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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 939 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MAYSVILLE , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Mason county, See also:

KENTUCKY

Kentucky, U.S.A., on the See also:

OHIO

Ohio See also:

RIVER

river, 6o m. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.E. of See also:

CINCINNATI

Cincinnati. Pop. (1890) 5358; (1900) 6423 (1155 negroes); (1910) 6141. It is served by the See also:

LOUISVILLE

Louisville & See also:

NASHVILLE

Nashville, and the Chesapeake & Ohio See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by steamboats on the Ohio river. Among its See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal buildings are the Mason county public library (1878), the Federal See also:

BUILDING

building and Masonic and See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

Odd See also:

FELLOWS, SIR CHARLES (1799-1860)

Fellows' temples. The city lies between the river and a range of hills; at the back of the hills is a See also:

FINE

fine farming See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, of which See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco of excellent quality is a leading product. There is a large plant of the See also:

AMERICAN

American Tobacco See also:

COMPANY

Company at Maysville, and among the city's manufactures are pulleys, ploughs, See also:

WHISKY, or WHISKEY

whisky, See also:

FLOUR

flour, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, carriages, cigars, foundry and See also:

machine-See also:

SHOP

shop products, bricks and See also:

cotton goods. The city is a distributing point for See also:

COAL

coal and other products brought to it by Ohio river boats. Formerly it was one of the principal See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp markets of the country. The See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place See also:

early became a landing point for immigrants to Kentucky, and in 1784 a See also:

double See also:

LOG (a word of uncertain etymological origin,possibly onomatopoeic; the New English Dictionary rejects the derivation from Norwegian lag, a fallen tree)

log See also:

CABIN

cabin and a See also:

BLOCKHOUSE

blockhouse were erected here. It was then called See also:

LIMESTONE

Limestone, from the See also:

creek which flows into the Ohio here, but several years later the See also:

PRESENT

present name was adopted in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of See also:

John May, who with See also:

Simon See also:

KENTON

Kenton laid out the See also:

TOWN

town in 1787, and who in 1790 was killed by the See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians. Maysville was incorporated as a town in 1787, was chartered as a city in 1833, and became the county-seat in 1848.

In 1830, when the question of " See also:

INTERNAL

internal improvements " by the See also:

NATIONAL

National See also:

government was an important See also:

POLITICAL

political issue, See also:

CONGRESS (Lat. congressus, coming together, from congredi; cum, with, and gradus, step)

Congress passed a See also:

BILL

bill directing the government to aid in building a See also:

TURNPIKE

turnpike road from Maysville to See also:

Lexington. See also:

PRESIDENT (Fr. president, from Lat. praesidens, post-Augustan Lat. for praeses, director, ruler, from praesidere, to sit in front of, preside)

President See also:

Andrew See also:

Jackson vetoed the bill on the ground that the proposed improvement was a See also:

LOCAL

local rather than a national one; but one-See also:

HALF

half the See also:

capital was then furnished privately, the other half was furnished through several See also:

state appropriations, and the road was completed in 1835 and marked the beginning of a See also:

SYSTEM

system of turnpike roads built with state aid.

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