Newcomerstown is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States, 85 miles east-northeast of Columbus. The population was 3,702 at the 2020 census. The name comes from a Lenape village established in the 1760s by Netawatwees, also known as Newcomer. Newcomer migrated to the area from Cuyahoga Falls with his band of Lenape Indians. The Lenape name of the town was Gekelukpechink, meaning "still water." The town was used as a meeting place for the Iroquois Great Council, and English and American traders called it Newcomer's town. By 1771, more than one hundred dwellings had been built. In 1776, more than seven hundred Lenape and several traders lived in the town. Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War, the Lenape moved west to Coshocton.
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