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Sells Park
Sells Park, popularly known as Athens Pond, is a public park near Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. Claimed to be "one of Athens’s best hidden treasures", it comprises , and includes Sells Pond (Athens Pond) which is composed of an area of . Accessibility The park can be reached from uptown Athens by traveling on the bike path to the Athens Community Center (Rec Center), crossing East State Street to the Far East Side Neighborhood, and reaching the top of Avon Place. There are two entrances to the top (Sells Pond): a left entrance composed of two meter by two meter concrete tiles, and a right entrance composed of dirt. The left entrance was, prior to 2015, composed of dirt with no wooden steps, while the right entrance contained, prior to 2017, several three-meter-long rectangular wooden steps. Park Trails Sells Park is part of The Athens Trail Network, a network of multi-use trails originating from Sells Park itself maintained by community and university volunteers. Twel ...
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Athens County, Ohio
Athens County is a county in southeastern Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 62,431. Its county seat is Athens. The county was formed in 1805 from Washington County. Because the original state university (Ohio University) was founded there in 1804, the town and the county were named for the ancient center of learning, Athens, Greece. Athens County comprises the Athens, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area. Geography The county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.0%) is water. Athens County is located in the Unglaciated Allegheny Plateau region of Ohio. It features steep, rugged hills, with typical relief of 150 to 400 feet, deeply dissected by stream valleys, many of them remnant from the ancient Teays River drainage system. Most of Athens County is within the Hocking River watershed, with smaller areas in the Shade River and Raccoon Creek watersheds. The Hocking River joins the Ohio River at the unincorporated village of Hockingport in Athens ...
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Ohio University
Ohio University is a Public university, public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confederation and subsequently approved for the territory in 1802 and state in 1804, opening for students in 1809. Ohio University is the oldest university in Ohio and among the oldest public universities in the United States. Ohio University comprises nine campuses, nine undergraduate colleges, its Graduate College, its college of medicine, and its public affairs school, and offers more than 250 areas of undergraduate study as well as certificates, master's, and doctoral degrees. The university is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among List of research universities in the United States#Universities classified as "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high resear ...
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Athens, Ohio
Athens is a city and the county seat of Athens County, Ohio. The population was 23,849 at the 2020 census. Located along the Hocking River within Appalachian Ohio about southeast of Columbus, Athens is best known as the home of Ohio University, a large public research university with an undergraduate and graduate enrollment of more than 21,000 students. It is the principal city of the Athens micropolitan area. Athens is a qualified Tree City USA as recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation. History The first permanent European settlers arrived in Athens in 1797, more than a decade after the United States victory in the American Revolutionary War. In 1800, the town site was first surveyed and plotted and incorporated as a village in 1811. Ohio had become a state in 1803. Ohio University was chartered in 1804, the first public institution of higher learning in the Northwest Territory. Previously part of Washington County, Ohio, Athens County was formed in 1805, nam ...
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Hockhocking Adena Bikeway
The Hockhocking Adena Bikeway, known colloquially as The Bike Path or more formally (but unofficially) as The Athens County Bike Path, is a long bicycle path in Athens County, Ohio, Athens County, Ohio, in the United States. The original section of the path was built on a levee along the Hocking River at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, Athens, on university land. It was gradually expanded and now crosses university land, city land, and county land. The greater part of the path is a rail trail, (a bicycle path built on an abandoned railroad grade). The eastern terminus of the path is near the intersection of East State Street with US-50 on the east side of Athens and its western terminus is in Nelsonville, Ohio, Nelsonville, at the Rocky Brands Factory Outlet at the intersection of Canal Street and Myers Street, one block from the Historic Square Arts District. The last section built was the section connecting the bikeway to Nelsonville. Previously, it terminated at Robbins ...
