Madison County History and Genealogy

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Canaan Township


From History of Madison County, Ohio, Chester E. Bryan, Supervising Editor, B.F. Bowen & Co., Indianapolis (1915)

Canaan Township is located in the northwestern corner of Madison county and is bounded on the north by Darby township, on the east by Franklin county, on the south by Jefferson Township, and on the west by Monroe township. Canaan was not one of the original townships, and the following, taken from the commissioners' records, shows it to have been organized in 1819:

"June 7, 1819.—At a meeting of the commissioners, present, Burton Blizzard, Ira Finch and Patrick McLene, on petition being presented, ordered that the following_bounds compose a new township, to be known and designated by the name of Phelps:

"Beginning at the northeast corner of Madison county, running south on the line between Franklin and Madison counties five miles for a corner of Darby township; and thence continue south five miles further and corner for said new township; thence west to the east line of the townships west, and corner; thence north five miles and corner for Darby and the new township; thence east between Darby and said new township to the place of beginning."

A short time afterward the name of Phelps was changed to Canaan. Since the above erection of the township, the formation of Pike township and Union county have taken place and changes in the boundary of Darby and of the line between Madison and Franklin counties have brought Canaan township to its present boundaries.


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