The word Muskingum ( ) derives from a similarly sounding
Delaware
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Native American) word, which some claim to translate as 'Eye of the Elk', but most likely means 'Swampy Ground'.
Muskingum may refer to:
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Muskingum (village)
Muskingum (also known as Conchake) was a Wyandot village in southeastern Ohio from 1747 to 1755. It was an important trade center in the early 1750s, until it was devastated by smallpox in the winter of 1752. The town was repopulated for a short ...
, an 18th-century Native American community
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Muskingum University
Muskingum University is a private university in New Concord, Ohio, United States. Chartered in 1837 as Muskingum College, the institution is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA). New Concord is located in far eastern Muskingum County, ...
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Muskingum County, Ohio
Muskingum County ( ) is a county located in the east-central portion of the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 86,410. Its county seat is Zanesville. Nearly bisected by the Muskingum River, the county name is ba ...
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Muskingum County Speedway
Muskingum County Speedway, located in Zanesville, Ohio
Ohio ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to ...
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Muskingum River
The Muskingum River ( ; ) is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio ...
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Muskingum Island
Muskingum Island ( ) is a long narrow shoal, bar island on the Ohio River in Wood County, West Virginia, Wood County, West Virginia between the towns of Moore Junction, Ohio, Moore Junction, Ohio and Boaz, West Virginia, Boaz, West Virginia. The is ...
, an island in the Ohio River
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Muskingum Township, Ohio (disambiguation) (two different townships)
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