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Sells Park And Strouds Run Trail Map
Sells may refer to: People * Cato Sells (1859–1948), American politician * Charles Harvey Sells (1889–1978), American politician * Chris Sells (born 1963), American politician * Dan Gillespie Sells (born 1978), British singer-songwriter * Dave Sells (born 1946), American baseball player * David Sells Hurwood (1924–2005), British doctor * Elijah Sells (1814–1897), American military officer, politician and businessman * Elijah Watt Sells (1858-1924), American accountant * Hugh Sells (1922–1978), English cricket player and Royal Air Force officer * Katherine Gillespie Sells, British campaigner * Kieran Sells * Michael Sells (born 1949), American historian and scholar of religion * Mike Sells (born 1945), American politician * Sam R. Sells (1871–1935), American politician * Tommy Lynn Sells (1964–2014), American serial killer * William Sells (1881–1966), British navy officer Places * Sells, Arizona, United States * Sells Park, Ohio, United States Other * Sell ...
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Strouds Run State Park
Strouds Run State Park is a public recreation area abutting the city of Athens in Athens County, Ohio, in the United States. The state park is located primarily in Canaan Township, with a small part in Ames Township. Park boundaries coincide with Athens city limits in several places. The park comprises , and includes Dow Lake, a artificial lake. The park is named after William Stroud who was a share-holder in the Ohio Company of Associates. History The original land for the park was purchased for the Athens State Forest in the 1940s and 1950s. In the late 1950s, construction was started on the Dow Lake Dam, which was completed in 1960, at which point the land became Strouds Run State Park in its entirety. A large area on the west side of the park was formerly land of the Gillett family (Samuel and Charlotte Beach Gillett and their descendants). The family owned well over a thousand acres at one time. The old farmstead seen on the Trace Trail and the "Pioneer Cemetery" are ...
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Riddle State Nature Preserve
Hawk Woods is an old-growth forest located in central Athens County, Ohio, United States, outside the city of Athens. The forest comprises of foothills in the Allegheny Plateau region. Adjacent to Strouds Run State Park, the woods now are included in a state nature preserve named the Dale & Jackie Riddle State Nature Preserve. Riddle State Nature Preserve The preserve is owned and managed by the City of Athens, with the original direction coming from the Athens Conservancy. This Ohio public land was dedicated as a state nature preserve, in part because the Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves donated $50,000 towards the purchase price. The property was purchased from a logging company in 2003 for $550,000. Prior to 2003, the forest had been under private ownership, which kept it isolated from the public for at least 150 years. The preserve is part of the city's east-side Strouds Ridge Preserve project, which to date includes about total. The Athens Conservancy p ...
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Hocking River
The Hocking River (formerly the Hockhocking River) is a right tributary of the Ohio River in southeastern Ohio in the United States. The Hocking flows mostly on the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau, but its headwaters are in a glaciated region. It rises in Bloom Township in Fairfield County and flows generally southeastwardly through Fairfield, Hocking, and Athens counties, through the Hocking Hills region and past the cities of Lancaster, Logan, Nelsonville, Athens and Coolville. It joins the Ohio River at Hockingport. The Hocking's tributaries also drain parts of Perry, Morgan, and Washington Counties. Its name originally derives from a Native American name, roughly "Hokhokken" or "Hokhochen", which meant "bottle-shaped" or "gourd-shaped" and referred to the river's headwaters 7 miles north-west of present-day Lancaster, Ohio. The river begins as a small stream, then immediately goes over a waterfall into a wide gorge. When viewed from above this feature looks like a ...
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Protected Areas Of Athens County, Ohio
Protection is any measure taken to guard a thing against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although the mechanisms for providing protection vary widely, the basic meaning of the term remains the same. This is illustrated by an explanation found in a manual on electrical wiring: Some kind of protection is a characteristic of all life, as living things have evolved at least some protective mechanisms to counter damaging environmental phenomena, such as ultraviolet light. Biological membranes such as bark on trees and skin on animals offer protection from various threats, with skin playing a key role in protecting organisms against pathogens and excessive water loss. Additional structures like scales and hair offer further protection from the elements and from predators, with some animals having features such as spines or camouflage servi ...
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1939 Establishments In Ohio
This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 ** Third Reich *** Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. *** The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. *** The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. ** The rest of the world *** In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. *** First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. *** The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. *** Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. *** Philipp Etter took over as Swi ...
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