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Wooster is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Wayne County. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio approximately 50 mi (80 km) SSW of Cleveland, Wooster is noted as the location of The College of Wooster. Wooster was established in 1808 by John Bever, William Henry, and Joseph Larwill, and named after David Wooster, a general in the American Revolutionary War. The population was 24,811 at the 2000 census. The city is the largest in Wayne County, and the center of the Wooster Micropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the United States Census Bureau in 2003). Wooster has the main branch and administrative offices of the Wayne County Public Library.
Wooster is the birthplace of physics Nobel Prize winner and chancellor of Washington University, Arthur Compton and his brother, physicist and president of MIT, Karl Taylor Compton.
Website: www.woosteroh.com/
Wooster is the birthplace of physics Nobel Prize winner and chancellor of Washington University, Arthur Compton and his brother, physicist and president of MIT, Karl Taylor Compton.
Website: www.woosteroh.com/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooster,_Ohio
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Coordinates: 40°48'24"N 81°56'0"W
- Canton, Ohio 43 km
- Mansfield, Ohio 55 km
- Columbus, Ohio 130 km
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 159 km
- Dayton, Ohio 228 km
- Middletown,Ohio 255 km
- Loveland 263 km
- Charleston, West Virginia 267 km
- Roanoke, Virginia 420 km
- Lynchburg, Virginia 437 km
- College of Wooster 0.5 km
- Wooster Country Club 1.8 km
- The Ohio State University ATI 3.3 km
- Wooster Memorial "Spangler" Park 7.8 km
- New Pittsburg, Ohio 14 km
- Jeromesville, Ohio 22 km
- West Salem, Ohio 24 km
- Audubon Wetlands Preserve 28 km
- Polk 28 km
- Montgomery Township 30 km
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