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Ohio, United States
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Lancaster, city, seat (1800) of Fairfield county, south-central Ohio, U.S., on the Hocking River, about 30 miles (50 km) southeast of Columbus. It was founded (1800) by Ebenezer Zane on land granted to him in payment for blazing Zaneā€™s Trace, a 266-mile (428-km) wilderness road from Wheeling, West Virginia. (then a part of Virginia), to Limestone (now Maysville), Kentucky. The first settlers came over this road in 1798; many of them were from Lancaster, Pa.,...

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