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Encyclopedia Britannica



XENIA

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 883 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
XENIA , a city and the county-seat of
Greene
  county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., in the township of Xenia, about 3 M. E. of the Little Miami river, and about 55 M. S.W. of Columbus and about 65 m. N.E. of Cincinnati. Pop. (190o) ,8696, of whom 410 were foreign-born ; (1910 census) 8706. Xenia is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis (
Pennsylvania
  System) rail-ways, and by interurban electric lines to
Springfield
  and Dayton. It is the seat of the
Ohio
  Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans'
Home
  and of the Xenia. Theological
Seminary
  (United Presbyterian; founded in 1794 at Service, Pa., and united in 1874 with the Theological
Seminary
  of the North-West, founded in 1839 at Oxford, Ohio). About 3 M. N.E., at Wilberforce, is Wilber-force University (co=educational; opened in 1856 and reorganized in 1863), conducted by the African Methodist Episcopal Church. The public buildings of Xenia include a public library, the county court-
house
  and the municipal building. Xenia is situated in a fine farming and stock-raising region, and among its manufactures are cordage and twine, boots and shoes, carriages and machinery. The township was first settled about 1797. Xenia was laid out as a
village
  in 1803, was incorporated as a town in 18o8 and was chartered as a city in 1870.


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