What is the history of Windham, Ohio?
In 1811, a group of sixteen men and an unknown number of women and children travelled from Becket, Massachusetts to the unoccupied survey township immediately south of Nelson Township, Portage County, OhioNelson Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve. This new township, known today as Windham Township, was survey town 4 in range 6 of the Western Reserve. The group of sixteen were known as the ‘Becket Company’, after the town from which they departed for this land, although they originally came from Windham, Connecticut. The township was originally named Strongsburg, after Caleb Strong, then Governor of Massachusetts. However, given Governor Strong’s opposition to the War of 1812, which settlers in northern Ohio had strong reason to support, the name quickly fell into disfavor with the new settlers. The township was renamed Sharon, and in 1820 the township was renamed once again to Windham, after the Becket Company’s town of origin. The Village of Windham was incorporated in 1892,
