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Waterford on paper, "Uhrich's Mill" in everyday speech, and one half of the twin cities with Dennison.
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Uhrichsville is a Tuscarawas County city of 5,272 people (2020) at the center of Mill Township, on mostly flat ground next to the village of Dennison; the two are known as the twin cities and share the Claymont City School District. Its 2,172 households filled 2,441 housing units, 2.2% of owner homes were vacant, and it is a young town: half the residents are under 37.0, and 24.9% are children.
Young households run their garage doors from dawn to dark, and springs and openers wear out to match. When yours fails, phone Proactive for same-day service on most calls, often within 1 hour at your Uhrichsville house.
A new door can be as simple as a flush steel Clopay for a one-car garage out back, or a carriage-house Wayne Dalton or Amarr with an insulated core for an attached garage (the replacement process). We finish with a LiftMaster or Chamberlain operator (operator options).
The town was laid out in 1833 as Waterford, but everyone called it Uhrich's Mill after local mill operator Michael Uhrich, and in 1839 it officially became Uhrichsville. It prospered first from the Ohio and Erie Canal, which linked Lake Erie at Cleveland with the Ohio River at Portsmouth, and then from the Pan Handle Railroad, part of the Pennsylvania Railroad system, whose main line ran from Pittsburgh across the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and on west to Chicago and East St. Louis, and the railroad shops built next door at Dennison added to its growth. Explorer Christopher Gist of the Ohio Land Company had crossed the Tuscarawas Valley in 1750, and Tuscarawas County, formed on February 15, 1808, takes its name from a Delaware word translated as "old town" or "open mouth".
The census shows the effect: 576 people in 1850, 1,541 in 1870, 2,790 in 1880 and 6,428 by 1920. Uhrichsville's older streets have many houses from those railroad decades, often with detached one-car garages behind the house, while newer homes on the edges of town have attached garages. We work on both, from worn extension springs to doors that no longer seal at the bottom.
January in the twin cities means slush that refreezes every night. It packs into the track, glues rubber to concrete and makes an old extension spring work twice as hard to lift the door.
If the door refuses to move, let the motor rest and phone us instead of pressing the button again. An October service call clears the ice-catching grime, oils each pivot and resets spring tension.
Dennison, the village on the other side of the twin cities, had 2,709 residents in 2020. The eastern end of U.S. Route 36 is in Uhrichsville, and Mill Township around the city, which also holds part of Dennison and part of Midvale, counted 9,782 people in 2020; no other Ohio township is named Mill. In 2010 the city's 2,176 households averaged 2.44 people, with 34.3% raising kids and 40.9% married couples, in 2,426 housing units.
Claymont High School, the district's high school, has state titles in boys wrestling (1992) and girls basketball (1981), and mixed martial artist Cody Garbrandt is a graduate. Singer Harry McClintock, known as "Haywire Mac", baseball player Whitey Moore and painter Florence Wolf Gotthold all called Uhrichsville home.
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
Absolutely. Dennison, Midvale’s corner of Mill Township and the rest of the township are covered with Uhrichsville.
Yes. New springs, cable and rollers go on by hand, and if the garage has power an opener can be added.
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