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John Knisely's 1804 grid town on the Tuscarawas River, next to the Moravian mission of Schoenbrunn.
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Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in New Philadelphia.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for a customer in New Philadelphia.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for Matthew in Bolivar.
Garage door spring repair by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Dellroy.
Garage door spring replacement job by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door work by our local technician for Troy in East Sparta.
Inside view of a garage door after a Proactive Garage Door Repair visit
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Malvern.
New Philadelphia is the county seat and the largest city of Tuscarawas County, and it follows the Tuscarawas River. The 2020 census counted 17,677 residents in 7,613 households, with 8,122 housing units and a homeowner vacancy rate of 1.5%. It shares a micropolitan area with its neighbor Dover.
Brick streets near the square, postwar blocks and newer subdivisions all have garage doors that eventually wear out. When yours breaks, we answer 24/7, and the target is same-day service on most calls, often within 1 hour.
For a house near the square, a carriage-house style door in the spirit of the old street; for a ranch or split-level on the west side, a plain steel design with a window row. We carry Amarr, Wayne Dalton and Clopay, with insulated options for attached garages (our install steps), and mount Chamberlain or LiftMaster operators (choosing an opener).
A city that once made roofing tile, sewer pipe and bricks still has shops, plants and warehouses that depend on overhead doors, and the stores around the city's main retail center have service doors of their own. We handle commercial door repair and commercial operators.
In 1772 the Moravian Church, led by David Zeisberger, founded Schoenbrunn, "beautiful spring", as a mission to the Delaware Indians. It was the first settlement of the Northwest Territory, and it grew to 60 dwellings and more than 300 inhabitants, who drew up Ohio's first civil code and built its first Christian church and schoolhouse. Problems tied to the American Revolution closed it in 1777.
John Knisely, from Pennsylvania, came back to Ohio in 1804 with his family and 33 other pioneers and hired surveyor John Wells to lay out New Philadelphia in the same grid as Philadelphia. The two main streets, High Avenue and Broadway, were named after main streets of that city. Coal and clay drove the early industry, and factories here made steel, canned goods, roofing tile, sewer pipe, bricks, stovepipes, carriages and brooms. The census shows steady growth, from 1,413 people in 1850 to 10,718 in 1920 and 14,241 in 1960.
Houses have gone up here since 1804, so garages come in every age. Close to the square, detached garages sit at the back of deep lots, often with single doors and extension springs; the postwar streets have attached two-car garages, and newer homes on the edges of town have wide insulated doors. We service every one of them.
The Tuscarawas valley traps cold, wet air on winter mornings, and New Philadelphia's older garages feel it first. Steel panels shrink, grease turns stiff and a weatherstrip that was soft in October cracks by February. Torsion springs near the end of their rated cycles tend to break on exactly those mornings.
A jerky, noisy or suddenly heavy door is the warning. Keep it closed and phone us; better still, book a pre-winter door service while the weather is mild.
Tuscora Park, a municipal park first built as a Works Progress Administration project, still has its original stonework gates, paths and retaining walls. It has a carousel, Ferris wheel, miniature railroad and swimming pool. The Herschell-Spillman carousel, bought secondhand around 1940, has 36 carved wooden jumping horses, two chariots and 428 lights. Each year the First Town Days festival brings a Grand Parade and fireworks on the weekend before the Fourth of July, and on its last day the U.S. Air Force Band of Flight plays the park's amphitheater.
Kent State University at Tuscarawas opened in 1968 on 180 acres and enrolls about 2,000 students; it is the only locally owned regional campus in Ohio, and the Tuscarawas Performing Arts Center is on its grounds. Five elementary schools, a middle school and New Philadelphia High make up the city district, and the main branch of the Tuscarawas County Public Library is here. Interstate 77 passes west of the center, U.S. 250 runs along the west and south sides, and State Routes 39 and 800 cross the city. Into the early 1950s, a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train ran through New Philadelphia six days a week on its way to Akron and Cleveland.
Tuscarawas County, formed on February 15, 1808, takes its name from a Delaware word translated as "old town" or "open mouth". Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes, industrial designer Norman Bel Geddes and illustrator William Donahey, creator of The Teenie Weenies, are among the city's notable people.
Excellent, quick, and professional service! I highly recommend.
Mervat N. · September 2026
Poactive was very professional and stayed late to repair our springs so there was no problems. Highly recommend!
Robin L. · September 2026 · Spring repair
Fast and honest repair. Great service and advice. Next day service !
Derek G. · September 2026
Very friendly and knowledgeable with our door problems. Clearly able to do work professionally. Highly recommend Proactive!
John M. · September 2026
Installed new door & opener. Great service from initial service appt to installation.
Beth P. · September 2026 · Opener
We called proactive they came on time and great service and wonderful to work with the company
Narsimha K. · September 2026
Regularly. Many still run on extension springs and original doors, and we repair or replace them.
Day or night, a real human answers your call, never AI. Our technicians are nearby, so we’re often at your door within 30 to 60 minutes, and same day on most calls. We act right away, give you an arrival time on the phone, and call you when we’re on the way.
Yes. Dover and the towns around the county seat are all on our routes.
From New Philadelphia we also reach:
On High Avenue, Broadway or out by the Kent State campus, ring us and a van heads your way.
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