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Encyclopedia Britannica



MARTINS FERRY

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 803 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MARTINS FERRY , a city of Belmont county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on the
Ohio
  River, nearly opposite Wheeling, West Virginia. Pop. (189o), 6250; (1900), 7760, including 1033 foreign-born and 252 negroes; (191o), 9133. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  (
Cleveland
  & Pittsburg Division), the
Baltimore
  & Ohio, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (Wabash
System
 ) railways, and by several steamboat lines. The city is situated on two plateaus; the lower is occupied chiefly by factories, the upper by dwellings. Coal mining and manufacturing are the
principal
 
industries
 ; among factory products are iron, steel, tin, stoves, machinery and glassware. The municipality owns and operates the water-works and an electric-lighting plant. A
settlement
  was attempted here in 1785, but was abandoned on account of trouble with the Indians. In 1795 a town was laid out by Absalom Martin and was called Jefferson, but this, too, was abandoned, on,
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account of its not being made the county-seat. The town was laid out again in 1835 by Ebenezer Martin (son of Absalom Martin) and was called Martinsville; the present name was substituted a few years later. The Martins and other pioneers are buried in
Walnut
  Grove Cemetery within the city limits. Martins Ferry was incorporated as a town in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1885.


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