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National Register of Historic Places
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The National Register of Historic Places is the United States federal governments official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act in 1966 established the National Register, of the more than one million properties on the National Register,80,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts, each year approximately 30,000 properties are added to the National Register as part of districts or by individual listings. For most of its history the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service and its goals are to help property owners and interest groups, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation, coordinate, identify, and protect historic sites in the United States. While National Register listings are mostly symbolic, their recognition of significance provides some financial incentive to owners of listed properties, protection of the property is not guaranteed. During the nomination process, the property is evaluated in terms of the four criteria for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places, the application of those criteria has been the subject of criticism by academics of history and preservation, as well as the public and politicians. Occasionally, historic sites outside the proper, but associated with the United States are also listed. Properties can be nominated in a variety of forms, including individual properties, historic districts, the Register categorizes general listings into one of five types of properties, district, site, structure, building, or object. National Register Historic Districts are defined geographical areas consisting of contributing and non-contributing properties, some properties are added automatically to the National Register when they become administered by the National Park Service. These include National Historic Landmarks, National Historic Sites, National Historical Parks, National Military Parks/Battlefields, National Memorials, on October 15,1966, the Historic Preservation Act created the National Register of Historic Places and the corresponding State Historic Preservation Offices. Initially, the National Register consisted of the National Historic Landmarks designated before the Registers creation, approval of the act, which was amended in 1980 and 1992, represented the first time the United States had a broad-based historic preservation policy. To administer the newly created National Register of Historic Places, the National Park Service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, hartzog, Jr. established an administrative division named the Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation. Hartzog charged OAHP with creating the National Register program mandated by the 1966 law, ernest Connally was the Offices first director. Within OAHP new divisions were created to deal with the National Register, the first official Keeper of the Register was William J. Murtagh, an architectural historian. During the Registers earliest years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, organization was lax and SHPOs were small, understaffed, and underfunded. A few years later in 1979, the NPS history programs affiliated with both the U. S. National Parks system and the National Register were categorized formally into two Assistant Directorates. Established were the Assistant Directorate for Archeology and Historic Preservation and the Assistant Directorate for Park Historic Preservation, from 1978 until 1981, the main agency for the National Register was the Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service of the United States Department of the Interior. In February 1983, the two assistant directorates were merged to promote efficiency and recognize the interdependency of their programs, jerry L. Rogers was selected to direct this newly merged associate directorate
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Historic districts in the United States
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Buildings, structures, objects and sites within a historic district are normally divided into two categories, contributing and non-contributing. Districts greatly vary in size, some have hundreds of structures, the U. S. federal government designates historic districts through the United States Department of Interior under the auspices of the National Park Service. Federally designated historic districts are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, state-level historic districts may follow similar criteria or may require adherence to certain historic rehabilitation standards. Local historic district designation offers, by far, the most legal protection for historic properties because most land use decisions are made at the local level, local districts are generally administered by the county or municipal government. The first U. S. historic district was established in Charleston, South Carolina in 1931, Charleston city government designated an Old and Historic District by local ordinance and created a board of architectural review to oversee it. New Orleans followed in 1937, establishing the Vieux Carré Commission, other localities picked up on the concept, with the city of Philadelphia enacting its historic preservation ordinance in 1955. The Supreme Court case validated the protection of resources as an entirely permissible governmental goal. In 1966 the federal government created the National Register of Historic Places, conference of Mayors had stated Americans suffered from rootlessness. By the 1980s there were thousands of federally designated historic districts, Historic districts are