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BUCYRUS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 734 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCYRUS , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Crawford county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the See also:Sandusky See also:river, 62 m. N. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (189o) J974; (1900) 656o (756 See also:foreign-See also:born); (191o) 8122. It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania, the See also:Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio (Pennsylvania See also:system), and the Ohio Central See also:railways, and by interurban electric lines. The Ohio Central, of which Bucyrus is a See also:division terminal, has shops here. The city lies at an See also:elevation of about l000 ft. above See also:sea-level, and is surrounded by a See also:country well adapted to See also:agriculture and stock-raising. Among its manufactures are machinery, structural See also:steel, ventilating and See also:heating apparatus, See also:furniture, interior woodwork, ploughs, wagons, carriages, See also:copper products and See also:clay-working See also:machines. Bucyrus was first settled in 1817; it was laid out as a See also:town in 1822, was incorporated as a See also:village in 1830, and became a city in 1885. The county-seat was permanently established here in 183o.

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