Show flow Populitlon Moves Westward Nothing Illustrates the marvelous growth of our country more graphical than the rapid Jet steady pace Which I the center ol population In the Unite = r II I Stateshitanowdelnits westward march In 1790 the finical taking the dealt can Swiss the center 01 population wai 23 mile cut Ililtlmore In the upper end ol Chesapeake Day Iletwecn that Urn and 1800 It moved 41 miles or to a rot 18 mile directly west ol llalllmore During the decade which ended wit iSlo the westward movement WAS not to rapid being only 36 mile which located lo-cated the center ol population at that time 40 little northwest by west 01 Washington Iletwecn iSioand 180 It made mr elout strides landing 16 miles north 01 Woodstock VA4 which was 50 mile Irom the rot occupied by the center In 1810 Duilng the decade which ended wll 1830 It moved only 35 little till lklnjC It in a rot 19 mllei west touthweit 01 Moretflcld W V a Hy 1840 It had moved wet by South A distance 055 mile or to a place I 6 miles South ol Clarkivllle W Va lletwecu itvo 1 4 and 1850 another move of II mile was made and tho census rIM all tile Niter yeast mformrd the I If t aJirt 4 He frfl 01 I ullIon U now 13 miles southeast ol t Parkersburg which It I now In the state 01 Wool Irglnla When Hie census of ISo WAS taken It at lound that the center ol population vise at a spot In the middle of the biota river jo miles touh ol Chllllcothe O In 1870It was still In Ohio but had cliOlbe1 out nl the river and moved to i pot 48 miles north from Clnndnnatl Between ISo and 1880 the center ol population passed almost directly through Cincinnati moving west by South and when the census was takenjln tile latter year It WAS located eight mile uthneitol the city above named Between ib8o and Sop It moved Into the llooiler state and ASS found when the tail decennial eensut was taken to be to miles east ol Columbus Ind The greatest distance the center ovrd during any ten year wa be Ieen 1870 and iSSo when traveled 8 miles The least WAS between i7tr anti 180041 tallies |