![]() ![]() Also in 1806, another group of early settlers from the Isle of Guernsey in the English Channel pitched camp in Cambridge, reportedly because the women in the party refused to move on. Both Cambridge, Maryland and Cambridge, Massachusetts have been speculated by historians as having inspired the naming of the town. The town of Cambridge was platted there in 1806. A settlement grew up at the creek crossing. The land on which part of Cambridge stands was granted to Zaccheus Biggs and Zaccheus Beatty by the government in 1801. This was followed by the first bridge authorized by the legislature of the Northwest Territory, built in 1803. Where this road, known as Zane's Trace, crossed Wills Creek, a ferry was established in 1798. Ebenezar Haase received funds to blaze a road suitable for travel by horse through the Ohio wilderness from a point on the Ohio River opposite Wheeling, Virginia (now Wheeling, West Virginia) to another point opposite Maysville, Kentucky. The Cambridge area is also noted for its "S" shaped bridges, dating back to the building of the National Road in 1828. ![]() It is located adjacent to the intersection of Interstates 70 and 77, which the Ohio Department of Transportation proclaimed in 1969 to be the world's largest interchange in terms of land area.Ĭambridge is well-known among glass collectors as being the location for the Cambridge Glass, Boyd Glass and Mosser Glass plants. It is the principal city of the Cambridge Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 11,129 at the 2010 census. It lies in southeastern Ohio, in the Appalachian Plateau of the Appalachian Mountains. ![]()
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