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DOVER, a city of Tuscar'awas county, Ohio, U.S.A., on the Tuscarawas river, 82m. S. by E. of Cleveland. It is on Federal highway 21, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsylvania railways and an interurban electric line. The popu lation was 8,ioi in 192o (87% native white) and was 9,716 in 193o by the Federal census. The city lies on a plateau 884ft. above sea-level, commanding diversified views. Iron ore, coal, fire clay and limestone abound in the vicinity. The manufactures include electric irons, sweepers, percolators, fire brick, sewer pipe, pig iron, steel, flour and wire. A town was laid out in 1807. It was on the Ohio and Erie canal (opened 1832) and was formerly called Canal Dover, but "Canal" was dropped in 1915. It was incor porated as a village in 1842, re-incorporated in 1867, and became a city in 1903.

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