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ship is strictly rural. There are no towns within its borders, and 

 only two country stores. (See fig. 2.) These serve as markets for 

 such produce as butter, eggs, and poultry. A few small towns (not 

 railroad points) lie within close proximity to the township, and some 

 of the farmers do part of their trading there. 



TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 



A secondary line of the B. & O. R. R. extending along the Muskin- 

 gum River from Zanesville to Marietta and Parkersburg and reach- 



FiG. 2. 



-A representative church, schoolhouse, and country store. Palmer Township 

 has three churches, «even schools, and two country stores. 



ing to within 4 miles of the area furnishes railroad facilities for 

 the farmers in the northern part of Palmer Township. Each termi- 

 nus of this line connects with main lines of the B. & O. system. 

 Another railroad through the hill section from Marietta to Palos, 

 thence connecting with other lines to Columbus, reaches to within 

 5 miles of Palmer Township, and had furnished shipping facilities 

 to those farmers living in the southern part until it was abandoned 

 in the fall of 1916. The central part of the township is about 

 equidistant from each of these railroads. 



