MARTINS

FERRY  , a city of Belmont county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio River, nearly opposite Wheeling, West Virginia . Pop . (189o), 6250; (1900), 7760, including 1033 foreign-born and 252 negroes; (191o), 9133 . It is served by the Pennsylvania (Cleveland & Pittsburg Division), the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Wheeling & Lake Erie (Wabash System) railways, and by several steamboat lines . The city is situated on two plateaus; the lower is occupied chiefly by factories, the upper by dwellings . Coal mining and manufacturing are the principal industries; among factory products are iron, steel, tin, stoves, machinery and glassware . The municipality owns and operates the water-works and an electric-lighting plant . A settlement was attempted here in 1785, but was abandoned on account of trouble with the Indians . In 1795 a town was laid out by Absalom Martin and was called Jefferson, but this, too, was abandoned, on, yeP°inu '* MARTINIQUE p.~oPot English Mites • o t a 4 6 8 to ~nP °t M O„nM so` Boundary of ~••ondiapematta---~ "' ~• C . Salomon Grande Aare d'Arlet Bourg . Pt . ,Pdxe Arse d'Arld Pone Arse du Oran ..

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Diamond Basil 3 ~ •''s'eP°` OwJerour account of its not being made the county-seat . The town was laid out again in 1835 by Ebenezer Martin (son of Absalom Martin) and was called Martinsville; the present name was substituted a few years later . The Martins and other pioneers are buried in Walnut Grove Cemetery within the city limits . Martins Ferry was incorporated as a town in 1865 and chartered as a city in 1885 .