While good land remained for sale in the more accessible townships there was little incentive to move this far away from the Ohio River.

The township politics' in the nineteenth century were markedly pacifist due to the beliefs of resident Shakers and other denominations.

When the war and the draft ended in 1865, the remaining $1,200 was used to erect the frame building that has served as the Crosby Township Hall ever since.

The terrain rises in a series of hills from the Great Miami River in the southeast and the becomes more regular in the north and west.

New Baltimore, formed in 1819 by Samuel Pottinger, is situated on the Miami River about 4 miles (6 km) east of New Haven.

This was necessary since there was already a New Haven in Huron County, Ohio, and the name was assigned by the first postmaster, Alexander Preston Cavender.

Today the village's Shaker Cemetery is maintained by the township trustees and is open to the public; while most of the settlement's buildings remain along Oxford Road, they are all privately owned.

[2] The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1.

A major issue in the township is the ongoing activity related to the clean-up of the Fernald plant site, which was built during World War II and was used to refine uranium isotopes needed for the first atom bomb.