Margaret's creek, a stream running from the southwest into the Hockhocking river, opposite Athens. Margaretta, a township of Huron county, in which is situated the town of Venice; on the southern shore of Sandusky bay. In this township are two post officesone at Venice and the other at Cold spring, called Margaretta. Distance about 110 miles northeast from Columbus. Marietta, a post town and seat of justice for Washington county. It was the earliest town of much importance settled in the state, it being laid out by the Ohio company, August 1787, and settled in the 7th April, following, by eight familes. Gen. Rufus Putnam of Leicester, in Worcester county, Mass. was among the first and most efficient of the first settles. Forty-seven came with him. In the fall, twenty more families came on.It is beautifully situated on the western bank of the Ohio immediately above the mouth of Muskingum river, in à township of the same name. It contains a large presbyterian meeting house of handsome structure, an academy, the public county buildings, a printing office, a bank, about twenty mercantile stores, and 90 dwelling houses. Population in 1826, was 1050; and in 1820, of the whole township, 2,036. In 1830, the population of the village was 1205, and of the rest of the township 709; total in Marietta township 1914.-Showing a decrease, within 10 years, of 122. The people in Marietta are characterized by politeness of address and urbanity of manners, which render their society peculiarly agreeable to persons of taste and refinement. During several years previously to the year 1806, 'ship building was carried on to a considerable extent. But since that period it has been suspended. One serious inconvenice experienced by the people, is, its being almost annually overflowed; especially Water and several other streets, sometimes to the depth of eight or ten feet. The post office here is a distributing office for the mail arriving directly from Washington city to this state. Distance, from Washington 315 miles [See page 54.] nati, 100 southeasterly rom Columbus, and 61 southeast from Zanesville. N. lat. 39o 25', W. lon. 4o 28'. Marietta, land district of. Marion, a county bounded on the north by Crawford east by Richland, south by Delaware and Union counties, and on the west by Hardin county. It is 33 miles long from east to west, and 18 broad from north to south, containing about 530 square miles. This county comprises the height of land between the Sandusky and Scioto rivers. Much of it is open plain, or table land, composing the southernmost part of what are called the Sandusky plains. Much of it is, however, heavily timbered, and of a very rich and fertile quality of soil. It is well watered by the Scioto, Little Scioto, and Whetstone rivers; besides numerous smaller streams. Marion county is divided into the fourteen following townships, viz:Big Island, Canaan, Claridon, Grand, Grandprairie, Greencamp, Marion, Morven, Pleasant, Richland, Salt rock, Scott, Tully, and Washington. There are five post offices in the county, to wit:-in Marion, Whetstone in Morven township, Cochranton and Grand, in Grand township, and one in Big Island township. Marion county was constituted, by name and boundaries, in February 1820; but not organized, until January 1824. Seat of justice Marion. This county was first settled, in the year 1820. On the 15th of August of that year, the first tracts of land therein were offered for sale; when the settlement commenced. The inhab itants are from other parts of Ohio, from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland, and a few from Kentucky. Marion, a post town and seat of justice for Marion county. It was laid out in 1822; and contains seven stores, three taverns and several mechanics, beside the public buildings. Distance, 64 miles south by west from Sandusky city and 45 in nearly a north direction from Columbus, N. lat. 40° 35', W. lon. 6o 8'. Marion, the southwesternmost township of Clinton county. It was set off from the south end of Vernon township, in June, 1830. Marlborough, a township in the northern borders of Delaware county, in which is situated the village of Norton Marshallsville, the name of a post office in Baughman township, Wayne county, about 13 miles east by north from Wooster, and 102 northeast from Columbus. Martinsburg, a small post town in Clay township, Knox county,59 miles northeast from Columbus. Martins mills, the name of the post office in Green township, Richland county, about 75 miles northeast from Columbus and 13 southeast from Mansfield. Martinsville, a small town in Clark township Clinton county, nine miles south of Wilmington. It contains two stores and two taverns. Marysville, a small post town and seat of justice for Union county. It is situated on the south bank of Mill creek, in Paris township about 16 miles west from Delaware, 30 northwest from Columbus, 30 northerly from London, 24 northeast from Urbana, and 20 southeast of Bellefontaine N. lat. 40° 17', W. lon. 6° 24'. Here are four stores, two taverns, besides several mechanics, and the usual