Bucyrus (Ohio)
Crawford County
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Bucyrus is a city in the north of the U.S. state of Ohio. It lies about 45 km west of Mansfield on the Sandusky River. It is the largest city in Crawford County and its county seat ( county seat ). In the 2000 census, the city had 13,224 inhabitants.
The Lincoln Highway, which later became a part of U.S. Highway 30, was leading since 1913 along the Mansfield Street through the city. In 1971 a bypass road for motor vehicles, which passes north of the city. The four-lane feeder road west and east of the city, which replaced the old two-lane Lincoln Highway, were completed only in 2005.
History
The first group of white settlers, a total of seventeen people under the leadership of Samuel Norton from Pennsylvania, settled in 1819 on the site of today's Bucyrus. They built a log cabin on the south shore of Sandusky at a place where they found a deserted Indian wigwam. The following year, Norton acquired the land patent for 400 acres to build on a farm. At this time, the surveyor James Kilbourne explored the area for the upcoming construction of a road from Columbus to Lake Erie. Kilbourne recognized the convenient location of Norton's place of settlement and persuaded Norton to take to agriculture establishing a city to take advantage of his country. On February 22, 1822 left the new settlement in the Land Register and began in April with the sale of land that had been divided into 176 parcels; a quarter of the revenues retained a Kilbourne.
The origin of the name is disputed Bucyrus. According to the version of his descendants Norton was an admirer of the Persian king and commander Cyrus II ( Cyrus engl. ) and added his name the first syllable of the word beautiful ( "beautiful" ) to. More plausible is the explanation that the name refers to the ancient Egyptian city of Busiris, which is mentioned about in John Milton's Paradise Lost. In fact, the place in the Gazetteer of Ohio from 1825 still seems Busiris.
The new settlement grew quite quickly. On Sandusky first flour mill was built, opened in 1823 the first inn. Samuel Norton initially operated a small tannery in 1834 then a hotel. One of the main industries in Bucyrus was in these years of trade with the Indians, especially the prohibited sale of alcohol, such as a variety of fine modesty in the city archives testifies. Methodist itinerant preacher sought the city frequently, was started up in 1831 with the construction of its own, also Methodist Church. 1829 founded a Lutheran church that was built in 1837 a private house of God. In the following years presented German, also mostly Lutherans, the largest immigrant group; In 1857 they split from the original church and built their own, German -speaking church, the community until well into the 20th century was the largest of the city.
1832 Bucyrus administrative seat of Crawford County. The following year, the site was registered as an independent political administrative unit in the legal form of a village and elected the first mayor. 1886 Bucyrus was awarded the city status ( City). In 1853, the section of the Ohio and Indiana Railroad ( the 1856 part of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway and 1871 part of the holdings of the Pennsylvania Railroad was ) completed by Bucyrus and the place thus connected to the rapidly expanding railway network, which its growth even accelerated.
Today Bucyrus is mainly known for its taking place every year in August Bratwurst Festival, which attracts more than 9,000 visitors. It is a legacy of the many German immigrants in the region. In its website describes itself as the city " Bratwurst Capital of the World. "