Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 539
Land area (2000): 0.998643 sq. miles (2.586474 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000137 sq. miles (0.000355 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.998780 sq. miles (2.586829 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30702
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 40.360815 N, 81.431679 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44629
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Gnadenhutten
Wikipedia
Gnadenhütten , the name of settlements founded by the German Moravian Church. The word was transliterated as Canatanheat by the missionary John Brainerd in his account.
The proper German spelling without the umlaut ü is Gnadenhuetten. American usage settled for Gnadenhutten, even though 19th century sources had used the umlaut.
Two settlements in the North American colonies were named Gnadenhutten. Each suffered massacres, called the Gnadenhütten massacre:
- Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania, in 1755 during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the US)
- Gnadenhütten, Ohio, in 1782 during the American Revolutionary War
Usage examples of "gnadenhutten".
They'd learnt war by warring, the generations driven from the eastern shore across a continent, from the ashes at Gnadenhutten onto the prairies and across the outlet to the bloodlands of the west.
Not far from the Moravian town of Bethlehem, Indians fell on the village of Gnadenhutten and massacred the inhabitants.