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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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POMEROY , a See also:

VILLAGE

village 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 Meigs county, See also:

OHIO

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

RIVER

river, about 85 m. S.S.E. of See also:

Columbus. Pop. (1890) 4726; (1900) 4639, including 453 See also:

FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 28o negroes; (1910) 4023. Pomeroy is served by the Hocking Valley and (across the river) See also:

Baltimore & Ohio See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, by inter-See also:

urban electric railway, and by passenger and See also:

FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight boats to the leading river ports. It occupies a See also:

STRIP

strip of ground between the river and a range of steep hills. Bituminous See also:

COAL

coal and See also:

salt abound in the See also:

DISTRICT

district, and there are deposits of See also:

BUILDING

building See also:

stone, fireclay and See also:

glass See also:

sand. The first See also:

settlement here was established in 1816, coal See also:

MINING

mining was begun three years later, and in 1827 a See also:

TOWN

town was laid out and named Nyesville. There was little progress, however, until 1833, when See also:

SAMUEL

Samuel W. Pomeroy (in whose 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 the See also:

PRESENT

present name was adopted) formed a See also:

COMPANY

company, which began mining coal on a large See also:

scale. Pomeroy was incorporated as a village and was made the county-seat in 1841. In 185o the first of several salt See also:

wells, from loon to 1200 ft. in See also:

DEPTH

depth, was operated.

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