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CAMBRIDGE

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 97 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAMBRIDGE  , a

city and the county-seat of Guernsey county,
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Ohio, U.S.A., on Wills Creek, about 75 M . E. by N. of Columbus . Pop . (1890) 4361; (1900) 8241, of whom 407 were
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foreign-born; (1910 census) 11,327 . It is served by the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania
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railways, and is connected by an electric
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line with Byesville (pop. in 1910, 3156), about 7 M . S . Cambridge is built on a hill about 80o ft. above sea-level . There is a public library .
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Coal, oil, natural
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gas, clay and iron are found in the vicinity, and among the city's manufactures are iron, steel, glass, furniture and pottery . The value of its factory products in 1905 was $2,440,917 . The
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municipality owns and operates the
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water-
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works . Cambridge was first settled in 1798 by emigrants from the island of Guernsey (whence the name of the county); was laid out as a
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town in '8o6; was incorporated as a
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village in 1837; and was chartered as a city in 1893 .

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