued prosperity.
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