Licking County history

The city of Newark was laid out by John Burnet, John Cumming and George Burnet in 1802.

John Stadden was elected first Sheriff in 1808, the year Licking County was created.

The construction of the Ohio Canal began in Licking County on July 04, 1825.

Early manufacturing efforts in Licking County were begun by the Newark Machine Works, established in 1850, which manufactured portable engines and saw mills until the outbreak of the Civil War.

The first railroad into Newark was the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark in 1852.

In 1871, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad headquartered its stops in Newark, making it the largest shops on the route west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Newark, Ohio, Clark & Underwood, printers, 1876.

On July 08, 1910, a public lynching was held on the square in downtown Newark, after the victim was broken out of the county jail by a mob.

Jump up ↑ Hall, L. (1983, October 23). On land where buffaloes once roamed, early settlers founded town of Newark.

In 1999, the per capita income in the county was 26,891 dollars.

It is predominantly rural, with less than two percent of the county’s 687 square miles consisting of urban areas. It was the county’s largest community in 2000.