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CAMBRIDGE

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 97 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CAMBRIDGE , a city and the county-seat of
Guernsey
  county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on Wills Creek, about 75 M. E. by N. of
Columbus
 . Pop. (1890) 4361; (1900) 8241, of whom 407 were foreign-born; (1910
census
 ) 11,327. It is served by the
Baltimore
  &
Ohio
  and the
Pennsylvania
  railways, and is connected by an electric line with Byesville (pop. in 1910, 3156), about 7 M. S. Cambridge is built on a hill about 80o ft. above sea-level. There is a public library. Coal, oil, natural gas, clay and
iron
  are found in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are
iron
 , steel, glass, furniture and pottery. The value of its factory products in 1905 was $2,440,917. The municipality owns and operates the water-works. Cambridge was first settled in 1798 by emigrants from the
island
  of
Guernsey
  (whence the name of the county); was laid out as a town in '8o6; was incorporated as a
village
  in 1837; and was chartered as a city in 1893.


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