generally two types of properties, contributing and non-contributing. In general, contributing properties are integral parts of the historic context, in addition to the two types of classification within historic districts, properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places are classified into five broad categories. They are, building, structure, site, district and object, all but the eponymous district category are also applied to historic districts listed on the National Register. A listing on the National Register of Historic Places is governmental acknowledgment of a historic district, however, the Register is an honorary status with some federal financial incentives. The National Register of Historic Places defines a historic district per U. S. federal law, a district may also comprise individual elements separated geographically but linked by association or history. Districts established under U. S. federal guidelines generally begin the process of designation through a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, the National Register is the official recognition by the U. S. government of cultural resources worthy of preservation. While designation through the National Register does offer a district or property some protections, if the federal government is not involved, then the listing on the National Register provides the site, property or district no protections. If, however, company A was under federal contract the Smith House would be protected, a federal designation is little more than recognition by the government that the resource is worthy of preservation. Usually, the National Register does not list religious structures, moved structures, reconstructed structures, however, if a property falls into one of those categories and are integral parts of districts that do meet the criteria then an exception allowing their listing will be made. Historic district listings, like all National Register nominations, can be rejected on the basis of owner disapproval, in the case of historic districts, a majority of owners must object in order to nullify a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places
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Athens, Ohio
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Athens is a city in and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio, United States. It is located along the Hocking River in the part of Ohio. A historic college town, Athens is home to Ohio University and is the city of the Athens. The official population of Athens in the 2010 U. S. Census was 23,832, Athens is a qualified Tree City USA as recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation. By the middle of the century, the Shawnee, an Algonquian tribe, were the primary tribe of Native Americans living in what would become Athens County. According to a 1794 map by Thomas Kitchin, no settlement existed in the Athens area during the immediately prior to the founding of the city. The first permanent European settlers arrived in Athens in 1797, more than a decade after the United States victory in the American Revolutionary War, in 1800, the town site was first surveyed and plotted, but it was not incorporated as a village until 1811. In the meantime, Ohio had become a state in 1803, Ohio University was chartered in 1804, the first public institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory. Previously part of Washington County, Ohio, Athens County was formed in 1805, named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Ohio University in Athens was established with the first federal endowment of an educational institution in the United States. In July 1787, the Congress of the Confederation gave to the Ohio Company of Associates two townships of land for the support of a literary institution in the newly created Northwest Territory. The act was approved by Arthur St. Clair, Governor of the Northwest Territory on January 9,1802, however, no university with the name of American Western University would be established. Ohio became a state in 1803 and on February 18,1804, Athens received city status in 1912, following the 1910 census showing the population had passed 5,000 residents, the requirement for city status in Ohio. These lands were given to Ohio University by the Federal government and this was the first federal land grant for a university, pre-dating the Morrill Act by more than 70 years. At first, lands were leased out, but the failure of many lessors to pay their rents resulted in most of the land being sold. The sale of these lands funded the growth of Ohio University, today it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Ohio, with an enrollment of over 19,000 on the Athens campus and over 28,000 for all campuses. The earliest industry in the area was salt production, followed by iron production, today, the largest employer in the county is Ohio University. In 1843, the Hocking Canal opened, enabling shipping from the Ohio River up the Hocking River, which passes through Athens, to Nelsonville, Ohio, however, the canal was closed during cold winters when it froze over. The first railroad reached Athens in 1857, in the late 19th century, an interurban line opened between Athens and Nelsonville and operated for some years
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Ohio University
