1850s
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- 1850 Cedar Hill Cemetery opens
- 1853 The Licking County Fair was moved to the Great Circle Mound.
- 1854 Newark plays host to the Ohio State Fair
- 1854 Cholera epidemic sweeps the county and killing 75 people
- 1857 Newark installed gas lights in homes.
- 1858 The first Hartford Fair in Croton, Ohio
