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Description: Reverse reads: "New Entrance Road to Schoenbrunn State Memorial From Route #250." The Shoenbrunn State Memorial park was completed as an NYA project during the 1930s and 1940s. The National Youth Administration (NYA) was created as one of the New Deal agencies, and created job opportunities for youth that were not in school. In 1772, David Zeisberger, a missionary of the Moravian Church, established the village of Schoenbrunn on the Tuscarawas River, near present-day New Philadelphia. The word Schoenbrunn means "beautiful spring" in German. The purpose of this community was to provide Moravian missionaries a place to teach Christianity to Native Americans residing in Ohio. At its greatest size, Schoenbrunn had a population of four hundred Christian natives, mostly Delaware Indians, and more than sixty buildings, including the first school and Christian church built in Ohio. During the American Revolution, facing harassment from both the English and the Americans , Zeisberger and h View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F02_003_001
Subjects: United States. National Youth Administration--Exhibitions & displays--1930-1950.; United States. National Youth Administration in Ohio
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)