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Cambridge is a city in and the county chair of Guernsey County, Ohio, United States. It lies in southeastern Ohio, in the Appalachian Plateau of the Appalachian Mountains nearly 75 miles (121 km) east of Columbus and approximately 124 miles (200 km) south of Cleveland. The population was 10,089 at the 2020 census. It is the principal city of the Cambridge micropolitan Place and is located next to the intersection of Interstates 70 and 77.

Cambridge is well known in the course of glass collectors as subconscious the location for the Cambridge Glass, Boyd Glass and Mosser Glass plants. The Cambridge Place is after that noted for its “S” shaped bridges, dating assist to the building of the National Road in 1828.

In 1796, Col. Ebenezer Zane acknowledged funds to blaze a road adequate for travel by horse through the Ohio wilderness from a point upon the Ohio River opposite Wheeling, Virginia (now Wheeling, West Virginia) to another lessening opposite Maysville, Kentucky. Where this road, known as Zane’s Trace, crossed Wills Creek, a ferry was traditional in 1798. This was followed by the first bridge authorized by the legislature of the Northwest Territory, built in 1803. The land on which allowance of Cambridge stands was settled to Zaccheus Biggs and Zaccheus Beatty by the paperwork in 1801. A agreement grew taking place at the creek crossing. The town of Cambridge was platted there in 1806. Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town. Also in 1806, another bureau of to the lead settlers from the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel pitched camp in Cambridge, reportedly because the women in the party refused to fake on. The county for which Cambridge serves as the county seat was progressive named in praise of its many settlers from Guernsey. In 1828, the federally built National Road came through Cambridge. The first railroad arrived in 1854. The Cambridge area experienced enormous flooding in late June 1998.

Cambridge is located along Wills Creek; its tributary Leatherwood Creek flows into Wills Creek in the southern ration of the city.