Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Sugarcreek, OH

Sugarcreek is a village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, nicknamed "The Little Switzerland of Ohio" and often called the Gateway to Amish Country.

The neighboring village of Shanesville was founded in 1814 by Abraham Shane at the crossing of two Indian trails, now State Routes 39 and 93; Sugarcreek began as East Shanesville and surpassed it when the railroads arrived, and Shanesville was merged into Sugarcreek in 1969.

Swiss immigrants arrived in the early 1830s and built a cheese industry using milk from local Amish dairy farms, giving Sugarcreek its Swiss character.

The first Ohio Swiss Festival was held in 1953 to promote the area's cheese, and starting in 1965 local business leaders transformed the town into a Swiss-style village, launching its tourism industry by the early 1970s.

One of the world's largest cuckoo clocks stands in downtown Sugarcreek — about 23 feet tall and 24 feet wide — and it was featured on the cover of the Guinness Book of World Records in 1977.

The giant cuckoo clock was originally built for an Alpine-themed restaurant in nearby Wilmot, then purchased, restored, and installed in downtown Sugarcreek in 2012, where an animated band performs every half hour in season.

Sugarcreek is the headquarters of The Budget, a weekly newspaper serving Amish communities across the country.

The village has several large production facilities of the Belden Brick Company, and a steam passenger train operated by the Ohio Central Railroad ran between Sugarcreek and Baltic until 2004.

The Alpine Hills Museum in Sugarcreek preserves the intertwined Swiss and Amish heritage of the village.

Sugarcreek had a population of 2,373 people at the 2020 census, and it counted 904 households in the 2010 census.