public buildings, It is situated on the western side of the Virginia military survey, No. 3351; which was surveyed for Edward Dowse, and patented to Stephen T. Mason, of Loudon county, Va. and that third part thereof, on which the the town is laid out, was subsequently transferred to Samuel W. Culbertson, esq. of Zanesville, who had the town surveyed off and named it Marysville, after the name of his daughter Mary; and to whom he gave it on her marriage to J. Matthiott, esq. Maryann, a township of Licking county. Mary's Fort St. [See Fort St. Mary's.] Massie's creek, a considerable mill stream, rising in the lower and western corner of Madison county, running a generally southwestern direction into the east side of the Little Miami river, four miles above Xenia. In this stream, seven miles northeasterly from Xenia, are a series of falls for two or three miles. The main stream, after having silently meandered from Madison into the interior of Green county, several miles along the plain or table land, between the Scioto and Miami rivers, approaches the more hilly country near Xenia, and suddenly precipitates itself over a stratum of rock, and then again silently glides along some miles at the bottom of a chasm 20 feet wide, and from 30 to 60 feet deep, with perpendicular sides of rock, occasionally, however, pitching over falls of from eight to twelve feet perpendicularly. Interspersed at several places along these falls, are mills of various kinds, one of which is a woollen cloth factory. A view of these falls is truly a rich treat to the lover of romantic scenery. The direct road from Columbus the civil, to Cincinnati, the commercial capital of Ohio, leading past and along these falls, will afford the facilities and opportunity for numerous visits by travellers. Massillon, a town laid out in March 1826, on the Ohio canal, and on the east side of Tuscarawas river, in Perry township, Stark county, on the road leading from Canton to Wooster. It contains a printing office, eight stores, three taverns, two large merchant flouring mills, four extensive ware houses, and a woollen factory. Distance, eight miles west from Canton, 22 east from Wooster and 111 northeast from Columbus, by road, and 150 by canal. Maumee, a considerable river, commencing in the northeastern quarter of the state of Indiana, and flowing northeastwardly, across the northwestern borders of the state of Ohio, into the western extremity of lake Erie. Within 33 miles of the mouth, commence a course of shoals and rapids, extending 15 miles below, to within 18 miles of the lake, and which, for that distance obstruct the navigation. It is generally from 150 to 200 yards wide. It is formed by the confluence of St. Joseph's, St. Mary's rivers, and Great and Little Auglaize. This river has had a variety of names given it by travellers and others, which circumstance has caused much confusion and perplexity to people abroad, concerning the rivers in this quarter of the western country. By some it has been called the St. Maurice, by others the "Omie," but more frequently, the "Miami of the Lake:" the words "of the Lake," being added, to dishinguish it from the Great Miami, which runs southerly into the Ohio river, But as the original Indian pronunciation of the name of this river is "Maumee," and as this mode of writing it had partially obtained, when this work was first compiled, and as this manner of spelling and pronouncing it, would likewise preclude the necessity, of the frequent circumlocution of the words "of the lake," in writing and conversation, it is deemed proper to endeavor to establish this mode for its writing and pronunciation. And the author has the pleasure of remarking, that the above considerations have induced the almost universal adoption of his mode of writing it, since the former editions of this work have been published. Maumee, a post town or village situated on the northwest bank of the river of the same name, nearly opposite fort Meigs. It has three stores and seems prosperous. Distance, 32 miles northwesterly from Lower Sandusky, and 136 north by west from Columbus. Maumee bay, a dilation of the Maumee river for several miles from its mouth; into which sets the water of lake Erie, Mayfield, a township in the eastern borders of Cuya hoga county, containing in 1820, 159 inhabitants. Mead, an eastern township of Belmont county, situa ted on the Ohio river. Meander, a small stream rising along the southern confines of Trumbull county, and running thence 15 or 20 miles in a northeasterly direction, into the Mahoning river, in Weathersfield. It was so called by the original surveyers of this country, on account of its remarkably crooked and meandering course. Meander. [See Austintown.] Mecca, a post town in the northern part of Trumbull County, 170 miles northeast from Columbus. Population, 353. Dis Mechanicsburg, a post town of Champaign county, in Goshen township, near the head of Little Darby containing 21 houses, two stores, a grist and saw mill. tance, 11 miles easterly from Urbana, and 32 northwesterly from Columbus. |