The Tuscarawas, colloquially the Tusk, is a medium-sized river in northeastern Ohio, an important tributary of the Muskingum. The headwaters rise in [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark County], a few miles southeast of Hartville. It first flows west, through the Portage Lakes area. In Barberton, the river turns southward and the former path of the Ohio and Erie Canal runs side by side with the river for much of its length. The Tuscarawas continues through (among other places) Clinton, Canal Fulton, Massillon, Navarre, Bolivar, Zoarville, Dover, New Philadelphia, Gnadenhutten, Port Washington, Newcomerstown before joining the Walhonding River to form the Muskingum near Coshocton.
Tributaries include the Chippewa Creek, Sandy Creek, Conotton Creek, Sugar Creek, and Stillwater Creek.
In places the Tusk is connected to the Ohio and Erie Canal and feeds the canal with water, particularly in Stark County.
It is distinctively the region of the valley of the TuscarawasRiver.
Its early capital, Tuscarawas, stood near the northern confines of the county, opposite the mouth of Sandy Creek.
Though the soil of Tuscarawas County was remote from the American colonies and far from the settlements of white men, yet it witnessed more of the calamities of war than much of the land that was situated in the midst of that memorable struggle.
Tuscarawas County is located in east-central Ohio, a short distance from several major cities, with highway access to all parts of Ohio and surrounding states.
In 1770, David Zeisberger was summoned to the Tuscarawas Valley by the Delaware Indians.
The river provided Tuscarawas County citizens with resources to construct a canal, that began to be built in 1825 and was named the Ohio and Erie Canal.
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