BOWLING

See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

GREEN  , a city and the county-seat of Wood county, Ohio, U.S.A., 20 M . S. by W. of Toledo, of which it is a residential suburb . Pop . (189o) 3467; (1900) 5067 (264 foreign-born); (191o) 5222 . Bowling Green is served by the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton and the Toledo & Ohio Central railways, and by the Toledo Urban & Interurban and the Lake Erie, Bowling Green & Napoleon electric lines, the former extending from Toledo to Dayton . It is situated in a rich agricultural region which abounds in oil and natural gas . Many of the residences and business places of Bowling Green are heated by a privately owned central hot-water heating plant . Among the manufactures are cut glass, stoves and ranges, kitchen furniture, guns, thread-cutting machines, brooms and agricultural implements . Bowling Green was first settled in 1832, was incorporated as a town in 1855, and became a city in 1904 .