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| | History of the City of Lancaster, Ohio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The Lancaster Lateral Canal was acquired by the State of Ohio in 1836, and by 1841, the Hocking Canal had been extended south to Athens. |
 | | Also, Lancaster was home to Thomas Ewing, U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, and organizer and first Secretary of the Interior, Henry Stanberry, Attorney General of the United States and defender of President Andrew Johnson at his impeachment trial, and three Ohio Governors. |
 | | Lancaster is the center of a rich agricultural region principally of swine, dairy, and beef cattle farms. |
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