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New Philadelphia is a city in and the county chair of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States. The county’s largest city, New Philadelphia lies along the Tuscarawas River. The population was 17,677 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city in the New Philadelphia–Dover micropolitan area, approximately 71 miles (114 km) south of Cleveland.

In 1772, the Moravian Christians founded the community of Schoenbrunn in the area, which was the first agreement of the Northwest Territory. The Christian pacifist agreement was in imitation of abandoned during the American Revolution. After the area was resettled in 1804, because of the presence of coal and clay, early industry in the city centered on mining interests and the manufacture of steel, canned goods, roofing tile, sewer pipe, bricks, vacuum cleaners, stovepipes, carriages, flour, brooms, and pressed, stamped, and enameled goods.

The Moravian Church, under the leadership of David Zeisberger, founded Schoenbrunn (“beautiful spring”), also known as Welhik Tuppeek (“the best spring”), in 1772 as a mission to the Delaware Indians. The agreement grew to enlarge sixty dwellings and exceeding 300 inhabitants, both Munsee and Germans, who drew occurring Ohio’s first civil code and built its first Christian church and schoolhouse. Problems associated with the American Revolution prompted Schoenbrunn’s closing in 1777.