Under the direction of the Connecticut Land Company, this twenty-five-mile-square parcel, initially known as Township 4, Range 2, was surveyed in 1798.

Fellow surveyor Samuel Hutchins, who was raised by Uriel Holmes, Jr., received 100 acres for his work.

Proprietor Ephraim Root visited Vienna in 1800, when he named Titus Brockway as his agent for land sales in the Township.

The residents of Vienna Township were served by the reverends Joseph Badger, Thomas Robbins, and Nathan Bailey Derrow.

[6] Connecticut surrendered its sovereignty of the Western Reserve in 1800, and the land was absorbed into the Northwest Territory and as part of Ohio when that state entered the Union in 1803.

[8] One of the earliest buildings, constructed on the green in 1825, was used for church services and Township meetings and housed Vienna Academy, an early "English School" for boys.

The building was moved in the early twentieth century to its current site on Youngstown-Kingsville Road north of Vienna Center.

Though primarily agricultural, Vienna Township was the home to a number of clock making factories established between 1812 and the 1830s, a frontier extension of one of Connecticut's signal industries.

Vienna's clock makers, including brothers Lambert W. and Thomas Lewis, Phineas Deming, Joel J. Hummason, Jr., John C. McMaster, Ansel Merrell, and Abel Tyler, manufactured tall case and shelf wooden-work clocks, using water power supplied by the Township's streams and creeks.

Not until the late 1920s did its population noticeably rise, and the increase was due in great part to immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe who purchased farms and worked in the nearby steel and iron mills of Youngstown, Niles, and Girard in Ohio and Sharon in Pennsylvania.