The New International Encyclopædia/Washington Court House

WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE. The county-seat of Fayette County, Ohio, 40 miles southwest of Columbus, on Paint Creek, and on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Baltimore and Ohio, the Ohio Southern, and the Cincinnati and Muskingum Valley railroads (Map: Ohio, C 6). It is in a productive farming country, and manufactures boots and shoes, flour, soap, woolen goods, lumber, etc. Poultry-packing is also an important industry. Population, in 1890, 5742; in 1900, 5751.