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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMBRIDGE , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Guernsey county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on See also:Wills See also:Creek, about 75 M. E. by N. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (1890) 4361; (1900) 8241, of whom 407 were See also:foreign-See also:born; (1910 See also:census) 11,327. It is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio and the See also:Pennsylvania See also:railways, and is connected by an electric See also:line with Byesville (pop. in 1910, 3156), about 7 M. S. Cambridge is built on a See also:hill about 80o ft. above See also:sea-level. There is a public library. See also:Coal, oil, natural See also:gas, See also:clay and See also:iron are found in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are iron, See also:steel, See also:glass, See also:furniture and pottery. The value of its factory products in 1905 was $2,440,917. The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works. Cambridge was first settled in 1798 by emigrants from the See also:island of Guernsey (whence the name of the county); was laid out as a See also:town in '8o6; was incorporated as a See also:village in 1837; and was chartered as a city in 1893.

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