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MARTINS FERRY

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 803 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FERRY , a See also:city of See also:Belmont See also:county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:River, nearly opposite See also:Wheeling, See also:West See also:Virginia. Pop. (189o), 6250; (1900), 7760, including 1033 See also:foreign-See also:born and 252 negroes; (191o), 9133. It is served by the See also:Pennsylvania (See also:Cleveland & See also:Pittsburg See also:Division), the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, and the Wheeling & See also:Lake See also:Erie (See also:Wabash See also:System) See also:railways, and by several steamboat lines. The city is situated on two plateaus; the See also:lower is occupied chiefly by factories, the upper by dwellings. See also:Coal See also:mining and manufacturing are the See also:principal See also:industries; among factory products are See also:iron, See also:steel, See also:tin, stoves, machinery and glassware. The See also:municipality owns and operates the See also:water-See also:works and an electric-See also:lighting plant. A See also:settlement was attempted here in 1785, but was abandoned on See also:account of trouble with the See also:Indians. In 1795 a See also:town was laid out by See also:Absalom See also:Martin and was called See also:Jefferson, but this, too, was abandoned, on, yeP°inu '* See also:MARTINIQUE p.~oPot See also:English Mites • o t a 4 6 8 to ~nP °t M O„nM so` Boundary of ~••ondiapematta---~ "' ~• C. Salomon Grande Aare d'Arlet Bourg. Pt. ,Pdxe Arse d'Arld Pone Arse du See also:Oran..

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Diamond See also:Basil 3 ~ •''s'eP°` OwJerour account of its not being made the county-seat. The town was laid out again in 1835 by Ebenezer Martin (son of Absalom Martin) and was called Martinsville; the See also:present name was substituted a few years later. The Martins and other pioneers are buried in See also:Walnut See also:Grove See also:Cemetery within the city limits. Martins Ferry was incorporated as a town in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1885.

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