Former United Methodist Church next to graveyard with tombstone of Cy Young Peoli is an

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in Washington Township, Tuscarawas County,

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. It is located along State Route 258.

Location and history

Situated between

Newcomerstown Newcomerstown () is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, east-northeast of Columbus. The population was 3,702 at the 2020 census. History The name comes from a Lenape (Delaware) village established in the 1760s by Netawatwees ...

and

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, Peoli is made up of approximately ten houses and includes the Peoli Church (1870 – ), 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 t ...

. Young's house still stands outside of Peoli; it is owned by the

Amish The Amish (, also or ; ; ), formally the Old Order Amish, are a group of traditionalist Anabaptism, Anabaptist Christianity, Christian Christian denomination, church fellowships with Swiss people, Swiss and Alsace, Alsatian origins. As they ...

community and is currently home to their livestock. 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, the year after Young's death.

Geography and demographics

Peoli lies in a

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

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to the south. There 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–

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county line. Peoli has a large number of

people. In 2008 there were two districts of

Swartzentruber Amish The Swartzentruber Amish are one of the largest and most conservative subgroups of Amish, Old Order Amish. The Swartzentruber Amish are considered a subgroups of Amish, subgroup of the Old Order Amish, although they do not fellowship or intermarry ...

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