Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Agricultural and Mineral Resources of Muskingum County
Prelinunary Sketch. - The act of the General Assembly of Ohio, creating the county of Muskingum, bears date March 1, 1804, one year and three months after the formation of the first Constitution of the State. The county was carved out of territory which, prior to the above date, was a part of the Counties of Fairfield and Wash ington. Muskingum included in its original limits What is now Coshocton, and portions of Holmes, Tuscarawas, Guernsey, Perry and Morgan Counties. Muskingum is an Indian word, and its meaning is somewhat in doubt. One legend has it that the word means an Elk's Eye, or the glare of an Elk's Eye, while another defines the word a town on the river side. The County is named after the river which passes through it. Muskingum, it will be seen, is one of the oldest Counties in Ohio almost as old as the State it self, but its history, further than this preliminary sketch, is foreign to the present purpose.
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