Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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llage. The town plat was owned and the town laid outby Increase Matthews, Levi Whipple and Edwin Putnam. The latter two aredead ; Dr. Matthews still resides in Putnam. The town was originally called Springfield, but there being a Springfield inClarke county the name of the former was changed to Putnam. The viewrepresents Putnam as it appears from the east bank of the Muskingum, about amile below the steamboat landing at Zanesville. The bridge connecting Putnam MUSKINGUM COUNTY. 609 with Zanesville is seen on the right. On the left is shown a church and the topof the seminary a little to the right of it. The Putnam Female Seminary is an incorporated institution and has been inoperation about ten years. The principal edifice stands in an area of three acresand cost, with its furniture, about $20,000. Pupils under fourteen years of ageare received into the preparatory department. Those over fourteen enter theupper department, in which the regular course of study requires three years and,
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Drawn by Henry Howe in 1846. The Putnam Female Seminary. excepting the languages, is essentially like a college course. It is proposed soonto extend the time to four years and make the course the same as in colleges,substituting the German for Greek. The average number of pupils has beenabout one hundred. By reason of the endowments the term bills are very muchless than any similar school in the country. Exclusive of extra studies the costper year will not exceed $100 per scholar. There are five teachers in thisflourishing institution, of which Miss Mary Cone is the principal. It is underthe general direction of a board of trustees.— Old Edition. Zanesville, county-seat of Muskingum, at the junction of the Muskingumand Licking rivers, is about fifty-five miles east of Columbus, on the M. V.Division of the P. C. & St. L. and B. & O., and B. Z. & C. and C. & E. Rail-roads. Is a manufacturing and commercial centre, noted for its clay and tilemanufactures. County officer

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