right , 300px, Former United Methodist Church next to graveyard with tombstone of Cy Young Peoli is an

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in Washington Township,

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, along State Route 258.

Location

Situated between

Newcomerstown Newcomerstown is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, east-northeast of Columbus. In the late 1770s, this was the largest Delaware Indian village on the Tuscarawas River, with 700 residents. Chief Newcomer (''Netawatwes'') was ...

and Freeport, it is made up of approximately ten houses and the Peoli Church (1870-c.1991), and the Peoli Cemetery—the final resting place of baseball legend

Cy Young Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher. Born in Gilmore, Ohio, he worked on his family's farm as a youth before starting his professional baseball career. Young entered th ...

. Young's house still stands outside of Peoli, owned by the

Amish The Amish (; pdc, Amisch; german: link=no, Amische), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptist Christian church fellowships with Swiss German and Alsatian origins. They are closely related to Mennonite churc ...

community and is currently home to their livestock.

History

Peoli was originally called Newtown, and under the latter name was laid out in 1817. A post office called Peoli was established in 1846, and remained in operation until 1956.

Geography and demographics

Peoli lies in a

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, the surrounding terrain consisting of many hills, ridges and valleys. They are many farms between Peoli and Newcomerstown to the west and

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England. It is the second-largest city in the United Kingdom with a population of 1.145 million in the city proper, 2.92 million in the West ...

to the south. They are two tin shops in the Peoli area, one on State Route 258 and one located on a county road just south of the Tuscarawas/

Guernsey Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency. It is the second largest of the Channel Islands ...

county line. Peoli has a large number of

people. In 2008 there were two districts of Swartzentruber Amish in the Peoli - Port Washington area.Charles E. Hurst, David L. McConnell: ''An Amish Paradox: Diversity and Change in the World's Largest Amish Community'', Baltimore MD 2010, page 300.

References

Unincorporated communities in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Tuscarawas County, Ohio {{TuscarawasCountyOH-geo-stub