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Ohio University is a large, primarily residential, public research university in Athens, Ohio, United States. One of Americas oldest universities, the second oldest in Ohio, it was chartered in 1787 and approved in 1804, as of 2014, the Athens campus had 23,300 students, the other five campuses had approximately 10,000, and eLearning 5,900. The Heritage College of Medicine maintains its separate select admissions criteria, Ohio University offers more than 250 areas of undergraduate study. On the graduate level, the university grants masters degrees in many of its academic divisions. Ohio University is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies Ohio as a Research University under the Basic Classification category. Ohios athletic teams are called the Bobcats and compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I level as members of the Mid-American Conference. Ohio football has participated in ten games through the 2016 season. George Washington stated the settlement of southeastern Ohio was not accidental, but the result of the deliberation of wise, prudent. The Confederation Congress, which operated under the Articles of Confederation, executive roles transacted from committees of Congress or appointed persons. The Ordinance of 1787 made Ohio University the first ever to be chartered through acts of Congress and this epithet is engraved on the universitys main college gateway. The university was appropriated and envisioned by Manasseh Cutler, credited as the founder along with Rufus Putnam. Cutler had served as a chaplain in Washingtons Continental Army, the institutions first name was American University. President Thomas Jeffersons policy initiatives included an expansion of the new nation. In 1802 approval was granted by the government for the establishment of the American Western University. Ohio University was recognized by the new state on February 18,1804 and this approval came eleven months after Ohio was admitted to the Union. The first three students enrolled in 1809, the university graduated two students with bachelors degrees in 1815. The university was not gifted by the stalwart Republicans with lands and monies for the agricultural, the 20th century brought unprecedented growth in student enrollment, academic offerings, and research facilities. Between 1955 and 1970, the university realized a tripling of enrollment in the post-World War II expansion of college education
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Manasseh Cutler (representative)
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Manasseh Cutler was an American clergyman involved in the American Revolutionary War. Cutler was also a member of the United States House of Representatives, Cutler is “rightly entitled to be called ‘The Father of Ohio University. ’” Cutler was born in Killingly, Connecticut. In 1765, he graduated from Yale College and after being a teacher in Dedham, Massachusetts. From 1771 until his death, he was pastor of the Congregational church in what was the parish of Ipswich, Massachusetts until 1793, now Hamilton. For a few months in 1776, he was chaplain to the 11th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Francis, in 1778, he became chaplain to General Jonathan Titcombs brigade and took part in General John Sullivans expedition to Rhode Island. Soon after his return from this expedition he trained in medicine to supplement the scanty income of a minister, in 1782, he established a private boarding school, directing it for nearly a quarter of a century. In 1786, Cutler became interested in the settlement of lands by American pioneers to the Northwest Territory. Cutler also took a part in drafting the famous Ordinance of 1787 for the government of the Northwest Territory. In order to smooth passage of the Northwest Ordinance, Cutler bribed key congressmen by making them partners in his land company. By changing the office of governor from an elected to an appointed position, Cutler was able to offer the position to the president of Congress. From 1801 to 1805, Cutler was a Federalist representative in Congress, Cutler was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1781. He is considered a founder of Ohio University and the National Historic Landmark Cutler Hall on that campus is named in his honor and he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Yale University in 1789. Manasseh was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1813, Cutler died in 1823 at Hamilton, Massachusetts. Ephraim Cutler William P. Cutler This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Manasseh Cutler at Ohio History Central Cutler, W. P. Life Journals and Correspondence of Rev. Manasseh Cutler 2 vols, potts, Louis W. Manasseh Cutler, Lobbyist
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National Park Service
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It was created on August 25,1916, by Congress through the National Park Service Organic Act and is an agency of the United States Department of the Interior. As of 2014, the NPS employs 21,651 employees who oversee 417 units, the National Park Service celebrated its centennial in 2016. National parks and national monuments in the United States were originally individually managed under the auspices of the Department of the Interior, the movement for an independent agency to oversee these federal lands was spearheaded by business magnate and conservationist Stephen Mather, as well as J. Horace McFarland. With the help of journalist Robert Sterling Yard, Mather ran a publicity campaign for the Department of the Interior and they wrote numerous articles that praised the scenic and historic qualities of the parks and their possibilities for educational, inspirational, and recreational benefits. This campaign resulted in the creation of a National Park Service, Mather became the first director of the newly formed NPS. On March 3,1933, President Herbert Hoover signed the Reorganization Act of 1933, the act would allow the President to reorganize the executive branch of the United States government. It wasnt until