BOWLING GREEN, a city of Ohio, United States, 2om. S.W. of Toledo; on Federal Highway 25, and served by the Bal timore and Ohio and the New York Central railways ; the county seat of Wood county. The population in 193o was 6,688. It is situated in a rich agricultural region, which abounds in oil and natural gas. There are foundries and machine shops, a large ketchup factory, and plants making rubber balloons and various articles of wood. There is a State normal college (I,000 stu dents). Bowling Green was settled in 1832 ; incorporated as a town in 1855 and as a city in 1904.