COSHOCTON  , a

city and the county-seat of Coshocton county, Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of the Tuscarawas and the Walhonding rivers, with the Muskingum river, and about 70 M . E.N.E . of Columbus . Pop . (1890) 3672; (1900) 6473 (364 foreign- born); (1910) 9603 . It is served by the Pennsylvania, the Pitts- burg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis (controlled by the Pennsylvania), and the Wheeling & Lake Erie railways . The city is built on a series of four broad terraces, the upper one of which has an elevation of 824 ft. above sea-level, and commands pleasant views of the river and the valley . It has a public library . Coshocton is the commercial centre of an extensive agricultural district and has manufactories of paper, glass, flour, china-ware, cast-iron pipes and especially of advertising specialities . The municipality owns and operates its water-works . Coshocton occupies the site of a former Indian village of the same name—the chief village of the Turtle tribe of the Delawares . This village was destroyed by the whites in 1781 .

The first

settlement by whites was begun in 1801; and in 1802 the place was laid out as a town and named Tuscarawas . In 1811, when it was made the county-seat, the present name was adopted . Coshocton was first incorporated in 1833 .