Logan (Ohio)

Hocking County

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Logan is a city in Hocking County Hocking River in the south of the American state of Ohio, about 50 km southeast of Columbus. Logan has about 7,000 inhabitants (as of the census of 2010), and is the seat of the administration of the County Hocking.

In Logan are a number of listed buildings that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP). These include the Town Hall of Logan and the Catholic Church of Saint John the Evangelist.

History

Logan was founded in 1816 by the then Governor of Ohio Thomas Worthington. Worthington had near the waterfall Hocking If acquired and the land for the new foundation for $ 1,000 and built two mills. 1818 Logan became the seat of Hocking County. The town developed as a result mainly due to the development of transport routes and the exploitation of natural resources. 1840 reached the Hocking Canal the place that connected with Logan Athens, Lancaster and the Ohio - Erie Canal. 1869 reached the Hocking Valley Railway the place. In the 19th century coal was mined in the Hocking Valley increased, but the reduction came to Logan to a halt after the New Straitsville - coal seam a coal burnt down. At the end of the 19th century, natural gas was discovered, the deposits were exhausted but after a few years. The city adopted a new boom, as there, the repair work of the Hocking Valley Railway was opened in 1907. When the plant was closed in 1930 again, it went well with the city downhill again, exacerbated by the Great Depression.

Personalities

• Curtis Scaparrotti (* 1956), General in the U.S. Army, who was born in Logan.
• Katie Smith ( born 1974 ), professional basketball player who grew up in Logan.