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Encyclopedia Britannica



ATHENS

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 845 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ARN-AUD
ATHENS , a
village
  and the county-seat of Athens county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., in the township of Athens, on the Hocking river, about 76 m. E.S.E. of
Columbus
 . Pop. (189o) 2620; (1900) 3066; (1910) 5463; of the township (1910) 10,156. It is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  Southwestern, the Toledo & Ohio Central (Ohio Central Lines), and the Hocking Valley railways. The
village
  is built on
rolling
  ground rising about 70 ft. above the river (which nearly encircles it), and commands views of some of the most beautiful scenery in the state. There are several ancient mounds in the vicinity. Athens is the seat of Ohio University (co-educational), a state institution established in 1804, and having in 1908 a college of liberal arts, a state normal college (1902), a commercial college, a college of music and a state preparatory school. In 1908 the University had 53 instructors and 1386 students.
South
  of the village, and occupying a fine situation, is ,a state
hospital
 
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for the insane. In the vicinity there are many coal mines, and among the manufactures are bricks, furniture, veneered doors, and shirts. The municipality operates the water-works. When the Ohio Company, through Manasseh Cutler, obtained from congress their
land
  in what is now Ohio, it was arranged that the income from two townships was to be set aside " for the support of a literary institution." In 1795 the townships (Athens and Alexandei) were located and surveyed, and in 1800 Rufus
Putnam
  and two other commissioners, appointed by the Territorial legislature, laid out a town, which was also called Athens. Settlers slowly came; the town became the county-seat in 1805, was incorporated as a village in 1811, and was re-incorporated in 1828.


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