Location History

Brief Overview

Landoll’s Mohican Castle is a boutique hotel that opened in 2002 and sits upon 30 acres of mostly forested land. Located Northeast of Columbus in Loudonville, Ohio, close to Mohican State Park, it truly is like something right out of a fairytale. The hotel itself is actually spread across the property and includes the Castle, 14 Stable suites which opened in 2018, several cottages, as well the Copper Mug bar and grill, a wedding pavilion, a pool house, and a cemetery…?

Early History

Mohican State Park, and in turn the land Landoll’s likely occupies, was once hunting grounds for the Mingo group within the Delaware Native American tribe. Several Delaware villages were located in the Mohican State Park Vicinity and seemed to have no connection with early settlers. These villages remained in what would eventually become Ashland County, OH until the War of 1812, during which many Native tribes sided with the British ( can’t imagine why *eyeroll*). It was a combination of this and the Copus massacre that resulted in the government forcibly removing Native Tribes from their homes and forcing them west, first to Kansas, then to Oklahoma. Typical colonizer bullshit.

After the Revolutionary war, land plots in Ohio were being “gifted” to soldiers who excelled in some brave way while fighting for the United States, specifically immigrant soldiers from Europe. A similar immigrant homesteading program was initiated in the 1850s, which allowed immigrants to purchase large plots of empty land for low prices in hopes they would be developed. These were in places that those who currently lived there had been avoiding. Enter Jacob Heyd and family, who led a group of FrancoGermanic Lutheran homesteading immigrants from Alsace- Lorraine to the land that is now occupied by Landoll’s Mohican Castle resort.

Jacob Henry Heyd

Born in Alsace, France in 1793, Jacob Henry Heyd was the oldest son of John George Heyd. As a boy, he was taught the family trade of wagon making. The business was rather successful, and their biggest client was the French army. He worked with his father until he entered the French army under Napoleon at the age of 20. He served with distinction until Napoleon’s downfall, returning to his former occupation of wagon making at the end of his enlistment. He married Mary Elisabeth Merkling in 1821 and had 8 children. He decided he wanted to move on from Alsace, he asked his wife where she would like to move the family.

“Anywhere but America,” she told him.

They immigrated to America in 1828, first landing in New York before slowly making his way to Buffalo, Cleveland, and Wooster. He ultimately settled on a farm five miles south of Loudonville, OH, where he purchased dozens of acres for pennies a piece.

Heyd first built a log cabin for his family on the land where Landoll’s Mohican Castle now stands. After he and his fellow settlers built themselves homes, the next course of business for these devout Lutherans was to build a place of worship. In 1836, they built a Lutheran church on the land, the first in Ashland County, and according to some sources, the entire state of Ohio. Jacob built a sawmill and resumed the family wagon building business, this time for pioneers heading west. He hired his fellow settlers to work in his sawmill and also on the land, to develop it into usable farmland.

All was well for several years, with the sawmill successfully maintaining business as the farm land was steadily developing. As is the way of things, though, a rift slowly began to form between the workers and Heyd. The ultimate crux of the issue was the Lutheran church.

From my perspective, Heyd and the elders wished to assimilate to the American ways as quickly as they could as immigrants to America. They likely believed it to be good for business., and judging by how immigrants are treated in America today, I can only assume a language barrier in the 1800s made it nearly impossible to successfully run a business. Heyd was quick to learn English, likely due to many business transactions, while the workers who had immigrated to America after Heyd and mainly kept their company limited to fellow German speaking immigrants did not, at least not fluently. As a result, the Lutheran church would hold two seperate masses: one in German on Saturdays for the workers, and one on Sundays in English for Heyd and the other elders who also spoke English.

Heyd was led to believe that the German speaking immihgrants ought to learn English. He had also heard rumors that the Saturday services were not in keeping with the proper Lutheran faith. He decided that there should only be one service each week. Debate as to the language the service was to be held in was had, with Heyd ultimately choosing to only hold mass in English. Those who disagreed with the decision were either kicked out of the congregation or chose to leave. They even went as far as digging up their (unenbalmed) dead and moving them several miles down the road to a different cemetary, which is actuall

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