Mount Tabor is an
unincorporated community
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in
Tuscarawas County, in the
U.S. state
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of
Ohio
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.
History
The first settlement at Mount Tabor was made in 1830. A variant name was Tabor.
[ A post office called Tabor was established in 1850, and remained in operation until 1863.
]Antebellum
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United States history
* Antebellum South, the pre-American Civil War period in the Southern US
** Antebellum Georgia
** Antebellum South Carolina
** Antebellum Virginia
* Antebellum architectu ...
Tabor was described as "an Oberlin Oberlin may refer to:
; Places in the United States
* Oberlin Township, Decatur County, Kansas
** Oberlin, Kansas, a city in the township
* Oberlin, Louisiana, a town
* Oberlin, Ohio, a city
* Oberlin, Licking County, Ohio, a ghost town
* Oberlin, ...
town", where "the people were all wonderfully devoted to the cause of free Kansas."anti-slavery
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.
References
Unincorporated communities in Tuscarawas County, Ohio
Unincorporated communities in Ohio
African-American history of Ohio
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