later that summer when the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Roosevelt agreed and issued two Executive orders to make it happen. In 1951, Conrad Wirth became director of the National Park Service, the demand for parks after the end of the World War II had left the parks overburdened with demands that could not be met. In 1952, with the support of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, he began Mission 66, New parks were added to preserve unique resources and existing park facilities were upgraded and expanded. In 1966, as the Park Service turned 50 years old, emphasis began to turn from just saving great and wonderful scenery, Director George Hartzog began the process with the creation of the National Lakeshores and then National Recreation Areas. Since its inception in 1916, the National Park Service has managed each of the United States national parks, Yellowstone National Park was the first national park in the United States. In 1872, there was no government to manage it. Yosemite National Park began as a park, the land for the park was donated by the federal government to the state of California in 1864 for perpetual conservation. Yosemite was later returned to federal ownership, at first, each national park was managed independently, with varying degrees of success. In Yellowstone, the staff was replaced by the U. S. Army in 1886. Due to the irregularities in managing these national treasures, Stephen Mather petitioned the government to improve the situation. In response, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane challenged him to lobby for creating a new agency, Mather was successful with the ratification of the National Park Service Organic Act in 1916. Later, the agency was given authority over other protected areas, the National Park System includes all properties managed by the National Park Service
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History of Ohio University
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The universitys history predates its founding, as a part of the post-Revolutionary period that saw the nations first land grants, and continues until the present period of international research. Public support for education in America was not new when Manasseh Cutler first decided to organize an expedition bound for the Ohio country. Ohio University would become the first legislated public university due to passage of the Northwest Ordinance, on March 1,1786, Cutler had attended a meeting at the Bunch of Grapes Tavern in Boston with Massachusetts delegates to form an association to purchase lands from Congress. The result of the Ohio University is directly from “the organic law of the territory, ” and Cutler’s contract for the purchase of the land, by the spring of 1788, Rufus Putnam had gathered fifty laborers, surveyors, and boat builders and proceeded to the Muskingum River. Putnam surveyed and laid out a town to provide a home for the future university. On 9 January 1802, the Ohio Territory’s version of the charter further incorporated the university, by the name “American Western University. ”The next charter was on 18 February 1804, establishing “Ohio University, ” this time by the new legislature of the State of Ohio. As the flagship for the nation, Midwest, and state, the university’s current state flagship right has been defended several times. General Washington stated “the settlement of southeastern Ohio was not accidental, but the result of the deliberation of wise, prudent. On December 6,1804, the first trustees, including Putnam, the first students of the university were from the new territory and out-of-territory, the sons of settlers and well-to-do merchants from Americas east coast. In the spring of 1806, the trustees began to train pupils for the colleges work and that year, a two-story building was completed by Jehiel Gregory on the College Green. Women were involved at what would become the nations first university in the Northwest Territory since the opening in 1808. Beginning with the first faculty, women accompanied men, acted as helpers, the lands and space that the university would become home to remained heavily visited by American Indians of various clans on through the mid-1800s, after the university was well-established. Whether or not these locals participated in university functions is a bit mysterious, John Newton Templeton became the first African American to graduate from the university in 1828. The first publication, The Echo and University Record, began and was discontinued in 1843, the Civil War began during the universitys first time as a growing institution and classical American university. Many people from Athens were active in the war activities on behalf of the Union, the university served as station of interest for activity between Ohio and what would become West Virginia. The Morrill Land Grant College Acts passage saw Ohio and Miami universities attempt to persuade the state to divide designated 630,000 acres of land, ultimately, Ohio was neglected by the stalwart Republicans who did not gift monies from the act to it. Women entered the university for the first time as students in 1868, the admission of women was not because of a law or court order, but instead the recognition by faculty that women could contribute academically and could be learned students like male counterparts. Margaret Boyd graduated from Ohio University in 1873, having enrolled in the preparatory program in the spring of 1868
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Ohio Bobcats
