BELLEFONTAINE
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V03,
Page 696
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
BELLEFONTAINE
, a city and the county-seat of Logan county, Ohio, U.S.A., about 45 M
.
N.W. of Columbus
.
Pop
.
(1890) 4245; (r9oo) 6649 (267 foreign- born); (igio) 8238
.
It is served by the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St See also: - LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
(which has large shops here) and the Ohio Central railways; also by the Dayton, Springfield & Urbana electric railway
.
It is built on the south- west slope of a See also: - HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
having an elevation of about 1500 ft. above sea-level and at the foot of which are several springs of clear water which suggested the city's name
.
Among the city's manufactures are iron bridges, carriage-bodies, flour and cement
.
The municipality owns and operates its water- works system and its gas and electric- lighting plants
.
Bellefontaine was first settled about 1818, was laid out as a town and made the county-seat in 182o and was incorporated in 1835
.
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