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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 462 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEWARK , a See also:

city and the See also:county-seat of Licking county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of three forks of the Licking See also:river, on the Ohio See also:Canal, and 33 M. E. by N. of See also:Columbus. Pop. (1890) 14,270; (1900) 18,157, of whom 1342 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 300 were negroes; (1910 See also:census) 25,,404. Newark is served by the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, and the See also:Pittsburg, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & St See also:Louis See also:railways, and by inter-See also:urban electric lines. It lies on a level See also:plain, but is surrounded by hills. Along two of the forks of the Licking are some of the most extensive earthworks of the " See also:mound builders "; they occupy about 3 sq. m., and have a See also:great variety of forms: parallel walls, circles, semicircles, a parallelogram, an octagon, &c. About so m. S.W. and connected with Newark by electric See also:line is Buckeye See also:Lake, an artificial See also:body of See also:water about 8 m. See also:long and 1 M. wide, frequented as a summer resort. Among the city's attractive features are Idlewilde See also:Park and a beautiful auditorium, built as a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the See also:Civil See also:War. Newark is the See also:trade centre of an agricultural region, which also abounds in natural See also:gas and See also:coal; natural gas is piped as far as Cincinnati. The city has electric See also:car and See also:steam car shops and various manufactures, including stoves and furnaces (the most important), bottles, table See also:glass-See also:ware, cigars, rope halters, See also:machine See also:furniture and See also:bent See also:wood.

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total factory product in 1905 was valued at $5,612,587, an increase of 94.9% over that in 1900. Newark was laid out about 18o1 and was incorporated in 1813. For an See also:account of the earthworks see See also:Gerard Fowke, Archaeological See also:History of Ohio (Columbus, 1902).

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