Bucyrus (Ohio)
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Location in Ohio
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Crawford County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 48 ′ N , 82 ° 58 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 13,224 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 699.7 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 18.9 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) | ||
| Height : | 303 m | ||
| Postal code : | 44820 | ||
| Area code : | +1 419 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-10030 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1056736 | ||
| Website : | www.cityofbucyrusoh.us | ||
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Bucyrus is a city in the north of the US state Ohio . It is located about 45 km west of Mansfield on the Sandusky River . It is the largest city in Crawford County and its county seat . In the 2000 census , the place had 13,224 inhabitants.
The Lincoln Highway , which later became part of US Highway 30 , has been running along Mansfield Street through the city since 1913. In 1971 a bypass road for motor vehicles was built, which leads past the city to the north. The four-lane freeway slip roads west and east of the city, which replaced the old two-lane Lincoln Highway, were not completed until 2005.
history
The first group of white settlers, a total of 17 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 bank of the Sandusky in a place where they found an abandoned Indian wigwam . The following year Norton acquired the land patent on 400 acres in order to build a farm on it. At that time, surveyor James Kilbourne was exploring the area for the upcoming construction of a road from Columbus to Lake Erie . Kilbourne recognized the convenient location of Norton's settlement and persuaded Norton to use his land to found a town instead of agriculture. On February 22, 1822, they registered the new settlement in the cadastre and in April began selling the land, which had been divided into 176 parcels ; Kilbourne withheld a quarter of the proceeds.
The origin of the name Bucyrus is debatable. According to the version of his descendants, Norton was an admirer of the Persian king and general Cyrus II (English Cyrus ) and added the first syllable of the word beautiful to his name . More plausible is the explanation that the name refers to the ancient Egyptian city of Busiris , which is mentioned in John Milton's Paradise Lost . In fact, the place appears in the Gazetteer Ohio from 1825 as Busiris.
The new settlement grew quite quickly. The first flour mill was built on Sandusky, and the first inn opened in 1823. Samuel Norton first ran a small tannery, then from 1834 a hotel. One of the main livelihoods in Bucyrus during these years was the trade with the Indians, especially the forbidden sale of alcohol, as a number of fines in the city archives attest. Methodist itinerant preachers frequented the city until the construction of their own Methodist church began in 1831. In 1829 a Lutheran congregation was founded, which built its own church in 1837. In the years that followed, Germans, mostly Lutherans, were the largest group of immigrants; In 1857 they split off from the original parish and built their own German-speaking church, the parish of which was the largest in the city well into the 20th century.
In 1832 Bucyrus became the administrative seat of Crawford County. In the following year, the place was registered as an independent political administrative unit in the legal form of a village and the first mayor was elected. In 1886 Bucyrus was granted city status (City). In 1853 the section of the Ohio and Indiana Railroad (which became part of the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway in 1856 and part of a holding of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1871 ) to Bucyrus was completed and the place was thus connected to the rapidly expanding railway network, which accelerated its growth .
Today Bucyrus is best known for its Bratwurst Festival, which takes place annually in August and attracts more than 9,000 visitors. It is a legacy of the numerous German immigrants in this region. On its website, the city describes itself as the "Bratwurst World Capital."
Web links
- Bucyrus Tourism & Visitors Bureau - Tourist Information
- Bucyrus, Ohio - Entry in the Online Encyclopedia of Ohio History
Individual evidence
- ↑ US Census Bureau
- ^ Nevin O. Winter (ed.): A History of Northwest Ohio. Lewis, Chicago and New York, 1917. Vol. I, pp. 395-396.
- ^ A History of Northwest Ohio. Lewis, Chicago and New York, 1917. Vol. I, pp. 398-399.
- ^ A History of Northwest Ohio. Lewis, Chicago and New York, 1917. Vol. I, pp. 400-404.
- ↑ Discover Bucyrus ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
