POMEROY  , a See also:

• VILLAGE

village and the See also:

• COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of Meigs county, See also:

• OHIO

Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio See also:

• RIVER

river, about 85 m . S.S.E. of See also:

• COLUMBUS
• COLUMBUS, CHRISTOPHER [in Spanish CRISTOBAL COLON] (c. 1446, or perhaps rather 1451, -15o6)

Columbus . Pop . (1890) 4726; (1900) 4639, including 453 See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign-See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born and 28o negroes; (1910) 4023 . Pomeroy is served by the Hocking Valley and (across the river) See also:

• BALTIMORE
• BALTIMORE, GEORGE CALVERT, 1ST BARON (C. 1580—1632)

Baltimore & Ohio See also:

• RAILWAYS

railways, by inter-See also:

• URBAN
• URBAN (Urbanus)

urban electric railway, and by passenger and See also:

• FREIGHT, (pronounced like " weight "; derived from the Dutch vracht or vrecht, in Fr. fret, the Eng. " fraught " being the same word, and formerly used for the same thing, but now only as an adjective= " laden ")

freight boats to the leading river ports . It occupies a See also:

• STRIP

strip of ground between the river and a range of steep hills . Bituminous See also:

• COAL

coal and See also:

• SALT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch zout, Ger. Salz, Scand. salt; cognate with Gr. &Xs, Lat. sal)
• SALT, SIR TITUS, BART

salt abound in the See also:

• DISTRICT

district, and there are deposits of See also:

• BUILDING

building See also:

• STONE
• STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
• STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
• STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
• STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
• STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
• STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
• STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
• STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)

stone, fireclay and See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass See also:

• SAND
• SAND, GEORGE (1804-1876)

sand . The first See also:

• SETTLEMENT
• SETTLEMENT, ACT OF

settlement here was established in 1816, coal See also:

• MINING

mining was begun three years later, and in 1827 a See also:

• TOWN

town was laid out and named Nyesville . There was little progress, however, until 1833, when See also:

• SAMUEL

Samuel W . Pomeroy (in whose See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the See also:

• PRESENT

present name was adopted) formed a See also:

• COMPANY

company, which began mining coal on a large See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale . Pomeroy was incorporated as a village and was made the county-seat in 1841 . In 185o the first of several salt See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

wells, from loon to 1200 ft. in See also:

• DEPTH

depth, was operated .