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Ohio University intercollegiate athletics include six mens squads and nine womens squads and range from individual athletics to team sports, all called the Bobcats. The Bobcats are 1946 charter members of the Mid-American Conference, one of 11 leagues to be NCAA Division FBS, the school colors are Ohio Green and White. A member of the East Division of the Mid-American Conference, Ohio University sponsors teams in six mens, for the 2004 bicentennial biography of the university, the institution commissioned a book documenting the universitys history. Betty Hollows bicentennial publication Ohio University, The Spirit of a Singular Place describes many historical events in the athletic program. In her book, Hollow records that Frank Super, the son of university president Charles W. Super, local businesses and sympathizers, or fans, sported light-blue decorations and ribbons to show their support. Not only two later, in 1896, did Ohio teams adopt green and white as school colors. Hal Rowland, a student, won the $10.00 contest to put forward the idea of a nickname that exemplified the teams tenacity and fighting spirit best. Womens sports had advanced over many years at Ohio University, starting originally as the club and participation in the field day. The football team was invited to meet U. S. President Herbert Hoover at the White House in 1932, despite wide acclaim, footballs legacy at the university is presently out-shined by Bobcat baseball. Number 54 is the number ever retired at Ohio University. It belonged to Frank Baumholtz, a star and one of the few athletes ever to play two professional sports. Larry Hunter is one on a distinguished list of coaches that also includes Jim Snyder, whose twenty-five seasons produced 355 wins, conference crowns, Baumholtz signed with the Cincinnati Reds in 1941. Bob Wren, a Bobcat infielder, was named coach in 1949 and in his twenty-three seasons his teams won almost 500 games, future major leaguers like Philliess Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt fueled Wrens powerhouse ballclubs. In fact, the 1970 team with Schmidt and future coach Joe Carbone as players advanced all the way to the College World Series, instrumental within the university administrators building equal opportunities for women through increased spending and scholarship support was Peggy Pruitt, who retired in 2001. Building upon a tradition that has produced such stand-outs as Anita Corl Miller-Huntsman, Shelly Morriss field hockey team earned a MAC championship, Wendy Weeden Devine,1974, became the first woman inducted into the Ohio University Athletic Hall of Fame. An Ohio All-American and 1964 NCAA cross-country champion, Elmore Mo Banton led the cross-country and track and field teams as a coach to many MAC championships and NCAA highlights. Retiring in 1972, baseballs Coach Wren gave way to Jerry France, France won almost 400 games, and his successor Joe Carbone added another 400 victories to the tradition. Sporting News ranked Ohio University thirty-second in the nation for overall achievement in 2001, ahead of such powerhouses as Florida State, Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia Tech, Ohios marching band is The Ohio University Marching 110
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National Historic Landmark
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A National Historic Landmark is a building, district, object, site, or structure that is officially recognized by the United States government for its outstanding historical significance. Of over 85,000 places listed on the countrys National Register of Historic Places, a National Historic Landmark District may include contributing properties that are buildings, structures, sites or objects, and it may include non-contributing properties. Contributing properties may or may not also be separately listed, prior to 1935, efforts to preserve cultural heritage of national importance were made by piecemeal efforts of the United States Congress. The first National Historic Site designation was made for the Salem Maritime National Historic Site on March 17,1938. In 1960, the National Park Service took on the administration of the data gathered under this legislation. Because listings often triggered local preservation laws, legislation in 1980 amended the procedures to require owner agreement to the designations. On October 9,1960,92 properties were announced as designated NHLs by Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton, more than 2,500 NHLs have been designated. Most, but not all, are in the United States, there are NHLs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Three states account for nearly 25 percent of the nations NHLs, three cities within these states all separately have more NHLs than 40 of the 50 states. In fact, New York City alone has more NHLs than all but five states, Virginia, California, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, there are 74 NHLs in the District of Columbia. Some NHLs are in U. S. commonwealths and territories, associated states, and foreign states. There are 15 in Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other U. S. commonwealths and territories,5 in U. S. -associated states such as Micronesia, over 100 ships or shipwrecks have been designated as NHLs. About half of the National Historic Landmarks are privately owned, the National Historic Landmarks Program relies on suggestions for new designations from the National Park Service, which also assists in maintaining the landmarks. A friends group of owners and managers, the National Historic Landmark Stewards Association, works to preserve, protect, if not already listed on the National Register of Historic Places, an NHL is automatically added to the Register upon designation. About three percent of Register listings are NHLs, american Water Landmark List of U. S
