Coshocton, Ohio

Coshocton County

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Coshocton ( kəʃɔktən ) is a city and the county seat of Coshocton County, Ohio, United States. The city's population was 11,682 at the 2000 census. The Walhonding River and the Tuscarawas River meet in Coshocton to coalesce in the Muskingum River. The name means "union of the waters" in the language of the Delaware Indians.

In the city, Roscoe, a restored canal settlement is. This on now since repaired for tourist rides Ohio - Erie Canal village is a tourist attraction.

History

Coshocton (then under the name Tuscarawa ) was before the settlement by the whites, the capital of the Indian tribe of the Lenni Lenape, which are also called Delaware. The Coshocton County was founded in 1810 by a split from Muskingum County and the settlement Founded in 1802, became the county seat. The name Coshocton got the city officially by resolution of the Legislature of Ohio in 1811.

Personalities

  • Alan Abel ( born 1930 ), American media representative, who caused a sensation with fake documentation
  • Robert Earl Brenly (born 1954 ), football player
  • William Wallace Burns (1825-1892), officer in the American Civil War
  • Edgar McNabb (1865-1894), basketball player
  • Noah Haynes Swayne (1804-1884), Judge of the Supreme Court of 1862-1881
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