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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ture, far aa eye ma)Saw a vision of the world, anil what would be, and thus early laid plans for the maintenanceof a university of learning in that as yetunbroken wilderness, teeming with paintedsavages. A considerable number of immigrantsassembled at Marietta in 1797, anxious toobtain land on the best terms, and the OhioCompany wishing to encourage early settle-ment of the college lands in order to make the first white woman to reach the newsettlement. F\)r a long time Athens was but a scat-tered settlement along both banks of theHockhocking River, bearing but littleresemblance to a town. The passage of theriver was made by ferry boats, little scowswhich were poled or rowed across from onehank to the other. Athens, however, formed another linkin the chain of settlements stretching acrosssouthern < )hio between Marietta and Cincin-nati, and as coming events cast theirshadows before, the second postal routewest of the Alleghenies (the first beingfrom Zanesville to Marietta) was soon
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-3- -r;. B. & i>. S.-W. aOYAL BLUE TRAIN. them productive and lay the foundation ofa fund for the institution, induced them tolocate in these townships, which in accord-ance with the terms of purchase fromCongress, were located near the center ofthe Ohio Companys purchase, traversed bywinding and crooked Hockhocking River.Marly in the year 171)7, therefore, a littlecompany made their way down the Ohioand up the Hockhocking River, until theyreached the attractive bluff where the townof Athens now stands. Here they landedand sought various locations. Early thenext year more settlers came, some bringingtheir families, and Margaret Creek was sonamed in honor of Mrs. Margaret Snowden, established from Marietta to Cincinnati, viaAthens and Chillicothe, and the lonely postrider on his scrubby pony, jogging slowlyalong through miles of unbroken forest,bearing a single not very heavy mail bag,taking days for the journey, was the fore-runner (if anything so slow could be calleda runner)

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