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village and the See also:county-seat of Athens county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., in the township of Athens, on the Hocking See also:river, about 76 m. E.S.E. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (189o) 2620; (1900) 3066; (1910) 5463; of the township (1910) 10,156. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern, the See also:Toledo & Ohio Central (Ohio Central Lines), and the Hocking Valley See also:railways. The village is built on See also:rolling ground rising about 70 ft. above the river (which nearly encircles it), and commands views of some of the most beautiful scenery in the See also:state. There are several See also:ancient mounds in the vicinity. Athens is the seat of Ohio University (co-educational), a state institution established in 1804, and having in 1908 a See also:college of liberal arts, a state normal college (1902), a commercial college, a college of See also:music and a state preparatory school. In 1908 the University had 53 instructors and 1386 students. See also:South of the village, and occupying a See also:fine situation, is ,a state See also:hospital for the insane. In the vicinity there are many See also:coal mines, and among the manufactures are bricks, See also:furniture, veneered doors, and shirts. The See also:municipality operates the See also:water-See also:works.

When the Ohio See also:

Company, through See also:Manasseh See also:Cutler, obtained from See also:congress their See also:land in what is now Ohio, it was arranged that the income from two townships was to be set aside " for the support of a See also:literary institution." In 1795 the townships (Athens and Alexandei) were located and surveyed, and in 1800 See also:Rufus See also:Putnam and two other commissioners, appointed by the Territorial legislature, laid out a See also:town, which was also called Athens. Settlers slowly came; the town became the county-seat in 1805, was incorporated as a village in 1811, and was re-incorporated in 1828.

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