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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NELSONVILLE , a See also:

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

city of See also:

Athens 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, See also:

OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on the Hocking See also:

RIVER

river, 62 m. S.E. of See also:

Columbus. Pop.(189o) 4558,(1900) 5421, including 328 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 204 negroes; (1910) 6082. Nelsonville is served by the Hocking Valley railway. The city is in one of the most productive See also:

COAL

coal sections of the See also:

state; there are large quantities of See also:

clay in the vicinity; and the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries are the See also:

MINING

mining and See also:

SHIPPING

shipping of coal and the manufacture of See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire-clay products. Nelsonville was settled in 1818 and was incorporated in 1838; it was named 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:

ELISHA (a Hebrew name meaning " God is deliverance ")

Elisha See also:

Nelson, who built the first See also:

house here.

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