POMEROY  , a

village and the county-seat of Meigs county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio river, about 85 m . S.S.E. of Columbus . Pop . (1890) 4726; (1900) 4639, including 453 foreign-born and 28o negroes; (1910) 4023 . Pomeroy is served by the Hocking Valley and (across the river) Baltimore & Ohio railways, by inter-urban electric railway, and by passenger and freight boats to the leading river ports . It occupies a strip of ground between the river and a range of steep hills . Bituminous coal and salt abound in the district, and there are deposits of building stone, fireclay and glass sand . The first settlement here was established in 1816, coal mining was begun three years later, and in 1827 a town was laid out and named Nyesville . There was little progress, however, until 1833, when Samuel W . Pomeroy (in whose honour the present name was adopted) formed a company, which began mining coal on a large scale . Pomeroy was incorporated as a village and was made the county-seat in 1841 . In 185o the first of several salt wells, from loon to 1200 ft. in depth, was operated .