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Show lMIGRANT'S GUfDE. who vic with those of Zanesville in act ive enterprise; in reality the two places may be ~trictl y consider· d as one town. Putnam is muked on Hough & Bournes's map by the name or Spring!iclu , though the name h s changed by a leg islative act nt the session of 18 13-14. Tbe situat ion of these towns, eitht r as a manufacturi 1g or mP- rc::\n ~ tile posi tion, is very ;;1uvantag ous. The navi <r ntiun of the Musl<irwurn is unintNmptcd to the mouth. The adj<lcent country is fertile :md well p~=>op l ed ; it is ~ifuated 138 miles c:;oulbwest by west from Pit tsburg. 67 northeast from ChilliL•Jthe, and 161 northeast uy east from Cincinnati. Marietta, is the olJest town in the state, some of tbe settlers h::lVing formeJ their locati Cins in 1787. It is a post town and seat of"ju~tice for Washington county, a11d is si tu~t.ed upon tbe peninsula l<mncu by the Muskin~mn and Obio rivets, at 39° 30' north J· t. and 4° ~8' west Ion. from \Vashingto 1 city. 'I'be aJvance of thi town in relative importance has not orne ! proportion to its prior settlement or appa r ,nt tavourable position. The site of the town though otherwise delighttiJl, is liable to annual overtlow ; an inc mvenience w hichJ from tbe peculiar localities, i~ ir-l'emeJ i able. - Ship- building commenced here about l 800? and was many years carried on ; se veral ve:, els were built, but the interruption in commerce bet ween 18 06 anu 1815 suspended this business ; a weal thy commercial and expot ting company bas been recently formed in this town, which will no tloubt adJ greatly to its future pro perity. The mail arrives here direct from Wa ~hin gton, a distance of 320 mile ; there is a distributing post office for the various other part~ of the btate . . The number of inhabitants may amount perhaps to 1000. Steubenvzlle, the seat of justice for J efierson county, and a post tow11, st uus upon the right bank of Ohio, at 40° 25' north lat. and 3° 40' west Ion. from Wash ington city. The site of this town is like that of Cincinnati, composed of two banks r 'sina from t Je river. Tl ~ scene ·y in the neiglluou rhood is romantic and pl~asino- ; the op· pos1te shore of Virginia is a bold ledge of rocks rising abruptly almost from the w~ter ed?"e to an elev ation of 250 or 300 feet. Though v. ery billy and broken in both Viwinia and the state of Ohio ' the ad· Jtlcent country affords much very fertile bottoms and high Jand. It is one. of tbe most wea~thy, best peopled and cultivated tracts in the Umted States west of the Aleghany moUI tains. The town was laid out iu streets and lots in 1798. The author of this tr at ise was on the ~pot in the first week of January, J 799; there was then one mercantile store, two sli,rbt frame houses, and ~~out a d?zen miserab~e cabins. Most of th~ ground was covered With a th1ck forest ; little appearance was theu exhibi ted of the flouri shi 11g aud beau tiful town th at now adorns the banl<s of the Ohio. Withi~ nue nJO~t 1. uf ~8 years (February, 18 J 7 ,) after the time of: the fo regomg Je ·cnpt10n , ot~ube nville contained upwards of 450 dwelll.ng· holl!es, aud a populatwn of 2000 inhalJitants ; a printing ofhce, woollen and .cotton factory, paper-milL neJr 60 mercautile stores, a hank, a !SpaciOus ~lark~t·bouse, an air foun dry . In the vicinity are ~cveral saw and gn~t m1lls, as also a number of distill riei. / EMIGRAN1~'S GUIDE. This town po. ~esscs the invaluable advantage of having an al~ost inexhaustiule body of mineral coal within a 5hort di stance. Lnne· ~ton~ , exce llent building stoue, and also sandstone exist in abun· dance ncar the banl\ of Ohio rivu, both above and below the town. Iron ore i~ found in buth the states of Virginia and Ohio; a furnace and a for cre were in ope ra tion upon King's creek, in Brooke county, Virgin ia,bin l7 ~W, witbin eight miles from Steubenville; bar iron i1 ho vevcr imported from ennsy lvania. The foregoing are the principal towns of the state of Ohio : there are severa l very flou rishing viJlz,ges, tbouah of secondary consequence; such as Xf!nia, in Green county, Greenville in Darke , Troy in MicHni, Urbanna in Cham p· ign, Delaware in Delaware, Willi amsburg in Clermont Ne'"' Lancaste r iu Fairfield , Athens in Athens, Coshocton in Coshoc't on, Mount VNuon in Knox, New Philadelphia in Tu~kara· was, Wooster in Wayne, Canton in Stark , Cadiz in Harrison, Lis· bon in Columbia, Warren i 1 Trumbull, and. Jefferson in Ashtabu la. county. New towns are annually l'l mg in such numbers, as to render it e.xtremtly uiliicult to enable to pog rapbicaJ Jcscription to keep pace wtth 1he progre s of improvement. Production~,--Seasons,-Clima.te.-We have rnauc these objects a t(;para le arti cle, from a eousideration, th at, from its po .. ition, tlw state of Ohio must affonl a pictu re of nea Jy the whole valley ot tbe river from ·which i ls name is taken. The fo llowing list contains the most valuable of the timber trees of Ohio. Platanus occitlentalis, J uglans nig ra, J U(!ians ci ne rea, or cathartica, J u'g lans squamosa, J ugl<'lns porcin::1, J uglans am~ra, Quercus tinctoria, Q,ue rcus alba, 'luercus prinos acuminata, ({ue rcus priuos monticola, Q,uercus fa lcata, Q,uercus rubra, Acer ~acch:Hinum, Acer rubrum, Acer negundo, P opulus Lleltoide, or angulata, Populus tremula, P avia lutea, Laurus sa ss~ fras , Circis canadersis, P runus virginiana, Tilia pubescens, Tilia americana, Button wood, Black walnu~ Butter nut, Shell b rk hickory, Pignu t bicl<ory, Bitt(!rnut hickory, Black oak, . White oak, several species. Ches tnut oak, Mountain oak, Sranish oak, Red oak, Suga r t:naple, Red flowering maple, Box alder, Cotlon wood,~ Aspen, Buckeye, Sassafras, Red bud, \Vi ld cherry, Downy leaved linden Black linden, * This tree gro vs upon the Obio ai ll-ij;h zs Sti!ubenville. |