Editing Cambridge, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[Image:GuernseyCtyCourthouse CambridgeOH.jpg|thumb|left|Guernsey County Courthouse]]
In 1796, Col. Ebenezer Zane 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]]. Where this road, known as [[Zane's Trace]], crossed [[Wills Creek (Ohio)|Wills Creek]], a ferry was established in 1798. This was followed by the first bridge authorized by the legislature of the [[Northwest Territory]], built in 1803. The land on which part of Cambridge stands was granted to Zaccheus Biggs and Zaccheus Beatty by the government in 1801. A settlement grew up 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 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. The county for which Cambridge serves as the county seat was later named in honor 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 massive flooding in late June 1998.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cambridgeglass.org/museum/floodof1998.php|title=National Cambridge Collectors, Inc. - Glass Pass Program|website=www.cambridgeglass.org}}</ref> In 1973, Buds Pub was built.