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Allen Cemetery Antrim Presbyterian Cemetery Banker Cemetery Barker Cemetery Battle Ridge Cemetery Baum Hill Cemetery - Twin Twp. Beech Grove Chapel Cemetery Bells Cemetery Bethel Cemetery Bethel Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Bethel Methodist Protestant Cemetery Birds Run Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Birmingham Cemetery Bond Cemetery Buffalo Cemetery Bunfills Cemetery Carlisle Cemetery Cedar Cemetery Center Baptist Cemetery Chestnut Hill United Brethren Cemetery Clear Fork Cemetery Clear Fork Cemetery Cumberland Cemetery - Spencer Twp. Cumberland Cemetery Darby Cemetery Earleys Cemetery East Union Cemetery Eldon Cemetery Elizabethtown Cemetery Engle Cemetery Enon Cemetery Fairview Cemetery Flat Ridge Cemetery Flat Ridge Cemetery Fletcher Cemetery Ford Cemetery Forney Cemetery Founders Cemetery Frame Number One Cemetery Friends Cemetery George Cemetery Gibson Station Cemetery Glenview Cemetery Greenlawn Cemetery Greenwood Cemetery Guernsey Memorial Gardens Harmony Cemetery Hawthorne Farm Cemetery Hopetown Cemetery - Springfield Twp. Hopewell Methodist Episcopal Cemetery Irish Ridge Cemetery Jones Cemetery Kimbolton Cemetery		Leatherwood Cemetery Ledman Family Cemetery Lebanon Cemetery Liberty Township Cemetery Lore City Cemetery Luzader Family Cemetery McCleary Cemetery McCoy Cemetery McQuade Cemetery Millwood Township Cemetery Milnerville Cemetery Minney Graveyard - Twin Twp. Morrow Cemetery Mount Calvary Cemetery Mount Carmel Cemetery - Springfield Twp. Mount Herman Cemetery Mount Zion Cemetery Nessel Cemetery - Twin Twp. North Salem Cemetery Northfield Cemetery Northwood Cemetery - north of town Old Cambridge Cemetery Old City Cemetery Old Hartford Cemetery Old Kimbolton Cemetery Old Washington Cemetery Overley Chapel Cemetery - Springfield Twp. Pisgah Cemetery Pleasant City Protestant Cemetery Pleasant Hill Cemetery Pleasant Hill Methodist Protestant Cemet Quaker Cemetery Saint Michael Cemetery Saint Patricks Cemetery Salem Baptist Cemetery Salt Fork Baptist Cemetery Sandhill Cemetery Sarchet Run Cemetery Scotch Covenanter Cemetery Senecaville Cemetery Sigman Cemetery Storms Cemetery - Twin Twp. Sunset View Cemetery Township Cemetery Union Hill Cemetery Waller Cemetery Weaver Cemetery Wills Twp. Cemetery Winterset Cemetery Worthing Cemetery Yankee Point Cemetery Zion Cemetery

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Byesville Branch Library Glass Avenue Byesville, OH 43723		Guernsey County District Public Library 800 Steubenville Avenue Cambridge, OH 43725

A LITTLE ABOUT GUERNSEY COUNTY, OHIO:
Guernsey County is among the older ones of the state, and was organized in March, 1810; it was named in honor of the Guernsey Isles by a number of distinguished emigrants who had come from that far-off land in search of wealth and freedom. The surface of Guernsey county is badly broken, but the soil is generally fertile. The country is drained by Wills Creek which flows north through the county.
The population of Guernsey county in 1900 was 34,425 while in 1910 it was 42,716; its area is 517 square miles comprising of the following townships:

Adams	Cambridge	Center	Jackson
Jefferson	Knox	Liberty	Londenderry
Madison	Millwood	Monroe	Oxford
Richland	Spencer	Valley	Washington
Westland	Wheeling	Wills

     Farming and stock raising are leading industries and much fine wool is grown. Mining is also a leading occupation in Guernsey county, and the Cambridge coal is known throughout the land as a superior quality of soft coal; it is being mined in vast quantities, and sent through the great lakes to the Northwest.
     In 1796 Col. Ebenezer Zane received funds to cut a road form Ohio to Kentucky. He responded by naming the first settlements in honor of Cambridge, Maryland. The land on which part of Cambridge stands was granted to Zaccheus Biggs and Zaccheus Beatty by the government in 1801. In 1806 another group of early settlers from the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel of England pitched camp in Cambridge because the women in the party refused to move on.
     The Cambridge, Ohio area experienced massive flooding in late June 1998
     Guernsey county is favored with numerous small villages in various parts of the county, which make important and convenient trade centers for the people in their respective vicinities. The villages are:

Lore City	Byesville	Kimbolton	Quaker City	Salesville
Fairview	Senecaville	Cumberland	Pleasant City	Washington

Guernsey county was settled by individuals from various regions. The Massachusetts Yankee with the Pennsylvania Dutch, located in the southwest, while Quakers from North Carolina and Pennsylvania gathered in the southeast. A portion of the northern part of the county is settled by the Irish, while two townships in the southern part are settled by families from New Jersey, that are direct descendents of the Hessians. The descendants of General Stark are residents of this county, and the man who holds the second oar in the painting of "Perry's Victory" was "Fighting Bill Reed," also a Guernsey county man.

COURTHOUSE INFO:
County Commissioners
627 Wheeling Avenue #300
Cambridge, OH 43725-2292
Phone: (740) 432-9200

County Seat: Cambridge
Year Organized: 1810
Square Miles: 522

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