NEWARK  , a

city and the county-seat of Licking county, Ohio, U.S.A., at the confluence of three forks of the Licking river, on the Ohio Canal, and 33 M . E. by N. of Columbus . Pop . (1890) 14,270; (1900) 18,157, of whom 1342 were foreign-born and 300 were negroes; (1910 census) 25,,404 . Newark is served by the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St Louis railways, and by inter-urban electric lines . It lies on a level plain, but is surrounded by hills . Along two of the forks of the Licking are some of the most extensive earthworks of the " mound builders "; they occupy about 3 sq. m., and have a great variety of forms: parallel walls, circles, semicircles, a parallelogram, an octagon, &c . About so m . S.W. and connected with Newark by electric line is Buckeye Lake, an artificial body of water about 8 m. long and 1 M. wide, frequented as a summer resort . Among the city's attractive features are Idlewilde Park and a beautiful auditorium, built as a memorial to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War . Newark is the trade centre of an agricultural region, which also abounds in natural gas and coal; natural gas is piped as far as Cincinnati . The city has electric car and steam car shops and various manufactures, including stoves and furnaces (the most important), bottles, table glass-ware, cigars, rope halters, machine furniture and bent wood .

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total factory product in 1905 was valued at $5,612,587, an increase of 94.9% over that in 1900 . Newark was laid out about 18o1 and was incorporated in 1813 . For an account of the earthworks see Gerard Fowke, Archaeological History of Ohio (Columbus, 1902) .