BUCYRUS

bucyrus, a city and the county-seat of crawford county, ohio, u.s.a., on the sandusky river, 62 m. n. of columbus. pop. (1890) 5974; (1900) 6560 (756 foreign-born); (1910) 8122. it is served by the pennsylvania, the toledo, walhonding valley & ohio (pennsylvania system), and the ohio central railways, and by interurban electric lines. the ohio central, of which bucyrus is a division terminal, has shops here. the city lies at an elevation of about 1000 ft. above sea-level, and is surrounded [v.04 p.0679] by a country well adapted to agriculture and stock-raising. among its manufactures are machinery, structural steel, ventilating and heating apparatus, furniture, interior woodwork, ploughs, wagons, carriages, copper products and clay-working machines. bucyrus was first settled in 1817; it was laid out as a town in 1822, was incorporated as a village in 1830, and became a city in 1885. the county-seat was permanently established here in 1830.