Historical Collections of Ohio- An Encyclopedia of the State; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining (14586396189)

Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846. Main Street, Logan.
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Martin Bros., Photo., January, 1891. Main Street, Logan. 211 HOCKING COUNTY. Population of Hocking in 1820,2,080; 1830, 4,008; 1840, 9,735; 1860,17,057; 1880, 21,126, of whom 18,450 were born in Ohio, 631 in Pennsyl-vania, 430 Virginia, 114 Kentucky, 96 New York, 59 Indiana, 423 GermanEmpire, 198 Ireland, 129 England and Wales, 37 Scotland, 18 France and13 British America. Census of 1890, 22,658. The name of this county is a contraction of that of the river Hockhoeking,which flows through it. Hoek-hock-ing, in the language of the Delaware Indians,signifies a bottle: the Shawnees have it, \Vea-t!m-kac/h-qua sepe, i. e., bottle river.John White, in the American Pioneer, says : About six or seven miles northwestof Lancaster there is a fall in the Hockhoeking, of about twenty feet: above thefall, for a short distance, the creek is very narrow and straight, forming a neck,while at the falls it suddenly widens on each side and swells into the appearanceof the body of a bottle. The whole, wh

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