BUCYRUS  , a

city and the county-seat of Crawford county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Sandusky river, 62 m . N. of Columbus . Pop . (189o) J974; (1900) 656o (756 foreign-born); (191o) 8122 . It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Toledo, Walhonding Valley & Ohio (Pennsylvania system), and the Ohio Central railways, and by interurban electric lines . The Ohio Central, of which Bucyrus is a division terminal, has shops here . The city lies at an elevation of about l000 ft. above sea-level, and is surrounded by a country well adapted to agriculture and stock-raising . Among its manufactures are machinery, structural steel, ventilating and heating apparatus, furniture, interior woodwork, ploughs, wagons, carriages, copper products and clay-working machines . Bucyrus was first settled in 1817; it was laid out as a town in 1822, was incorporated as a village in 1830, and became a city in 1885 . The county-seat was permanently established here in 183o .