Ill integrity enabled them to overcome every Obstacle and eventually to obtain wealth. During the first twenty-five years of their settlement their numbers had slightly dimin ished. Poverty in the earlier years of the colony had prevented the contracting of new marriage qlliahces. Cholera visited them in 183® and carried .off fifty of their number. They toiled bravely on and their property is now valued at nearly half a million. In former years they possessed 9,000 acres of land in one ^ody, but a portion of it has been sold off. Theyferected and operated one oil mill, one saw and twb flouring mills, twTo furnaces, one woolen factory. They also possessed the stock of their domain and had money in^es'- ted in stocks. They have abandoned and' torn down the oil mill and furnaces. Their village, named Zoar, situated about half a mile east of the Tuscarawas River, had not a very prepossessing appearance in earlier days. In most instances the log houses that were first built have given place to large frame and brick structures roofed with tile. Everything is for use, and little for show. Their barns are of hugh dimensions, rearing their brown sides and red-tiled roofs above
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