The Founding of Warsaw, Ohio

In 1800, President John Adams granted 4,000 acres in the Walhonding Valley to William Simmons for his service to the United States of America as a Colonel during the Revolution and for being one of five men appointed by President George Washington to run the first United States Treasury. William Simmons daughter, Josephine, married William Carhart, a General during the War of 1812 who was instrumental in the organization of the Ohio Militia. They chose Coshocton County for their first home and built what was considered the first structure at the present-day site of Warsaw. In November 1834, William Carhart founded Warsaw by platting 32 lots on his homestead, part of the original Simmons land grant. Meanwhile, in Poland, a group of young non-commissioned officers at the Military Academy led citizens in a November revolt against the arbitrary rule of Russia, and although that struggle for freedom was not achieved for another 85 years, it inspired the naming of Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio, in honor of the Polish capital.

Warsaw, Ohio · United States