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Lancaster, Ohio
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Lancaster is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 38,780 and it is located near the Hocking River, approximately 33 miles southeast of Columbus and is the county seat of Fairfield County. The current mayor of Lancaster is Republican Brian S. Kuhn, many mounds and burial sites have also yielded archaeological artifacts. It served as a crossroads for the intertribal and intra-tribal wars fought at various times. Noted frontier explorer Christopher Gist reached the vicinity of Lancaster on January 19,1751, leaving the area the next day, Gist rode southwest to Maguck, another Delaware town near Circleville. White settlers began to encroach on Native American lands in the Ohio Territory, with pioneer settlement within Ohio made legal and safe from Indian raids, developers began to speculate in land sales in earnest. As part of the deal, Zane was awarded square-mile tracts of land at the points where his trace crossed the Hocking, Muskingum, Lancaster predated the formal establishment of the state of Ohio by three years. The initial settlers were predominantly of German stock, and emigrated from Pennsylvania, ohios longest continuously operating newspaper, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette was born of a merger of the early Der Ohio Adler, founded about 1807, with the Ohio Gazette, founded in the 1830s. This was shortly after the Gazette was acquired by glassmaker Anchor-Hocking, the newspaper is currently part of the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, which is in turn a unit of Gannett Company, Inc. Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by city ordinance, the connection of the Hocking Canal to the Ohio and Erie Canal in this era provided a convenient way for the regions rich agricultural produce to reach eastern markets. Modern Lancaster is distinguished by a blend of 19th-century architecture. Lancaster is home to the Lancaster campus of Ohio University, offering a variety of two- and four-year baccalaureate degrees and this continually expanding branch offers many courses in a variety of settings, including multi-site classes via the Ohio University Learning Network and online classes. Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Festival, an 11-day arts, Lancaster is home to both the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio and the Ohio Glass Museum, both located within the downtown area. Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper, Lancaster is home to the Fairfield County Fair, a week-long fair and the last county fair in Ohio each year, always on the second week of October. It features a variety of attractions including truck, tractor, and horse pulls, demolition derbies, concerts, bands, the Fairfield County Fair also includes lots of food, exhibits, games, and rides for people of all ages. It is located in Rising Park, a city park on the citys north side. It is possible to climb to the top of Mount Pleasant by following a marked trail from the park through the woods that cover the bluffs other sides. There is also a cave known unofficially as Devils Kitchen in the front in which people are willing to climb about 20 feet using only shallow bear claws
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Pickerington, Ohio
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Pickerington is a city in Fairfield and Franklin counties in the central region of the U. S. state of Ohio. It was founded in 1815 as Jacksonville, Pickerington was known as Jacksonville until 1827, when the citizens petitioned the state legislature to change the name to Pickerington in honor of its founder, Abraham Pickering. It is a suburb of Columbus, the population was 18,291 at the 2010 census. As land annexation, development, and immigration into the Columbus area continues, Pickerington is also home to the Motorcycle Hall of Fame, located at 13515 Yarmouth Dr. off Interstate 70. The Ohio Secretary of State certified Pickerington as a city in 1991 and was designated as the Violet Capital of Ohio in 1996 by the Ohio Legislature, at 11.1 sq mi, Pickerington is the second largest city in Fairfield County behind Lancaster. The City of Pickerington is located just east of Columbus, the city features a historic downtown shopping area, while Violet Township is home to rolling hills, log houses, forests, and fields. Pickerington uses the version of the mayor-council government, which constitutes an elected executive mayor position, an elected city council. The current mayor, Lee A. Gray was elected Mayor in November 2011, Mayor Gray previously served as Mayor from 1992 to 1999 and as a City Council member in 1987. The Pickerington city council is a body that is elected by rolling. There are four standing committees in the council, the committee, the rules committee, the safety committee. Current council members elected or re-elected year and position, Mike Sabatino. There are several positions appointed between the mayor and city council to aid in the management of the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 9.74 square miles. As of the census of 2010, there were 18,291 people,6,226 households, the population density was 1,877.9 inhabitants per square mile. There were 6,680 housing units at a density of 685.8 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 80. 1% White,13. 0% African American,0. 2% Native American,2. 9% Asian,0. 7% from other races, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 5% of the population. 17. 5% of all households were made up of individuals, the average household size was 2.92 and the average family size was 3.33. The median age in the city was 32.9 years
