76 remodeled several times since. Children’s Home.—By an act of Legislature passed April 18, 1889, the Commissioners of Tuscarawas County were authorized to purchase property fora Children’s Home at a cost not to exceed $25,000. In pursuance of this act the Commissioners, May 3, 1881. entered an agreement to purchase for $25000 the Wilhelmi farm, situated in the suburbs of Dover, south-east of that village. The Home was opened in November, 1881. The rest-, dence, a handsome two story brick about fifty feet square, proving inadequate to accommodate the children received at the institution,-.' the commissioners contracted foi’ the erection of an addition to the building, 50x70 feet in size, for $7,815. As the building now stands, it is one of the most artistic, commodious and house-like institutions of the kind in the state* The management has been successfully conducted, and reflects great credit to those, in whose care have been placed the training and education of the orphans left to their charge. Dover.—Jesse Slingluff and Christian Deardorff, two of the orignial owners of Dover, first visited the county in 1802. These two
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